A SIMPLE dictionary meaning of junta is “a clique (usually military) taking power in a coup d’etat”. A coup is the acquisition of political power other than through the constitutionally prescribed rules.

By Chidi Nkwopara OWERRI—Imo State Police Command has killed three armed kidnappers and paraded over 20 others linked with varying serious crimes, including armed robbery, kidnapping, arson and rape. Speaking to journalists after parading the suspects, the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Aloysius Okorie, also said that all but one of those kidnapped by hoodlums on […]

SENIOR Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies, SSAEAC, weekend, threatened to shut down the power sector of the nation’s economy if the Federal Government refused to pay members monetisation benefits and put on hold the winding up of Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, until all labour related issues were addressed in line with agreement reached by the two parties.

THE Lagos State government yesterday commenced the demolition of thousands of illegal structures and shanties at the notorious Akanimodo and Ajelogo Markets of Mile-12, in Agboyi-Ketu Local Council Development Area, LCDA, located off-Ikorodu Road.

PRESSURES are mounting on acting President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to act decisively. The latest is from Gen Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma, Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Council.

HE Indigenous Shipowners Association of Nigeria ISAN, has threatened to drag the Federal Government to court for allegedly failing to issue weather advise and warning to members to enable them secure and safeguard their vessels from the storm that allegedly damaged and washed ashore over a dozen vessels, recently.

Commissioner of Police in-charge of Explosive Ordinance Disposal, EOD, Unit of the Nigeria Police Force, Mr. Chris Olakpe, weekend, announced that 20 officers and men of the unit will be undergoing a special training on bomb detection, neutralisation and post blast analysis to be sponsored by the Police Attache to the Embassy of France.

OVER 200 people, mostly women and children, were, yesterday, killed in three villages near Shen in Du District of Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State by suspected Fulani herdsmen, on reprisal attacks.

DR. Stanley Macebuh, The Guardian newspaper’s first managing director, died, Sunday, at the National Hospital, Abuja, after a brief illness. He was rushed to the hospital Saturday afternoon.

DR. Stanley Nkwachinekenkwerenneyaemezula Macebuh, who passed on Saturday night, could aptly be tagged the progenitor of what has become known as the intellectual flank of Nigerian journalism. He could not have brought less to a profession in which he inspired many by his profound thoughts and an intellectual fecundity that permeated the media in the past three decades.