Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Moves by forces within the Enugu state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to sack the state governor, Sullivan Chime, collapsed Monday morning as a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja declined jurisdiction to interfere in the matter. The suit was instituted by one of the aspirants who contested the [...]
The Lagos State Government at the weekend urged the Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, to stop spreading falsehood, noting that sacking doctors who irresponsibly abandoned patients in the hospitals had nothing to do with a ploy to “decimate” the medical profession. In a press statement signed by the Head of Service, Prince Adesegun Ogunlewe, the State [...]
Security forces found weapons and bomb-making stocks during a house raid Saturday in the violence-plagued central Nigerian city of Jos, police said. “There was a bomb factory that was discovered in Rikkos,” police spokesman Samuel Dabai told AFP, referring to a district in Jos. Army and police officers leading the raid discovered rifles, ammunition, chemicals [...]
The police in Lagos on Saturday arrested one Asiribo Baba, 40, for allegedly shooting a bricklayer who attempted to rape his daughter. Inspector Femi Martins said that Baba shot Ifeanyi Arinze, 29, who was making blocks at a building site in Agbara, Lagos. He said investigations revealed that Arinze climbed the fence of Baba’s residence [...]
Following the death of a commuter bus driver, Isaac Onaiwu after he was allegedly beaten by soldiers from the Army School of Strategy and Transport (S&T), Benin, which was widely reported by national newspapers on Friday, the Commandant of the School, Brigadier–General Emmanuel Nienge on Friday evening denied the report, saying the late driver was [...]
In a quest to strengthen the war against corrupt practices and ensure greater transparency and accountability in the oil, gas and mining sectors, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI, have agreed to forge closer collaboration. This resolve was made on Friday during a courtesy visit by [...]
An accident victim, who escaped from the hospital in Badagry, western Nigeria, after N4.09 million was found in his car, has been linked to a robbery in Kogi State, central Nigeria. And the police said he has been arrested. The new Commissioner of Police in the state, Malam Mohammed Katsina, disclosed this while briefing newsmen [...]
