2 feared dead as transporters clash over ownership of park in Onitsha
TWO persons were feared dead, yesterday in Onitsha and several others sustained serious injuries when rival groups loyal to two transport companies, Uguchukwu and Sons Limited and Mic Merah International Agency, engaged themselves in a free for all over ownership to the controversial Nwugo Motor Park at the Upper Iweka area of the town.
True Federalism: The plots of our governors
The nation’s governors will meet tonight to strategise on their positions in the ongoing constitution amendment exercise being spearheaded by the National Assembly. Their plot is to fend-off the domineering powers of the Federal Government and hammer out how to keep the local governments totally subservient to them.
Who ‘ll probe Nigeria’s failed 2016 Olympic outing?
IT was not surprising that the Federal Government expressed outrage on the performance of the country’s delegation to the 2012 Olympics that recently ended in London.
Alleged rights violation by SARS worries CD
UMUAHIA—THE South East branch of Campaign for Democracy, CD, has expressed concern over what it called “high level human rights violation” by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Awkuzu, Anambra State, and urged the Anambra State Police Commissioner, Mr. Ballah Nasarawa, to wade in and sanitize the place.
8 persons arraigned for drinking Ogogoro in public
EIGHT persons including four women have been arraigned before an Apapa Magistrate court in Lagos, for allegedly drinking local gin (popularly known as Ogogoro) and smoking in an unacceptable manner in the public.
EGCDC commissions 44 projects in Delta
AS part of efforts to develop Warri Kingdom, the Egbema and Gbaramatu Central Development Council, EGCDC, has commissioned no fewer than 44 completed and furnished projects in the communities in Warri South –West and Warri North Local Government Areas of Delta State.
