Borno employs cripples to sweep Maiduguri streets
Borno State government has engaged 30 cripples to sweep the streets of Maiduguri, the state capital, to withdraw physically-challenged persons from street begging, according to the State Environmental Protection Agency, BOSEPA.
3 re-arraigned for defrauding Lagos Speaker of N9.1m
THREE men, who allegedly hacked the Facebook account of Lagos State House of Assembly Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, and defrauded him of N9, 188, 100 million, were yesterday, re-arraigned before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos.
FG exclusive function should be unbundled — Akande
FORMER interim chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Bisi Akande, has said that there is a need to unbundled the exclusive functions of the federal government and share them among the federating units.
Police, other security agencies hold joint counter-terrorism training
IN an effort to sharpen their counter-terrorism skills, the Nigeria Police in partnership with the British High Commission recently had a five-day training programme for chief superintendent of police, deputy superintendent of police and their counterparts in sister security agencies in Zone 9 Police Command, Umuahia.
When mother is away, my uncles take turns raping me—13-yr-old
A 13-year-old girl, yesterday, disclosed how her uncles— Saviour Philip, 35, and Paul Philip, 17—took turns to rape her in their one-room apartment on Olowolagba Street, off Odunsi, Bariga area of Lagos State.
OUR LEGISLATORS’ JUMBO PAY: Fact or Fiction?
The culture of secrecy did not start just yesterday, it has always been there right from the military to the civilian governments. In the military days, the reason why you did not know the extent or the magnitude of corruption that took place was because of secrecy, they didn’t allow you to know anything.
Unanswered questions of the Maina saga and Buhari’s anti-corruption fight
The aura of nepotism surrounding the president already looks like a permanent stain
Jersey Island gives condition for return of $300m Abacha loot
The government of Jersey Island said, yesterday, that the $300 million loot the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, stashed away in the country would not be released to Nigeria if a third party representation was brought into the picture.
Inside dreaded Igwebuike Forest in Imo where people are murdered and buried
YOU must be prepared before going into Igwebuike forest in Awarra, Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State, one of the chief priests in the area, Mr. Okoro Ogbuji, told South-East Voice. Sometime ago, it was the story of a 63-year-old woman, one Mrs. Ogo Omeriji, said to have been kidnapped, murdered and buried in the said Igwebuike forest.
Who works for whom: Understanding the contract between government and Nigerians
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Anambra poll: Arinze urges stakeholders to focus on issues, personalities
A former commissioner in Anambra State, Mr Ken Arinze, has tasked political stakeholders in Anambra State to focus on the issues and personalities in the governorship election, saying there are no Yoruba or Hausa persons involved contrary to the campaign by some politicians.
