Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has dissolved the State Executive Council. Mr Kelvin Ebiri, the special assistant to the governor on media, who announced this in a statement on Tuesday said the dissolution of the cabinet was with immediate effect. He added that the Chief of Staff to the governor and his Senior Special Assistant […]
The Federal Government has appointed Anamekwe Chukwunyere Nwabuoku to oversee the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF). The announcement was conveyed in a memo dated May 20, 2022, and signed by the Permanent Secretary (Finance) Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning. It comes about a week after the arrest on May […]
The Sokoto state Police Command has declared the suspects in murder of Deborah Samuel wanted for culpable homicide. The Prime suspects who claimed the murder of Deborah Samuel on a viral video according to the Police was on the run to evade arrest. In a statement made available to journalists in Sokoto by the Command […]
The Kano State Police Command has said a gas cylinder, and not a bomb, exploded in the Sabon Gari area of the state on Tuesday. Samaila Shuaibu Diko, Commissioner of Police, said the explosion occurred at a welding shop adjacent to the primary school on Aba Road. He said four persons died in the explosion […]
There has been an explosion on Aba Road in the Sabon Gari area of Fagge Local Government in Kano, leaving several people injured with some feared killed. Details of the blast and its cause are still sketchy but visuals from the scene show that it affected some buildings and left several injured including school children. […]
About 200 ex-military men who fought on the side of the Nigerian Government during the Nigeria-Biafran War, on Wednesday, staged a protest to register their anger over the non-payment of their pensions in the past 44 years. The aged men and women, armed with placards with various inscriptions to show their agonies, called on the […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed that all members of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) running for elective offices to submit their letters of resignation on or before Monday the 16th of May, 2022. The Minister of information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, disclosed this on Wednesday after the Federal Executive Council meeting. Those affected are Ministers […]
Brazilian defender, Marcelo who previously played for Lyon was demoted to the club’s reserve team for ‘farting in the dressing room and laughing about it with his teammates’, according to reports. The fallout with the club’s hierachy over the incident led to his exit from the club as he now plies his trade with Ligue […]
A 74-year old man, Bassey Inyang, has been handed over to the police for alleged sexual abuse of a 12-year old girl in Calabar. The suspect, who resides at 14 Waddell Street, Mbukpa in Calabar, was whisked away by men of the Anti-Cult and Kidnapping Squad of the Cross River Police Command following an alarm […]
The lead Counsel to the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, on Tuesday said the next court outing of the detained IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, will be on 18 May, 2022 at the Federal High Court in Abuja. Ejiofor disclosed this to newsmen in Owerri, after the IPOB legal team had visited the […]
