Alleged ‘King of kidnappers’: Kokori women in nude march for Kelvin
EVOCATIVE of the “Aba Women’s riots of 1929” in which thousands of women in the then provinces of Calabar and Owerri organized a massive revolution against the policies of the British colonial administrators, hundreds of women from Kokori in Ethiope-East Local Government Area of Delta State, joined by youths, last week, carried out a civil disobedience against government, soldiers on “internal security operation” in the troubled area, their monarch and notable elite.
Uduaghan to DSS: Identify Kelvin’s gang members
DELTA State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, told state Directors of Department of State Service, DSS, in the South-South region, yesterday, that the remnants of the criminal gang of arrested Delta kidnap kingpin, Kelvin Oniarah, still need to be identified and uprooted from their strongholds.
Court to hear suit to void PDP convention Monday
The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, yesterday, fixed Monday to commence hearing on a suit seeking to nullify the special convention that was held by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Abuja on August 31.
Lessons abound …. for those willing to learn
‘I have been to morgues. There is no siren there. There is no posing in the morgue. There are no celebrities there. You put people under six feet and you realise that cars and houses do not fit in. I have come to understand that when people die, nobody has jumped into the vault to say bury me along.
Solomon Lar lived in a rented house – Aide
NATIONAL Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur and other members of the National Working Committee, NWC were yesterday told that the Bobo Street, off Gana Street, Maitama, Abuja was a rented apartment where the late pioneer Chairman of PDP, Chief Solomon Lar lived until his death.
Anambra guber:Do they want to rope in Igwe Achebe?
Traditional institutions are supposed to play a neutral role in politics but one cannot say same of Nigerian traditional institutions. Now it appears they are trying to rope in the Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Alfred Achebe into the politics of the up-coming Anambra guber election.
