We’ve been living as nomads for 30 years, Aggah villagers cry out By Davies Iheamnachor AGGAH—PRIOR to the arrival of Nigerian Agip Oil Company, NAOC Plc , in  the rural Aggah clan in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area, Rivers State, in the 60s to carry out oil exploration activities, the people, largely farmers and fishermen, lived […]

It described the rumour that Fanta and Sprite were unsafe for consumption as untrue and unfounded

Nnewi—No fewer than 300 market women and men mostly traders who deal in perishables at Ezeiweka Awada, Idemili North Local Government Area, Anambra state, yesterday took to the major roads in Onitsha to protest alleged epileptic power supply and exorbitant billing by Enugu Electricity Distribution company, EEDC.

MEMBERS of the Ad Hoc Committee drawn from the 12 Ukpum Ete villages in Ikot Abasi Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, inaugurated to oversee the controversial 330KVA Ikot Ekpene-Ikot Abasi Transmission Line Project, being executed by National Integrated Power Project, NIPP and Niger Delta Power Holding Company Limited, have raised the alarm that some fraudulent community leaders were hoodwinking youths to terrorise them for refusing to accept bribes.

OIL-rich Akwa Ibom State has of late been in the eye of a raging storm occasioned by escalating cult and communal wars and even kidnappings across the state. In the unfolding scenario, each section of the state seems to be faced with its own form of simultaneously occuring social menace.