By Godwin Obi At least one person is reportedly in a critical condition after a yet-to-be-identified helicopter shot at a passenger boat along the Port Harcourt – Bonny waterway in Rivers State on Thursday night. An eyewitness told our reporter that the wooden boat was ferrying traders and their goodsContinue Reading

BY GODWIN OBI A former Deputy Director, Department of State Services, Dennis Amachree, has identified politics as a factor hindering security agencies from effectively performing their jobs. Nigeria currently faces myriads of security challenges with banditry activities in the northwest, terrorism in the North-East, militancy in the South-South, IPOB activitiesContinue Reading

BY GODWIN OBI The Police in Katsina State, has confirmed an early morning fresh attack by bandits, on the Dan-Kumeji Village in the Faskari Local Government Area of Katsina State on Friday. The spokesman of the command, Superintendent of Police Gambo Isah, in a telephone conversation with ait.live said thatContinue Reading

By Godwin ObiAll roads leading to the country- home of the National President of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA), Chief Iju Tony Nwabunike, was on Friday 27th August kept wide open, as eminent politicians, customs agents and freight forwarders drawn from the various associations in the shippingContinue Reading

BY GODWIN OBI Ahead of the November 6 governorship election in Anambra State, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed August 30 for the commencement of the continuous voters’ registration. The electoral body disclosed this in a statement issued on Thursday by its Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee,Continue Reading

BY GODWIN OBI Gunmen have freed around 100 pupils kidnapped from an Islamic seminary in Niger State nearly three months ago, the school’s head teacher said on Thursday. The head teacher, Abubakar Alhassan, did not, however, say if any ransom was paid. He did not give any details about howContinue Reading

BY GODWIN OBI Chris Ngige and Femi Falana The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has scolded Human Rights Lawyer and Acting Chairman of the Civil Society Coalition, Alliance For Surviving Covid-19 And Beyond, ASCAB, Femi Falana, for advising members of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, toContinue Reading

By Godwin Obi A forty-six-year-old civil servant, Patrick Markson, reportedly working at the Bayelsa State Ministry of Local Government has killed his wife and himself on Thursday Morning in Yenagoa. The Police in Bayelsa who confirmed the story promised to carry out further investigations. However, sources said, Patrick Markson whoContinue Reading