NDLEA intercepts cocaine concealed in mortar, backpack bound for China, Italy
…Arrests suspected drug dealer in Rivers, intercepts alleged bandits’ drug supplier in Zamfara By Kingsley Omonobi ABUJA — Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted consignments of cocaine concealed in a local mortar and the false bottom of a backpack, allegedly prepared for shipment to China and Italy through a logistics […]
Rivers’ AC chieftain commends Amaechi
PORT HARCOURT – Action Congress leader in Rivers State, Prince Tonye Princewill, has commended Governor Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, for sponsoring thousands of Muslims in the state on holy pilgrimage to Mecca. This comes as the AC chieftain felicitated with Muslims on the celebration of this year’s Eid el Fitr, and urged Christians and Muslims to […]
Nyako tasks politicians on free and fair elections
By Umar Yusuf YOLA - Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State said the defeat of the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in two House of Assembly re-run elections recently by its archrival, the AC, was an indication that the state government does not interfere with the conduct of elections in whatever way. He observed that […]
Militant leader surrenders arms
Yenagoa – An unknown militant leader operating on Nun River in Akassa kingdom yesterday surrendered 15 arms and 308 mixed ammunition to the state chapter of the Presidential Amnesty Implementation Committee. However, most of the repentant militants who were accommodated at the Imiringi rehabilitation centre, which is also the Federal Government Girls College, have deserted […]
Graft: CNPP calls for Aondoakaa’s sack
By Kingsley Omonobi The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP weekend, threatened to mobilise Nigerians to protest the continued stay of Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Mr Michael Aondoakaa if President Umar Musa Yar’Adua fails to sack him over his blockage of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC from doing […]
ASUU strike: FUTY VC urges stakeholders to intervene
By Umar Yusuf Yola – The Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Yola, Professor Usman Bashir, has tasked elder statesmen and stakeholders in the education sector in the country, to urgently intervene in the current face-off between the Federal Government and university-based unions, to avert a total collapse of the university system in […]
