50 killed in DR Congo mine collapse
At least 50 people were killed after a gold mine collapsed in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, local authorities said on Saturday. The accident occurred on Friday in the town of Kamituga in South Kivu Province, following days of heavy rain. The cause of the landslide is currently under investigation. Provincial […]
Blackout in Rivers as protesters shutdown power station
Some irate Rivers youths have shutdown the Afam transmission station, causing total blackout in Port Harcourt, the state capital, and its environs. The youths were protesting against the alleged inability by the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHED) to provide steady electricity at no cost to its host communities. Consequently, the Afam youths in Oyibo […]
COVID-19: Benue meets stakeholders ahead of schools reopening
By Peter Duru, Makurdi Benue state government has convened a meeting of stakeholders in the education sector to discuss the modalities for the reopening of schools in the state after the COVID-19 total lockdown. Addressing the gathering yesterday in Makurdi, the Commissioner for Education, Prof. Dennis Ityavyar said the meeting was to enable the government […]
Rig Edo, Ondo elections and face wrath of God, Secondus warns APC
… A vote for Jegede is a vote for restructuring – Govs Makinde, Tambuwal By Dayo Johnson NATIONAL Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Prince Uche Secondus has warned the ruling All Progressive Congress against rigging the Edo and Ondo state elections fixed for September 19 and October 10 this year to avoid the wrath […]
Murder of Shell staff: Speedy execution of court judgement will ease my pains – Father of deceased
…Says my house help & a female tenant sold my son to death …Regrets deceased remains never found till day …As court sentences 5 to die by hanging By Egufe Yafugborhi & Davies Iheamnachor On Tuesday, September 8, 2020, as the Hon Justice George Omereji of the High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, sentenced […]
NAFDAC moves to stop alcoholic drinks in sachets, small bottles
…laments high consumption by Nigerians By Chioma Obinna The National Agency for Food Administration and Control, NAFDAC, this weekend expressed worry over the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages in sachets and small volume glass and Poly-Ethylene Terephthalate (PET) bottles. The Agency in a press statement signed by the Director General of the Agency , […]
