Ohanaeze calls for judicial inquiry into P-H IPOB killings
The national leadership of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, yesterday, denounced the killing of defenceless members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, as well as the charging of survivors to court for treason by security agents in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.
CENTREP to FG: Beware of merchants camouflaging as N-Delta leaders
CENTRE for the Vulnerable and Underprivileged, CENTREP, a rights group in Delta State, has cautioned the Federal Government to be cautious of those it called Niger Delta merchants masquerading as leaders of the region.
Railway frustration forces Dangote to assemble truck — Amaechi
Minister of Transportation, Mr Chibuike Amaechi, yesterday, said that the decision of Aliko Dangote to set up a $100 million trucks assembly plant in Lagos was out of frustration due to the country’s railway projects delay.
Photos: Fayose, Pastor Johnson Suleiman during the botched DSS arrest
Ekiti State Governor and Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’s Forum, Mr Ayodele Fayose, in the early morning on Wednesday foiled an attempt by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) from arresting Apostle Johnson Suleiman of The Omega Fire Ministries World wide in Ado Ekiti.
Delta host communities threaten to disrupt NNPC, NPDC operations
RESIDENTS of Ekogbene, Egrangbene, Abadama and Kalafiogbene communities, Burutu Local Government Area, Delta State, yesterday, threatened to disrupt operations of Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NPDC, a subsidiary of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, for allegedly lifting oil clandestinely from a divested oil well, OML 62, in their area.
PDP Crisis: Court sends pro-Fayose’s exco in Ekiti packing
A faction of the Peoples Democratic Party’s State Working Committee loyal to Governor Ayodele Fayose has been sent packing by the Federal High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti.
How over 300 pupils in Imo escaped building collapse
A PHILANTHROPIST, Mr Maxwell Ugwu, has donated a re-modelled primary school building to accommodate 300 pupils at the Ntueke in Ideato Local Government Area of Imo State.
Foreign software, dangerous to national security – ISPON
THE Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, ISPON, has condemned Nigeria’s dependency on imported software, saying that it is dangerous both to the public and private sectors.
Northern govs set to tackle insecurity
Northern States’ Governors’ Forum, yesterday, said every issue of insecurity in the North would be tackled as one entity, just as it also resolved to inject life into some of its moribund companies and improve the socio-economic well-being of the people of the region.
Re: Verification: Is PTAD playing politics with pensioners’ income?
DURING a visit to her office in Abuja by the Executive Secretary of the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate, PTAD, Mrs. Sharon Ikeazor, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, was greeted with the news that the nation’s pension scheme will now be extended to Nigerians in the Diaspora who had worked diligently and had served their country but relocated to different corners of the world after retirement.
ULC warns against blackmail by marketers, PPPRA
THE United Labour Congress, ULC, yesterday, said Nigerians should not be blackmailed by the Petroleum Products, Pricing and Regulatory Agency, PPPRA and oil marketers, by saying the current pump price of fuel was no longer realistic.
