NAF Crew Freed as Emergency Landing in Burkina Faso Sparks Diplomatic Row In a moment of potential crisis, 11 Nigerian Air Force (NAF) personnel have been released and cleared for immediate return home after being briefly detained in Bobo-Dioulasso, southwestern Burkina Faso. Their detention followed the emergency landing of a NAF C-130 transport aircraft, an…
Bloody Sunday: Awka Boils On Fire As Gunmen Attack Police Division, INEC Office There’s an uneasy calm in Awka, the capital of Anambra State as gunmen invaded B Division police station and the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC on Sunday night. Many police officers are feared dead from the attack which witnesses…
Enugu Police Recover Two Stolen Vehicles, Arrest Suspected Car Thief in Yuletide Operations The Enugu State Police Command has intensified its yuletide security operations, recording fresh successes with the recovery of two stolen vehicles and the arrest of a suspected car thief in separate operations within and outside the state. Police operatives attached to the…
Bauchi Govt Alleges Political Witch-Hunt as EFCC Drags Officials, Targets Governor The Bauchi State Government has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of engaging in a politically motivated witch-hunt, abuse of prosecutorial powers and actions capable of undermining constitutional order, following the arrest, detention and prosecution of senior officials of the state. In…
Supreme Court strikes out PDP states’ Suit on Rivers Emergency; Affirms Presidential Powers In a landmark judgment on Monday, the Supreme Court of Nigeria struck out a suit filed by Adamawa and ten other Peoples Democratic Party-led states challenging the constitutionality of the state of emergency declared in Rivers State, in a decision delivered in…
NCPC Boss Urges Christian Pilgrims To Live Christ-Centred Life By Celestine Toruka The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), Bishop Stephen Adegbite, has emphasized the importance of living a Christ-centered life during the Jerusalem Pilgrim award ceremony in Nazareth, Israel for the Fourth batch of Christian pilgrims currently in the holy land….
*COVID-19 Not Disease of the Cities, Rich, Nkanu East Council Warns Communities* The Nkanu East Local Government Committee on COVID-19 Pandemic, has dismissed what it termed misinformation that coronavirus was a disease for the rich and big cities. The Committee said the COVID-19 pandemic could infect anybody, insisting that the only way to stay free…
GOV.MBAH PROMISES EQUAL TREATMENT TO ALL RESIDENTS AS MUSLIMS CELEBRATE EID-EL KABIR ENUGU STATE, DR PETER MBAH, ON WEDNESDAY PAID SALLAH VISITS TO THE MOSLEM COMMUNITY IN ENUGU STATE AS PART OF THE ACTIVITIES TO MARK EID-EL KABIR CELEBRATION CLICK ON THE LINK HEREIN FOR FULL TV NEWS
NDLEA Nabs Brazil Returnee With Cocaine, Launches Manhunt For Ex-Beauty Queen Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have apprehended one Udechukwu Ekene Theophilus, a Brazil returnee, at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. Udechukwu ingested 60 wraps of cocaine, totaling 1.279 kilograms, on a flight from Sao Paulo, Brazil. This was made known…
Mbah Appoints New Commissioners, Reconstitutes Boards in Enugu Governor of Enugu State, Dr Peter Mbah, has approved the appointment of new commissioners, board chairmen, executive secretaries and other senior officials across key agencies of the state government. The appointments were announced in a statement issued on Wednesday by the Secretary to the State Government (SSG),…
