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National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Nasarawa State Command has arrested two men on the Keffi – Nasarawa Road for being in possession of illegal firearm. Mr Peter Onche-Odaudu, Nasarawa State Commander of the agency made this known during a news conference in Lafia on Friday. According to Onche-Odaudu, operatives from the Keffi Area Command of the agency on motorised patrol on Keffi-Nasarawa Road on Oct. 28, 2023, stopped a commercial vehicle on routine stop and search. “During the search, the two suspects, Abdulraman Sani, aged 20 and Ibrahim Usman, aged 20, were arrested while on their way to Nasarawa-Toto.…
•By Halimah Olamie Amidst recent allegations from business man, Aliko Dangote, BUA Group has responded to several claims levelled against its management in a 7 Page-Editorial by Dangote. According to a comprehensive statement signed by the management on Friday, with a sense of responsibility, expressing dismay at what they perceive as baseless blackmail. The statement reflected on the group’s agelong history of hostilities, difficulties, and alleged hindrances from the Dangote Group. BUA group explained that in August 1991, when Nigeria was facing a sugar scarcity, BUA had sugar stock available for sale. Dangote approached BUA to buy sugar, but…
Wants Police CP, Area Commander, Hope Uzodinma’s Aide Prosecuted By Kamil Opeyemi The Nigeria Labour Congress on Friday gave a November 8 deadline for the Federal Government to meet its demands over the Wednesday attacks on its President, Joe Ajaero or risk a nationwide shutdown. This was as the congress demanded the prosecution of the Commissioner of Police in Imo State, Mohammed Barde and the Special Adviser to Governor Hope Uzodima on Special Duties, Nwaneri Chinasa for the roles they allegedly played in the attacks on its president, Mr. Joe Ajaero. Addressing journalists in Abuja on Friday, Deputy President of…
By Temitope Ajayi It has become a pattern for some individuals, CSOs and a section of the media to pick one or two line items every budget cycle for sensational headlines, deliberately ignoring context in their reporting. The public that should benefit from good journalism, which should primarily educate and adequately inform, is left confused and miseducated due to mischaracterisation of issues and misrepresentation of facts. The trending issues on social media since yesterday are two items in the 2023 supplementary budget. One is the provision for a presidential yacht in the supplementary budget by the Navy and the other…
By Halimah Olamide Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers state and Minister of the FCT, Nyesome Wike, have arrived at the presidential Villa, Abuja apparently to honour summons by President Bola Tinubu over the crisis that has engulfed the state. NPO Reported earlier that hoodlums bombed a section of the State House of Assembly late Sunday night marking a peak of the breakdown of relationship between Wike and the Governor. While walking to the assembly complex to inspect the level of damage on Monday, security men had shot in the direction of the Governor and his entourage while water tanker was…
By Halimah Olamide A prominent leader in Rivers State Anabs Sara-Igbe who is the National Coordinator of the South-South Leadership Forum, on Tuesday accused Minister of the FCT, Nyesom Wike of caging Governor Sim Fubara since he assumed office on May 29 this year. He said what happened on Monday was a divine way to liberate Rivers state from the alleged grip of Wike since he left office. Speaking on a live television programme on Arise TV on Tuesday, Sara-Igbe, said Wike turned Fubara into his play thing which he tosses here and there. According to him, while Wike nominated…
Protocol. Gentlemen of the Press. Someone asked me what I would do if I lost my election petition appeal at the Supreme Court. In response, I said that as long as Nigeria wins, the struggle would have been worth the while. By that, I meant that the bigger loss would not be mine but Nigeria’s if the Supreme Court legitimizes illegality, including forgery, identity theft, and perjury. If the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land, implies by its judgment that crime is good and should be rewarded, then Nigeria has lost and the country is doomed irrespective of…
Insists Tinubu Present Forged Academic Records Accuses INEC of Complicity Lists Implications for Future Elections By Kamil Opeyemi Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubabar, has said that history will vindicate him on the decision of the Supreme Court which dismissed his petition filed against the victory of President Bola Tinubu. Atiku, at a press conference on Monday said he had known before that should the apex court endorse the victory of Tinubu, the loss would not be his but that of Nigerians in all. Atiku also said that the inteRpretation. of his loss at the supreme…
By Kamil Opeyemi The Governor of Rivers state, Siminalayi Fubara, has alleged being shot at by policemen in the state capital on Monday. A video seen by the NPO Reports showed that the governor, with some of his aides and security aides, were walking to the House of Assembly complex which was set on fire late Sunday night. The video also showed that the policemen used water canons to pour water in the direction of the governor as he moved undaunted towards the Assembly complex. The water canon belongs to the police with the inscription Nigeria Police Force on it.…
By Halimah Olamide There is tension in PortHarcourt, the River state capital as the House of Assembly has been burnt down in a strange inferno that happened late Sunday. Hoodlums had invaded the complex at about 9:45pm which is a stone throw to the Headquarters of the Police command in the state. Before the hoodlums were dislodged, the hoodlums had set the main chamber of the Assembly complex on fire. It was also gathered that the hoodlums had used hand grenades to cause an explosion in the building before the fire started. This claim could not be independently verified. Emergency…