Akande assumes office as new Commissioner of police in Cross River
By Ike Uchechukwu The new Cross River State Commisioner of police, Sikiru Kayode Akande has assumed office as the 41st Commisioner to be posted to the Command. This was made known in a press release on Tuesday signed by the Police Public Relations Officer in the state ,PPRO,DSP Irene Ugbo and made available to Vanguard. […]
EndSARS: Edo govt to offset hospital bills of 2 deaf victims, says panel chairperson
Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo has promised to offset the hospital bills of two deaf victims allegedly shot by operatives of the Police and the Army, during the EndSARS protests in Benin. This was disclosed on Monday, by Justice Ada Ehigiamisoe, the Chairperson of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry for victims of SARS and related […]
Bayelsa women-farmers decry damage, threat by herders
By Emem Idio WOMEN of Agudama-Epie community, Yenagoa Local Government Area, Bayelsa State, have complained about incessant destruction of crops by herders that invade their farmlands, uproot cassava and other crops to feed their cows. The women-farmers who called on relevant authorities to come to their aid, regretted that herders usually render their efforts useless […]
Police Sergeant, one other caught in Port Harcourt robbery
RIVERS State Police Command on Sunday confirmed the arrest of one of its officer, Sergeant Ibrahim Odege, for alleged involvement in an armed robbery in Port Harcourt.
Residents yell as sea erodes embankment, houses in Delta community
By Chancel Sunday INDIGENES of Gbekebor community, Burutu Local Government Area, Delta State, have again cried out to the state and federal governments, to as a matter of urgency, come to their aid over ravaging coastal erosion that has threatened the existence of the community for more than three decades. The community leadership made a […]
COVID-19: Edo govt to arrest persons without face masks in public
Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has said that the state government would deploy the over 800 Police constabulary personnel across the state to enforce strict compliance with the state’s regulations to check the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19).
HAWKINS CEMETERY: Strange findings in C’River graveyard where the living, dead co-habit
…We use tombs as eating slabs, snooze on graves —Residents By Emmanuel Unah FOR obvious reason, the palpable fear of burial grounds not just because of the eerie consciousness that it is an abode of the departed but the horror of bumping into death-defying ghosts and dangerous spirits. But the story is different at Calabar, […]
Experts fault re-opening of schools amidst COVID-19 second wave
Govt doesn’t listen to experts – Prof Innocent Ujah It is problem of politics of pressure – Dr Casmir Ifeanyi By Sola Ogundipe, Chioma Obinna & Gabriel Olawale As schools reopened in some states across the country on Monday in the wake of the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Nigeria Medical Association has […]
Storm in Akwa Ibom over murder of UNIUYO student by pastor
…Gabriel allegedly stabbed dead with knife stolen by pastor …Intrigues as House of Assembly tasks CP on proper investigation, prosecution By Chioma Onuegbu The gruesome murder of 23-year-old Gabriel Edward Bassey, a final year student of Civil Engineering, University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, by a supposed pastor of a Pentecostal Church has generated uproar […]
Onunaiju’s misconception about the PTF
RIGHT OF REPLY By Edwin Uhara I READ the article written by Mr. Charles Onunaiju where he maliciously faulted the decision of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 to publish the passport numbers of 100 passengers who flouted the mandatory seven-day post arrival COVID-19 Polymerase Chain Reaction test. If the article was written to rebuke foreign […]
Give youths opportunity to lead, Archbishop Kaigama begs Buhari
By Luminous Jannamike, Abuja Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, Most Revd. Ignatius Kaigama, on Sunday, urged President Muhammadu Buhari to create opportunities for youths to take the leadership positions at all levels of government and economy for the progress of the nation. Kaigama, who made the call during his homily in Abuja, noted that despite […]
