Plateau state governor, Caleb Mutfwang, has described the N307 billion debt profile he inherited from the immediate past administration in the state as intimidating and worrisome. A statement by the spokesman to the governor, Gyang Bere said Mutfwang spoke while receiving reports from the Committee on a Four-Year Strategic Development Blueprint for Plateau State and…
At the beginning of this dispensation, Igbo politicians made a spectacle of themselves in the Nigerian senate. Within the span of 4 years, the senate had four senate presidents including Evans Enwerem, Chuba Okadigbo, Pius Anyim. You could argue that whoever wanted to oust any Igbo Senate President had more than willing hands among the…
The Plateau State Police Command has disclosed that 96 people were killed while 221 houses were set ablaze during Christmas Eve attacks on communities in Bokkos and Barkin Ladi Local Government Areas of the state. The Plateau state police commissioner, Okoro Alawari, disclosed this on Tuesday in a statement signed by Alfred Alabo, the command’s…
The Nigerian army on Saturday, announced the dismissals of two soldiers-John Gabriel and Adamu Gideon, allegedly involved in the killing of Goni Aisami, an Islamic cleric in Yobe state. The acting commanding officer in charge of army’s 241 Reece battalion in Nguru, Lt. Col. Ibrahim Osabo, told journalists that a joint board of inquiry set…
The Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST), has clamped down on unlicensed courier operators in Kaduna state. Many offices of the illegal operators were sealed off on Thursday by an Enforcement team headed by Shonde Dotun, NIPOST General Manager, Courier and Logistics Regulatory Department (CLRD). Speaking in an interview, Dotun said the activities of unlicensed courier, express delivery,…
The Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, has ordered the posting and redeployment of 40 senior police officers comprising 14 Assistant Inspectors-General of Police and 26 Commissioners of Police to various commands and formations in the country. Force Headquarters said in a statement that the exercise was part of the “mandate to ensure professionally competent,…
