Benue Police burst car-snatching gang
By Peter Duru MAKURDI — Men of the Benue State Police Command have apprehended a three-man gang who specialises in snatching cars in the country. The suspects who were nabbed at a routine Police check point in Makurdi town are Noah Onoja, a 25-year-old school drop-out; Godwin Aduma, 27, and Augustine Odeh, a 21-years-old security […]
Avoid violence during protest, Minister tells NLC
By Daniel Idonor ABUJA—Minister of Labour and Productivity, Prince Adetokunbo Kayode has appealed to the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC and its affiliates to stay out of trouble by not romancing violence if they must go on with the planned mass demonstration to protest the planned deregulation of the downstream sector and implementation of the Justice […]
Police rescue two kidnapped school children
By Austin Ogwuda ASABA—MEN of Delta State Police Command have successfully rescued two school children kidnapped in Anambra State. State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr. Charles Muka, told reporters that “on 24th of October, 2009, at about 1100 hours, the police at Okpanam nipping point stopped one white Jeep, registration number unknown and noticed […]
Anti-deregulation protest holds in Abuja
By Victor Ahiuma-Young ABUJA — LEADERS of organised labour and civil society yesterday arrived Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) for today’s anti-deregulation mass protest code-named “Mother of all protest,†even as the Senate President sent a special delegation to leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) over the protest which is expected to terminate […]
Soludo’s dad’s kidnappers demand N500m
AWKA — KIDNAPPERS of the 78-year-old father of embattled governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Anambra State, Professor Chukuma Soludo, today, demanded N500 million ransom for the release of the septuagenarian.
Tribunal threatens Ribadu’s arrest
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA—The former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu may soon be arraigned over his alleged failure to declare his personal assets while in office, as the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) which is prosecuting him, yesterday, said it would issue a bench warrant for his arrest, […]
