Asaba Massacre at 59: Wounds, apologies and a day of forgiveness
59 years after the pogrom that wiped out an estimated 1,000 Asaba men, memories remain raw as apologies, forgiveness and the quest for national closure turn front burners
Reps reject bill to enforce ‘sovereignty belongs to the people’
House of Representatives, Wednesday, ejected a bill seeking to make the fundamental objectives and directive principles of state policy contained in Chapter two of the 1999 constitution enforceable on the government.
‘We need justice’, agitators blow up another Agip facility in Rivers
The new militant group in Rivers State, Bayan-Men, have blown up another oil facility belonging to the Nigeria Agip Oil Company, NAOC, at Obosi area of Omoku, Ogba-Egbema-Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State.
Gunmen kidnap Eze Ndigbo in Ondo
Gunmen have reportedly abducted the Eze Ndigbo of Ifon in the Ose council area of Ondo State, Chief Donatus Okereke.
Who’s replacing retirees, with graduates unemployed for 15 years, Senate ask
The Senate, on Wednesday, expressed worry that some form of fraud was ongoing in the civil service employment scheme, wondering who were replacing retirees and pensioners when graduates have been on the streets for 15 years, jobless.
FG lied; ‘high scale secret employments’ ongoing in civil service — Senate
THE Senate, Wednesday, raised the alarm over what it termed “high scale secret employments” going on the civil service in spite of claims by the Federal Government that it had placed embargo on job placement.
