Armed youths invade Delta monarch’s palace, 4 injured
GUN-WEILDING youths of Agbarho community, Ughelli South Local Government Area, Delta State, laid siege to the palace of their monarch, King Samson Oghugunwa, raging over the manner of deployment of the community’s vigilante by the traditional ruler.
Revenue leakages: Reps summon 5 oil firms
House of Representatives’ Special Committee probing the revenue leakages and activities of Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, weekend, unearthed over $8 billion accrued from sales of gas warehoused by one of the oil companies operating in Nigeria.
Fund NAFDAC to enforce MAS on drug products, Adeyeye tells NASS
The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration & Control, NAFDAC, has urged the National Assembly to fund the agency towards realisation of the enforcement of the Mobile Authentication Scheme, MAS, on drug products so as to reduce counterfeiting.
Innoson heads to Supreme Court as Appeal Court rules GTB appeal can be heard
Chairman of Innoson Group, Chief Dr Innocent Chukwuma has reacted to Friday’s July 13th 2018 ruling of the Enugu Division of the Court of Appeal that Guaranty Trust Bank appeal can be heard and thereby neglecting the fact that the same Court had given a ruling on 9th December 2014 that GTBank cannot be heard in any appeal whatsoever until it complies with its ruling.
We are helping parents know if their child is born with Sickle Cell Disease – Dr Alexis Thompson
Nigeria currently has the world’s largest burden of Sickle Cell Disease ,SCD. Approximately 150,000 Nigerian babies are born with the disorder every year while approximately four million Nigerians are carriers of the sickle cell trait.
‘PDP NWC’ll decide on Kashamu this week’
National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus has said that the National Working Committee, NWC of the party would meet and take a decision on the appropriate action against Ogun East Senatorial District Senator,Buruji Kashamu, this week.
2019: Wike advocates consensus northern PDP presidential candidate
GOVERNOR Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has urged Northern leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to pick a consensus presidential candidate to satiate the party’s determination to dethrone the All Progressives Congress Federal Government in 2019.
Gunmen kill, burn 4 policemen in Edo
FOUR policemen attached to Sabongida-Ora Division were, yesterday, killed by unknown persons at the road intersection between Oke-Ora and Avbiosi in Owan West Local Government Area of Edo State.
UN envoy cautions Israel, Palestine against war
UN envoy on the Middle East Peace Process, Mr Nickolay Mladenov, has urged Israelis and Palestinians to pull back from the brink of a confrontation “that nobody wants and everybody will lose’’.
Falana urges govs to request urgent meeting of NPC
SENIOR Advocate of Nigeria, SAN and human rights activists, Mr. Femi Falana, weekend called on state governors to request President Muhammadu Buhari to convene an urgent meeting of the Nigeria Police Council, NPC, to find solution to worsening security in the country, especially the ceaseless killings of innocent Nigerians by killer herdsmen and other armed bandits.
Herdsmen: August 31 quit notice, sacrosanct—Igbo group
AN Igbo group, Voice from the East, VEAST, after a crucial meeting in Enugu, weekend, maintained that their earlier quit notice to herdsmen to vacate Igboland on or before August 31st, 2018, remained unchanged. They insisted that should the herdsmen fail to quit after the deadline, they might be forced to take drastic action.
