To make the police responsive, pro-active and effective in the face of a breakdown of internal security, the Senate Committee on Constitution Amendment is considering a proposal that will tinker with the structure of the police. The committee resorted to adjustment of the structure because the members failed to agree on the proposal for state […]
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Southeast governors yesterday urged residents to ignore the sit-at-home directive by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The group had urged Ndigbo to stay home to protest the arrest and detention of its leader Nnamdi Kanu. It said the 6am to 6pm shutdown would be observed every Monday “until Kanu is freed”. But there appears […]
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Enugu State Police Command has warned trouble makers and enemies of public peace to steer clear of the state or face the full wrath of the law. The command also reiterated its resolve to collaborate with security agencies and peace-loving citizens to adequately provide public security and safety, enforce and maintain law and order in the state. This is […]
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Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami SAN, has dismissed reports he disobeyed the directives of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on All Progressives Congress (APC) State Congresses. On the directive of President Muhammadu Buhari, Osinbajo had convened a meeting of senior lawyers within the APC on July 30 with a view […]
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Palpable anxiety prevails in South Eastern states over the sit-at-home order handed down to the people of the South-East by the Indigenous People of Biafra as the pro-Biafra group and IPOB leader’s brother disagreed on the directive. IPOB, had penultimate week, threatened a weekly lockdown of the South-East geopolitical zone from Monday, August 9, 2021 […]
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Detectives in Ogun State have arrested a mother of two, Joy Sunday, for allegedly pouring hot water on the face of another woman, Justina Ameh, during a church session. The hot water reportedly scalded Ameh’s face. It was learnt that some worshipers tried to keep the assailant from causing further harm. Sunday was furious that […]
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Tears flowed freely last week as friends and colleagues of the late Tosin Osatuyi, a final year student of Yabatech College Education, allegedly killed in a fight, narrated how he was murdered.The Civil Engineering (HND 2) student, popularly known as Moore, was allegedly murdered while celebrating his final examinations on July 28. Deputy Registrar of […]
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Elder statesman and Leader of Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Chief Edwin Clark Some threaten peace, others urge calm The people of the Niger Delta region had hoped the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), would assuage their burden, having borne pains of oil exploration and exploitation for many years, to give a commensurate share due to […]
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NLC says slight product price adjustment won’t improve electricity supply Issues Dec deadline for N15 energy tariff reduction The Federal Government has announced an N250 billion intervention fund to expand gas utilisation in the country. Although the most populous black nation has over 206 trillion standard cubic feet of gas reserves, product utilisation remains dismal, […]
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The Department of State Services (DSS) went beyond its brief to deny, as it did recently, some media organisations from covering the trial in Abuja of Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). And to boot, the security body did not deem it proper to explain its selection of only 10 […]
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