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Police in Akwa Ibom State said their  anti-child theft Unit has arrested one Dr. Victor Onongha, a medical doctor, for allegedly selling a child. Dr Onongha, attached to the University of Calabar Teaching hospital, was arrested alongside a laboratory scientist, Hope Offor, and 15 others. The command, in a statement yesterday, said a five-month-old baby was recovered from the suspects. ... Read More »

The academia was the last place one would expect any stage performance from a depression script. The country is on its kneels begging to return to its previous life. And then ASUU informs that it would not suspend its strike despite the payment of salaries hitherto withheld by the federal government. ASUU insists that the federal government is not doing ... Read More »

Former Lagos State Commissioner for Public Transportation Chief Lanre Razak said on Monday that efforts of President Muhammadu Buhari and Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to contain the deadly Covid-19 deserved commendation, not condemnation. Razak, a member of the Lagos State All Progressives Congress (APC) Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC), slammed the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for blaming the President for the spread ... Read More »

The Public Accounts Committee set up by Imo House of Assembly said Tuesday that the immediate past governor of Imo State, Emeka Ihedioha cannot stop the House from carrying out its over sight functions including investigating allegation of missing N19.63 billion local government fund. He said that the committee functions were backed by the constitution and the rules of the ... Read More »

The immediate past Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside has condemned in strong terms the demolition of two hotels in Rivers State by Governor Nyesom Wike over alleged violation of an Executive Order. Peterside said Wike had so far developed into a full-blown dictator, insisting that the latest action of the governor was ... Read More »

160 Nigerians stranded in the United States owing to the COVID-19 pandemic have arrived the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. The first batch of the stranded Nigerians arrived around 11:05am on Sunday. Among the evacuees were eight infants. They arrived aboard an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 787 aircraft under the special flight arrangements by the Federal Government for nationals stranded abroad. ... Read More »

Former Imo State Governor Emeka Ihedioha has asked an Owerri High Court to stop the House of Assembly from probing him for allegedly mismanaging N19.63billion council funds. The state Auditor-General for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs had issued an interim audit report detailing how N19.63b fraudulently disappeared from the Local Government accounts between May and December 31, 2019. Apparently worried ... Read More »

The Economic And Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) has said it was ready for fresh and immediate re-trial of the former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu. The Supreme Court has quashed the judgement that convicted and sentenced Kalu to 12- year imprisonment on the grounds that the constitution did not permit a judge elevated to a Higher Court to ... Read More »

A PROBE of alleged “reckless” spending of N40billion by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Interim Management Committee (IMC) was launched by the National Assembly on Tuesday. The Senate and the House of Representatives set up separate ad-hoc committees to investigate the allegation. The IMC is supervising a forensic audit of the NDDC as ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari. The ... Read More »

Founder of Daar Communications Plc, owners of Raypower FM and Africa International Television (AIT), Chief Raymond Dokpesi, has tested positive for COVID-19. His daughter-in-law and three grandchildren as well as four other relations also tested positive. One of his sons, Dokpesi Jnr, had been confirmed positive for the virus and admitted to an Isolation Centre. It is believed that the ... Read More »