Monday, 18 November, 2024

Month: October 2021


Kidnapped Nollywood producer and actor, Afam Okereke, has regained his freedom. The Nollywood actor film director was also a former Chairman of Nkanu West Local Government Area of Enugu State. Afam Okereke was kidnapped at Obigbo Rivers Sunday on his Read more…


Demand release of Pius Anyim, others The youth wing of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has asked the Federal Government to stop using the Economic and Financial Crime Commission EFCC to intimidate, harass and embarrass prominent Igbo sons and daughters. The youths Read more…


The Court of Appeal, Port Harcourt Division, has fixed Thursday, October 28, 2021, for ruling on an application brought before it by the embattled national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, seeking to stop the national Read more…


The United Nations (UN) has demanded an explanation on the alleged abduction, torture and detention of the leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, from the Kenyan and Nigerian governments. It was gathered that the UN Read more…


Overhaul security landscape ahead of Nov 6 polls The Inspector General of Police(IGP), Usman Alkali Baba, has announced the deployment of the Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG), Joseph Egbunike, as the coordinator of the security component for the November Read more…


Benue State Governor, on Tuesday, signed into law the amended Community Vigilante bill now to be known as Community Volunteer Guards. The amended law now permits, personnel of the new Community Volunteer Guards to bear weapons that are permissible by Read more…


The President General Igbo community in Akwa Ibom state, Elder Sunday Orie has appealed to the Federal Government not to dismiss the threat by the Indigenous People of Biafra concerning the Anambra elections as a non-issue. IPOB had threatened to Read more…


Members of South-West Governors Forum, on Tuesday, met in Lagos State to discuss insecurity, investment, and other issues of interest to the region. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu hosted his colleagues at the State House, three days after gunmen attacked a prison Read more…


Russia has struggled to hit herd immunity and shield its citizens from Covid-19, despite hopes the pandemic would blow through, because of variants and hesitance to sign up for jabs, one of the country’s top biologists has said. According to Read more…


Russia’s premier intelligence agency has launched another campaign to pierce thousands of U.S. government, corporate and think-tank computer networks, Microsoft officials and cybersecurity experts warned Sunday, only months after President Joe Biden imposed sanctions on Moscow in response to a Read more…


Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, on Monday, maintained his stance that open grazing was outdated and should not be encouraged. He made the declaration at the 27th Nigerian Economic Summit held in Abuja with the theme: “Securing Our Future: Read more…


Twenty-four hours after resumption of train services by the Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) following Thursday’s explosion on the Abuja-Kaduna rail line, the Kaduna terminal station at Rigasa, has witnessed low passenger turnout. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that Read more…