By Vincent Ujumadu

AWKA— THE Civil Liberties Organisation, CLO, in Anambra State has called for full investigations into the recent arrest of one Mr. Martin Anokwara over alleged smuggling of about 100,000 ammunitions and a gun valued at over N6 Million into the country.

Describing the incident as a national embarrassment, especially when the importer [...]

By  Chidi Nkwopara

OWERRI—An Imo State High Court sitting in Owerri, has ordered the immediate reinstatement of Citizen Eric Otuonye, as Director, Planning, Research and Statistics in the Secondary Education Management Board, SEMB, Owerri.

Trial judge in the matter, Justice Nonyerem Okoronkwo, also ordered that  full salaries, allowances, benefits and other entitlements be paid to [...]

By  Chidi Nkwopara

OWERRI—Imo State Government has approved the immediate conversion of the Teachers Training College, Egbema, to a full-fledged Skills Acquisition Centre.

Confirming this to Vanguard  in an interview in Owerri, the Commissioner for Lands, Survey and Urban Planning, Mr. Levi Oguike, also expressed regret that previous administrations allowed the structures in the school [...]

By Simon Ebegbulem

BENIN—HUNDREDS of mobile policemen yesterday sealed up the premises of Owan West local government council secretariat in Edo State following a court judgment which ordered the council to pay past political office holders in the council their severance allowances and arrears accrued since 1999.

The High Court in Sabongida Ora had delivered [...]

By Victor Ahiuma-Young

BENIN—THE President- General of the Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies (SSAEAC), Comrade Bede Opara, has called on workers of Benin Distribution Zone of Power Holding Company and Transmission Company of Nigeria to further step up their productivity and service delivery.

Comrade Opara, who was in Benin, Edo State, for [...]

A Non-governmental Organisation, Exodus 2000 Millennium Association, has raised an alarm over an imminent crisis between the families of the late Chief Abraham Kpanawa and Chief N. Ganwa, both of Eemuu compound in Ban-Ogoi community, Ogoni, in Rivers State.

The group alleged that youths of Eemuu compound, who settled in Ban-Ogoi community were disloyal to [...]

By Emma Arubi

WARRI—HUNDREDS of Itsekiri, Ijaw and Urhobo natives in Warri metropolis yesterday staged a peaceful protest against the management of Product and Pipeline Marketing Company (PPMC), a subsidiary of NNPC, for non-payment of compensation.

They also said they were protesting against the company’s failure to provide  relief materials to them, following last [...]

By  Austin Ogwuda

ASABA—UNDP team leader from Geneva, New York and South African, Mr.  Christopher Nuttal, yesterday at a forum in Asaba, said Delta State government has set the pace in the global actions on climate change by being the first in the country to formulate a policy to mitigate and adapt to its devastating [...]

By Jimitota Onoyume

PORT HARCOURT—   SPECULATIONS that the ten percent equity proposed in the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, for oil communities in the Niger Delta would tear the communities apart have been described as misplaced.

Speaking at a round table organized by Emerald Energy Centre of Petroleum Economics, Policy and Strategic Studies, at the Institute [...]

By Jimitota Onoyume

PORT HARCOURT—A police sergeant was shot dead last Tuesday around Circular road in Port Harcourt by a gang of four armed robbers.

Confirming the development to Vanguard, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Mrs. Rita Abbey, said the armed robbers disappeared with the rifle of the deceased police officer.

She gave the [...]