Tony Anichebe, Uyo The Rector, Maritime Academy of Nigeria, Oron, Cmdre Duja Effedua (rtd) has disclosed that the massive transformation witnessed by the institution were from funds realized from blocked leakages. The Rector says the world-class status now conffered on the institution in terms of infrastructural transformation, facilities upgrade, including the recently acquired simulator […]
Ndubuisi Ugah No fewer than 23 people have died as a result of the outbreak of gastroenteritis, also known as stomach flu, in some communities in Sokoto State. The state’s Commissioner for Health, Mohammed Iname, confirmed the deaths at a briefing Tuesday. He disclosed that the outbreak has affected 13 out of the 23 […]
The Rivers State government has directed resident doctors at the State University Teaching Hospital to call off their ongoing strike within 24 hours from Tuesday, “or forfeit their salary and risk being sacked.” A statement by the Secretary to the Rivers State Government (SSG), Dr. Tammy Danagogo, issued Tuesday, said while the doctors have […]
No fewer than six people have been killed during separate attacks carried out by gunmen in four communities in Kauru Local Government Area of Kaduna State. A report from the Headquarters of Operation Safe Haven on Tuesday said the armed assailants invaded Kigom, Kikoba, Kishisho and Ungwa Magaji Magaji villages on Monday morning, and […]
Three more abducted students of the Bethel Baptist Secondary school in Kaduna State have been found. The three students (all male) were found by troops at the Kankumi forest general area in Chikun Local Government Area, where they were abandoned by their abductors. Although the police or school management are yet to confirm the […]
…injure another, as clash claims 2 in Mile 12 A Pastor with the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Bolanle Ibrahim has been killed by suspected assailants in his church at the Mile 12 area of Lagos State. The deceased, who was an assistant pastor at the King of King parish of the Church, at […]
A 400 Level student of the University of Ilorin, Joshua Ogizien, and three others have been convicted by a State High Court sitting in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, for offences bordering on internet fraud. The Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), arraigned the four before Justice Mahmood Abdulgafar of […]
A teenager, Felix Adekunle has narrated how he escaped from suspected kidnappers who abducted him while hawking goods in Owo, in Owo Local Government area of Ondo State. Adekunle, a 14-year-old JSS two student of Furaben International College, Owo, was hawking slippers in an isolated area of Okemoko in Owo town when he was Kidnapped […]
Operatives of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons and Other Related Matters (NAPTIP), have rescued 13 victims about to be trafficked to Libya and also arrested an alleged notorious transborder trafficker, Nurudeen Sani, based in Kano State. The rescue and arrest was a combined operation with operatives of NAPTIP, Nigerian Security […]
A 43 year old unemployed graduate of the Akwa Ibom State Polytechnic, Ikot Osurua, Mr Robert Isong Jimmy has sent a passionate appeal to Governor Udom Emmanuel to come to his aid and save him from premature death.. Jimmy who is currently admitted at the University of Uyo Teaching hospital (UUTH), with file number 494094, […]