Новости за 05.08.2016

Fidelis Soriwei and Everest Amaefule Five security operatives, a storekeeper and an accomplice have been arrested for alleged diversion of 9,000 kilogrammes of high calibre explosives and over 16,420 pieces of detonators in the Niger Delta. The National Security Adviser, Maj.-Gen. Mohammed Monguno (retd.), said that investigation conducted into the incessant attacks on oil facilities […]

Niyi Odebode John Ameh, Olalekan Adetayo, Eniola Akinkuotu and Leke Baiyewu  A former Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Mr. Abdulmumin Jibrin, says at least 250 out of the 360 members of the House have signed a petition calling for the probe and removal of the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara. He added that […]

Armstrong Bakam, Bauchi The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps on Thursday said it had arrested five people suspected to be dealing in adulterated fertilizer. The Commandant of the NSCDC in Bauchi State, Ibrahim Raji, stated this while briefing newsmen at the Command’s headquarters in Bauchi. He disclosed that the arrest was made at Gudum […]

Enyioha Opara, Minna No fewer than five persons were feared killed and two others injured when some soldiers clashed with some villagers at Kpaidna village in the Bosso Local Government Area of Niger State in the early hours of Thursday. Also four vehicles belonging to the Nigerian Army were burnt and destroyed in the milieu. […]

Alexander Okere, Benin Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has exonerated the state government from the failure of the local government councils to pay the salaries of their workers, saying that it cannot be responsible for their woes. Oshiomhole stated this during a meeting with the national leadership of the Nigerian Union of Local Government […]

Ovie Okpare, Warri Gunmen suspected to be armed robbers, on Thursday, attacked the Delta State Government House Annex, Warri, when members of the Delta State Waterways Security Committee were holding a meeting, killing a driver attached to the annex.  The incident, sources told our correspondent, occurred at 11.12am on Thursday amid sporadic gunshots. It was […]

Friday Amobi, Port Harcourt GUNMEN on Wednesday night killed three mobile policemen in Choba community, Obio/Akpor Local government Area of Rivers State. The gunmen also kidnapped two brothers, who were suspected to be their target, during the attack. The PUNCH gathered that the hoodlums had earlier attacked a new boutique in the area, located opposite […]

Ovie Okpare, Warri The Niger Delta Avengers on Thursday accused President Muhammadu Buhari of being the only Nigerian against calls for the nation’s restructuring. The group also said the recent bombardments of some of its members in Arepo community of Lagos/Ogun communities was unprofessional. In a statement issued by the spokesman for the group, Mudoch […]

Eniola Akinkuotu and Friday Amobi The Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, says President Muhammadu Buhari has saved Nigeria from economic crisis and prevented the economy from getting worse than it would have been. Mohammed said this at the All Nigerian Editors Conference 2016 in Port Harcourt on Thursday, according to a […]

Ramon Oladimeji The new Boko Haram leader, Abu Masab Al-Barnawi, says Christians in Nigeria will be the new target of the sect’s attacks, vowing that the sect will kill all Christians and “blow up every church that we are able to reach.” Al-Barnawi was the spokesman for the fundamentalist sect until August 3 when he […]

Tunde Odesola Indications emerged on Thursday night that the Peoples Democratic Party had zoned its national chairmanship to the South-West even as it zoned the deputy national chairmanship to the South-South. A reliable source confided in our correspondent that the zoning was done at the Rivers State Government House, Port Harcourt, where the PDP governors […]

Toluwani Eniola The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has faulted a poll by the African Leadership Magazine which rated Governor Akinwunmi Ambode as the best performing governor in the country. The Lagos PDP said the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, and his Ondo State counterpart, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, had performed better than […]