Oil and gas big boy, Prince Tonye Princewill, has expressed doubts in the highly publicised fight between Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State and Nyesom Wike. It is no news that Amaechi and his former Chief of Staff, Wike, who later became a Minister, have been at loggerheads. The two former friends have traded words…
Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State has charged governorship aspirants in the State to desist from engaging in divisive actions that are capable of breaching the peace of the state and urged them to be truthful. The Governor gave the charge Friday in Asaba during the swearing-in ceremony of the elected Chairmen of Ndokwa East…
boko haram According to BBC Hausa Service, members of the dreadful Boko Haram group have attacked Chibok town in Borno State again after they first attacked the quiet town in April 2014. At the April 15 invasion of the town, the insurgents kidnapped over 200 students of the Government Girls Secondary School, GGSS, Chibok, Borno…
An explosive device has gone off in Kano, SaharaReporters reports. The bomb blast happened near a filling station in Kano, the online news medium added. It occurred on Friday evening just when some residents of the city were returning from the day’s activities. It was gathered that the incident took place along Maiduguri road, opposite…
The Nigeria Police has said henceforth, vigilante groups in the country would be screened and their activities monitored. This information was contained in a press statement issued in Abuja on Thursday by the Force spokesman, Emmanuel Ojukwu. The police image-maker disclosed that the Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba, directed that an officer be appointed…
The United States government has reacted to allegation made by its Nigerian counterpart that it refused to help fight the scourge of terrorism in the country (Nigeria). Since 2009, a terrorist group called Boko Haram has unleashed terror on communities in the north eastern region of Nigeria. Their deadly attacks were intensified in 2011 after…
Few days after a military jet forcefully went down in Yola, Adamawa State, another helicopter belonging to the military has crashed-landed in the same city. On Monday, a small plane believed to belong to the Nigerian Air Force on surveillance crashed in Damare in Girei local government area of the state. It was conveying military…
An agent of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the June 21 governorship election in Ekiti State, Peter Alabi, has been accused of snatching a ballot box during the polls by the police. The alleged ballot box snatching happened at Ayedun Ekiti in Ikole local government area of the state. At the Justice Mohammed Siraju-led…