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Lawmaker representing Badagry constituency in the House of Representatives, Babatunde Hunpe, on Sunday urged residents to remain calm over ongoing Joint Border Security Exercise in the area. Hunpe made the appeal in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) following complaints by his constituents over the restriction of movements at Seme border ordered…
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has requested the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abukabar Malami (SAN), to develop and adopt public registers for corrupt state governors and other high-ranking public officials charged with and convicted of grand corruption since the return of democracy in 1999. The request was contained in…
One of the reported kidnap victims in Enugu last Thursday has been found by the operatives of the anti -kidnap team of the Enugu Police Command. According to the police spokesman, Superintendent Ebere Amaraizu, the “victim”, Kosisochukwu Anioma, 14, confessed that she was never kidnapped but faked it in order to meet her school boyfriend…
Akoko residents in the Northern part of Ondo state have charged the state government to establish an agency that would be solely responsible for rural roads in the state. They noted that the call became necessary due to large volume of rural roads neglect in Akoko area of the state This development, it was said…
•I came to Lagos for better living condition—Suspect•I didn’t know selling stolen phone is a crime—Suspect By Evelyn Usman Residents of Odutola street, Odo Oko –Oba in Agege area of Lagos state will never forget in a hurry the harrowing experience they had on July 24, 2019, when men of the underworld visited them, uninvited….
In order to mark the International day for the remembrance of the slave trade and its abolition, President Muhammadu Buhari has written a well furnished article on slave trade, giving instances of its modern existence and called for action. President Muhammadu Buhari In his write-up published in The Washington Post, Buhari condemned the maltreatment of…
By Ifeanyi Okolie A 26-year-old housemaid, Franker Amaha, has been arrested by operatives of Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, for stealing the sum of N1.6million in foreign currencies from her employer, six hours after she was employed. The Cross River State born suspect was said to have approached an agent for housemaid job…
By Evelyn Usman It is no longer news that Nigeria, being a mono-economy nation, depends solely on revenue generated from oil for her economic survival. With territorial water of 12 nautical miles from the shoreline and an Exclusive Economic Zone, EZZ of 200 nautical miles from her territorial water, the country, is also strategically located…
It’s no longer news that the scourge of unemployment in the land is largely the reason Nigeria is now infamously tagged the poverty capital of the world. For a country embarrassingly endowed with material resources and a population that ought to provide a ready market to absorb the skills of her citizens; Nigerians over the…
Sources have revealed to Punch that South-east governors and some Igbo leaders are afraid of travelling abroad, owing to the threat issued by the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Nnamdi Kanu with South East governors in Enugu Kanu had asked his group to be vigilant and attack any…