Amnesty International Nigeria (AIN) has accused Cross River State and the Federal Government of collaborating to manipulate the criminal justice system to unlawfully keep Agba Jalingo behind bars. The organisation, which on November 20, 2019, declared Jalingo, alongside other activists, ...
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Governor Okowa inaugurates 700-capacity hostel at NYSC camp in Isele-Uku
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has inaugurated a 720-capacity hostel for National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members at the Permanent Orientation Camp in Issele-Uku while assuring NYSC authorities of the state government’s continued support to the scheme. The governor, who recalled the ...
Read More »Delta approves pensioners’ harmonised rights, N800m compensation for KIP land
Delta State Executive Council (Exco) has approved the Harmonised Rights of Pensioners, to ensure that retirees from Delta Civil Service live comfortably. It also approved more than N800 million as compensation for the land that would host Kwale Industrial Park ...
Read More »Group flays rising insecurity in Edo, lauds Obaseki’s development strides
Edo United for Homeland Empowerment has expressed worry over the deteriorating security situation in Edo State, saying incidences of kidnapping, cult-related killings and political thuggery have assumed an alarming proportion. The group, in a statement by its president, Frank Ekhator, ...
Read More »Urhobo Progress Union insists on true federalism, resource control
The Urhobo Progress Union (UPU) has insisted that it still stands with the 16-point agenda of the South-South leaders, which its President-General, Olorogun Moses Taiga said, favours restructuring based on true federalism. He said Nigeria had three regions, but the ...
Read More »Herdsmen raid Delta community, kill one, abduct girl, demand N10m ransom
Herdsmen have reportedly killed an unidentified man and kidnapped a 17-year daughter of a teacher at Azagba Mixed Secondary School in Isele-Azagba, Aniocha South Council Area of Delta State. Consequently, the community’s vigilance group has been combing the entire area ...
Read More »Fashola, Arase, Banire canvass community policing, high tech to combat crimes
Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola and former Inspector General of Police (IGP), Solomon Arase have canvassed community policing and installation of high-tech security devices in strategic locations to combat crimes and insecurity in the country. They argued that ...
Read More »Abacha’s loot was oil proceeds from N’Delta, says Clark, wants fund invested in region’s infrastructure development
National leader of the Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark has declared that the $308 million recently recovered Abacha loot were proceeds of oil and gas produced in the Niger Delta. He, therefore, maintained that the funds should ...
Read More »Kaduna Governor Nasir El-Rufai revokes C-of-O of late Sani Abacha’s property
Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has revoked the Certificate of Occupancy (C-of-O) of the demolished Durbar Hotel, belonging to the family of late former Military Head of State, General Sani Abacha. The property is located along the General Muhammadu ...
Read More »Akwa Ibom ready to provide infrastructure for Court of Appeal, says commissioner
Akwa Ibom State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Uwemedimo Nwoko, has declared that the state is ready to provide the needed infrastructure for the takeoff of the Uyo division of the Court of Appeal. He made the assertion as ...
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