Cross River state governor, Prof. Ben Ayade, has sacked four commissioners and five special advisers in his cabinet. Ayade who was elected for two terms on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), had on Thursday last week, defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The sacking of was announced in a statement…
A former judge of Enugu State High Court, Stanley Nnaji has been killed by gunmen in Enugu, the state capital. He was said to have been shot severally beside the Enugu Diagnostics Centre, by Ebeano Tunnel, after he was blocked and dragged out of his Mercedes Benz Jeep. The Enugu state police commissioner, Mohammed Aliyu…
The Imo state police command said the killers of Ahmed Gulak, former political aide to ex President Goodluck Jonathan, had been “neutralized.” Gulak was killed on Sunday by gunmen in Owerri, the Imo state capital on his way to the airport to catch a flight to Abuja. Spokesman of the Imo state police command, Bala Elkana,…
Eleven of the children abducted from an Islamiyya school in Tegina, Rafi LGA of Niger state have been released. Mary Noel-Berje, spokesperson to the Niger state governor, said in a statement that the bandits released the children who could not walk because they were too small. The bandits had invaded the school on Sunday and…
A former Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Prof. Usman Yusuf asked the federal government to go after the bandits who abducted students of the Greenfield University, Kaduna and recovered the N180m paid by parents for the release of the students. The 17 students including a staff of the university were released…
Another office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was set ablaze on Sunday in Njaba Local Government Area of Imo state by unknown persons. The commission in a statement, by its spokesman, Mr. Festus Okoye, condemned the attacked on its offices. Okoye said, the building was substantially burnt down, along with electoral materials,…
