Benue: Alia focused on long-term development, not palliatives, supporter says
ABUJA — A supporter of Benue State Governor Hyacinth Alia, Tagher Tagher Wan U Tiv, popularly known as Baba Atsar Gundu, has defended the governor’s development approach, saying the administration is prioritising long-term economic empowerment over dependence on palliatives. In a statement made available to journalists on Friday, Tagher said Governor Alia’s philosophy was centred […]
Court jails college staff for six months
In a related development, Justice A. N. Nwankwo of the High Court in Ebonyi State has discharged and acquitted Mr. Sunday Awol Adom of all the 19 count charges filed against him and two others.
FG destroys Nigeria-Biafra war bombs in Enugu
By Tony Edike ENUGU—ABOUT 183 different types of unexploded explosives recovered from nine states affected by the Nigerian – Biafran Civil War were yesterday detonated by the Ministry of Defence, 39 years after the war ended.
Gunmen abduct Nomagbon Pharmacy MD
It was further gathered that about two persons were rushed to an undisclosed hospital as a result of the injuries they sustained in the pandemonium that followed the sporadic shooting in the area.
Security Council seat: UN right in stopping Nigeria —IZON Forum
And it was these that forced the people out of frustration to adopt diverse forms of struggle, including violence exhibited in the forms of vandalization of oil pipelines and facilities, kidnapping of oil workers, hostage taking and engaging in a military warfare with the military deployed to protect oil facilities.
PDP denies plot to sack Obi
By Vincent Ujumadu AWKA—THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said, yesterday, that the issue of impeachment of Governor Peter Obi was never discussed at last week’s meeting of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) with members of the Anambra State House of Assembly in Abuja. National leadership of the party had summoned the 30 PDP Anambra […]
