BY CHRISTIAN NWOKOCHA Report by the Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) revealed that Okuneye Idris Olanrewaju, fondly called Bobrisky, allegedly spent only three weeks of her sentence in prison, just as the rest of her prison terms were spent in an unknown location Recall that Justice Abimbola Awogboro of the Federal High Court in Lagos […]
BY CHRISTIAN NWOKOCHA Calabar residents, living next to hotels in Cross River State capital, have raised alarm over alleged rape of girls between 12 and 15 years on a daily basis. Accusing fingers pointed at the hotels located in Nkese Effiong Street, next to the Federal Correctional Centre in the Afokang area of Calabar. Residents […]
Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, on Monday convened an emergency meeting, perhaps to discuss the arrest of its National President, Joe Ajaero. Department of State Services, DSS earlier in the day arrested Ajaero at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja while on his way to the United Kingdom to attend the Trade Union Congress, TUC, of […]
The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, has resigned from his position with immediate effect. In a statement issued by the Presidency on Saturday, Ngelale said he had submitted a memo to the Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, informing him of his plan to proceed on […]
The Julius Abure-led Labour Party has disowned the meeting summoned by Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, where Former Minister Nenadi Usman emerged as the chairman of a 29-man caretaker committee. Otti had called for the stakeholders meeting in Umuahia to address the crisis rocking the party’s leadership. The meeting produced Usman as chairman and Senator […]
The Federal Government has denied reports, that the Ministry of Petroleum Resources instructed the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) to sell fuel at ₦1,000 per litre. In a statement signed by Nnemaka Okafor, the Special Adviser, Media and Communication to the Minister for Petroleum Resources (Oil), the government dismissed the claims as baseless and […]
The leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) says President Bola Tinubu has betrayed the movement, and by extension all Nigerians with the fresh hike in petrol price and its scarcity across the country. Joe Ajaero, President of NLC, who stated this in reaction to the ongoing confusion regarding price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) […]
Igbo National Council (INC) Worldwide recently listed about 98 security checkpoints allegedly, existing in the five states of the South East geo-political zone. The group’s alleging fingers pointed at the direction of security operatives, accusing them of being responsible for extortion of money from motorists, incessant harassment of citizens and unwanted distance trekking of commuters […]
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) recently revealed that 24,025 persons are missing in Nigeria, and her analysis indicated that more of the missing persons come from the North East of the country. The group also said that over ten years of Boko Haram terror in the North East was responsible for displaced persons, […]
BY CHRISTIAN NWOKOCHA Inhabitants of Owerri, the state capital of Imo State, have resorted to trekking distances, lamenting the continuous rise in the pump price of premium motor spirit to N1000, leading to transportation cost to a minimum of N400 per drop. As at press time, some commercial bus drivers, particularly the Keke bus drivers […]
