Month: July 2017

  • Oba Ewuare Frown On  Police Indiscriminate Arrest

    Oba Ewuare Frown On Police Indiscriminate Arrest

    By Ikhili Monday EBALU, Benin City The Oba of Benin Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo Oba Ewuare 11 has frown at the indiscriminate arrest of persons in Benin kingdom by the Nigeria police over land matters This came on the heels of series of complains by members of various villages, armlets towns including Ebo village…

  • Legion Seeks Artificial Limbs For Amputee Members

    Legion Seeks Artificial Limbs For Amputee Members

    By Steve Oni, Ilorin The Nigeria Legion Corp of Commissionaires has made a passionate appeal to the three tiers of government as well as well-meaning Nigerians to come to the aid of 28 ex-service men who were in dire need of synthetic artificial limbs due to injuries they suffered while serving their fatherland. The Commandant…

  • Gov Ahmed Charges FG On Community Policing

    Gov Ahmed Charges FG On Community Policing

    By Steve Oni, Ilorin The Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, has identified community policing as an effective and efficient means of tackling various security challenges in the country. The governor, while receiving the new Kwara state Commissioner of Police, Lawan Ado, at Government House, Ilorin, proffered community policing as a feasible option in the…

  • Sokoto- Badadry Highway Long Over Due – Reps Member

    Sokoto- Badadry Highway Long Over Due – Reps Member

    By Najem Francis, Sokoto The former speaker of Sokoto State House of Assembly and one-time acting governor of the state, Dr. Abdullahi Balarabe Salame have said that the construction of a short-cut road from Sokoto to Badagry in Lagos state was long overdue. Dr. Salame who now represents Gwadabawa/Illela federal constituency in the House of…

  • Maitama Sule: A Patriot, Social Crusader, Exits the Stage- Ekweremadu

    Maitama Sule: A Patriot, Social Crusader, Exits the Stage- Ekweremadu

    …Dogara mourns too By Aaron Ossai The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has expressed deep grief over the passing on of Nigeria’s former Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) and Minister of National Guidance, Alhaji Maitama Sule. Ekweremadu, who paid glowing tribute to the late politician, described the death as a…

  • Dangote And Arewa Youths’ Uncouth Ranting

    Dangote And Arewa Youths’ Uncouth Ranting

    By Okanga Agila Madness has no defined pattern. To insist on orderliness in insanity is asking for the impossible or the Biblical camel passing through the eye of a needle. I also know that personal idiosyncrasies cannot be garbed in general conviction for every person. What has got me thinking is the insistence of Northern…

  • Family Of Missing Mother Send ” SOS” To Police

    Family Of Missing Mother Send ” SOS” To Police

    By Ikhili Monday EBALU, Benin City The family of Arabomen in Edenu near Irrua , Esan  Central local government of Edo state, have sent Save Our Soul to the Inspector General of Police over their missing mother, Mrs Veronica Eromosele . The son Joseph Arabomen 28 years old,  said they have been waiting for their…

  • Libel: Court Slams N4 Billion On Sahara Reporters

    Libel: Court Slams N4 Billion On Sahara Reporters

    By Steve Oni, Ilorin An Ilorin High Court presided over by Justice Adeyinka Oyinloye has slammed a N4 billion judgment against the publisher of the popular online newspaper, Sahara Reporters, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, over series of stories alleged to have been published by the medium against Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki. The judgment affected stories…

  • Kwara Communal Clash: Four Feared Dead

    Kwara Communal Clash: Four Feared Dead

    By Steve Oni, Ilorin Four people, including a university graduate, were feared dead on Thursday in a bloody clash between two neighbouring communities, Ilofa and Odo-Owa, in Oke-Ero Local Government Area of Kwara state, while scores who sustained gunshot injuries were said to have been rushed to an undisclosed hospital for treatment. Also, in the…

  • 5,000-Unit Housing Project another Milestone by Umahi Administration – DUNAETA

    By Aaron Ossai The 5,000-unit mega city housing project in Ebonyi State being bankrolled by the Africa Nations Development Programme (ANDP) has been described as yet another milestone by the administration of Governor Dave Nweze Umahi. Commending Umahi for attracting the project, the David Umahi Nweze Akubaraoha Ebonyi Transformation Agenda (DUNAETA) noted that the feat…