By Our Reporter The Cross River State Government in a bid to stop the menace of illegal checkpoints and tolls, has begun a massive crackdown on such collections across the state. The Special Adviser to the Governor on Tolls Collection, Mr Bassey Ita Edet, who led a monitoring and inspection delegation to the Northern Part…
Multiple explosions were on Tuesday reported at the gas processing plant operated by the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) at Gbarain, Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa. The gas plant feeds the Nigerian Liquified Natural Gas (NLNG) export terminal in Bonny Island, Rivers. Speaking to journalists on Tuesday evening, a community source said…
By Mark Eneng Today, 14th May, we celebrate the birthday of a political Colossus, an iconoclast of great quintessence, Hon. Oko Sunday Ebeku a.k.a OTOLO. As a leader who combines traditional political tactics and modern strategic engagement, OTOLO has carved his name on the historical, political ceramics of his Okuku Ward and State at large….
The Nigeria Women Football League (NWFL) has announced Bayelsa State as the host of the 2023/2024 NWFL Premiership Super Six. The highly-anticipated NWFL Premiership title championship is scheduled to run from Thursday 16th to Sunday 26th May 2024 in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. Bayelsa was confirmed as host by the NWFL on Tuesday following a review…
The Nigerian Army on Tuesday, 14th May 2024, carried out a free medical outreach in Belegete, a border community with Cameroon in the Obanliku Local Government Area of Cross River. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the outreach is part of the army’s non-kinetic effort in communities, NAN also reports that services carried…
The Maiduguri Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday, 13th May 2024, arraigned Babakura Muhammad Nur and Kaltum Mustapha for criminal misappropriation to the tune of N12,950,000 (Twelve Million, Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira only). The duos were arraigned separately before Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High…
The Fourth Prosecution Witness, PW4, Bitrus Sambo Bako in the trial of Kassam Kopte and Yakubu Zwalnan, former Chairman and Secretary of the University of Jos (UNIJOS) Non-Academic Staff Union of Education and Associated Institutions respectively on Tuesday, 14th May 2024, narrated before Justice S.P. Gang of the Plateau State High Court, Jos how the defendants lured union members into fraudulent land deals…
A pro-lifer, Lauren Handy, has been sentenced to nearly 5 years in prison for “blockading” a Washington abortion clinic in 2020. After she was indicted, police said they found 5 fetuses in her Washinton home. Why? The provenance of those 115 fetuses is bizarre: the group claims several activists (including Handy) encountered a driver from…
By Anietie Akpan Champions, Nigerian will begin their WAFU B U17 Championship title defence at this year’s edition of the competition on May 15 in Accra, Ghana. The Golden Eaglets, five-time champions of the world, swept aside every opposition before them to achieve glory in another Ghanaian city, Kumasi two years ago. …
…describes her as symbol of courage, tenacity in academic endeavours The first black woman holder of a Ph.D in Cybernetics, Prof. Rose-Margaret Ekeng-Itua has been described as a woman of courage, and tenacity in her academic pursuit by the Arthur Javis University (AJU). The institution’s management, staff and students stated this in a statement congratulating…
