Gunmen have attack the Owerri Correctional Prison, Imo State, freeing over 1500 inmates.The incident according to the Punch newspaper, happened in the early hours of Monday. The gunmen also razed the Imo State Police Command headquarters located in Owerri and burnt almost all the vehicles parked at the command headquarters. The newspaper reports that the…
Non-indigene staff of the Taraba Publishing Company Limited, have dragged the company to the Jos Division of th National Industrial Court over 77 months salary arrears totaling N73.3m In their statement of claim, the workers alleged that 18 of them who are not from Taraba state were denied salaries since the company stopped operation in…
If a religious leader is afraid to say what is right, what else can his silence mean but that he has taken flight? Hiding behind a wall of silence is like taking flight at the approach of the wolf. Pope St. Gregory the Great (540–604 AD) 1: Easter Sunday is here again. But first, let…
After 25 days in captivity, parents of the 39 abducted students of Federal College of Forestry Mechanization, Afaka, Kaduna, have vowed to negotiate the release of their children with the bandits. Their decision follows, declarations by the Kaduna state government that it will not negotiate with or pay ransom to bandits. The students who were…
The Presidency has reacted to the Easter message by the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Most Rev. Matthew Kukah, saying the he did not speak like man of God. Kukah had in his Easter message, lamented that the federal government spends billions in rehabilitating so called repentant terrorists while their victims are left to wallow in…
Kaduna state governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has declared that any bandits operating in the state will “most likely end up dead”. The governor spoke on Sunday while featuring on Channels Television programme, “Politics Today.” According to him, the solution to this problem of banditry and kidnapping is to intensify military operations from the air or the…
