OKEKE: Court admits weapons, as judge hands off case
An Onitsha High Court in Anambra State, presided over by Justice Chudi Nwankwo, yesterday, transferred the kidnap case preferred against three accused persons, Kelechi Okafor, Anthony Ifeanyi Okafor and Alexander Onyinanya, to the Administrative Judge of Onitsha High court for reassignment.
Kutigi extends confab by 6 weeks
CHAIRMAN of the national conference holding in Abuja, Justice Idris Kutigi, has extended the ongoing confab by six weeks. With this development, the conference is to come to a close on July 31, 2014 against the earlier June 19, 2014 it was scheduled to last.
Delta commissioner raises alarm over mass absenteeism by teachers
DELTA State Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Prof. Patrick Muoboghare, has decried what he described as intolerable mass absenteeism of primary and secondary school teachers from classrooms.
26 Delta Assembly staff sacked for alleged certificate forgery
TWENTY-SIX employees of Delta State House of Assembly and the state House of Assembly Service Commission, have been sacked for allegedly parading forged educational and professional certificates.
Amnesty International slams Lagos over Badia evictees’ compensation
AMNESTY International has declared the Resettlement Action Plan (RAP), developed by the Lagos state government for the 2, 252 evicted residents of Badia East, Apapa-Iganmu Local Government, as an ineffective remedy for the human rights violations suffered by the victims as inadequate.
Sambo expresses FG’s readiness to partner Nigerians in Diaspora on devt
The Vice President Namadi Sambo, yesterday, in Riyadh, the capital city of Saudi Arabia, expressed the readiness of the President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration to partner with Nigerians in Diaspora to bring development to the country
Lagos: Return of night markets, roadside traders
Lagos has long been known as the undisputed commercial capital of Nigeria. The scale of commercial activities is such that you find all manner of outlets for business transactions at every nook and cranny of the heavily populated metropolis.
DSS HQ shoot-out: IYC calls for overhaul of security agencies
The Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, worldwide, has described Sunday’s security breach at the headquarters of Department of State Security, DSS, by members of the Boko Hram sect during which 21 persons were reportedly killed and two operatives injured, as a case of sabotage and called for a massive overhaul of security agencies in the country.
Yahya Jammeh: Lessons in Pan-Africanism
AT the infamous Nigerian centenary celebration in the nation’s capital, the now famous speech of the Gambian President Yahya Jammeh, stole the show at the International Conference Centre, ICC), Abuja, venue of the Centenary lecture. Mostly, the value of the speech was in its condemnation of the senseless killings of Nigerian citizens in northern Nigeria.
Confab: Rwanda warns delegates against break-up threat
ABUJA — As the ongoing National Conference continues today, the High Commissioner of Rwanda to Nigeria, Joseph Habineza, has warned delegates to desist from act that could worsen the country’s security situation.
Litigating Gas Flaring in the U.S
THE history of crude oil production in Nigeria informs us that the Shell Oil Company was the first to discover oil in commercial quantity in Nigeria.
