About 76.9kg of Canadian loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis, from four used vehicles, in a container marked MSDU6686346 from Canada, have been intercepted by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the Port Harcourt Ports Complex, Onne, Rivers State. A joint inspection of the shipment with …

Gunmen have reportedly shot the Protocol Officer to the immediate past Chief of Staff to the Rivers State government house, Justice Azunda. The criminals also took him away to a nearby bush in the area. Reports emerged that a suspected cultist terrorizing a section of the East-West road, Onuigwe Nwodi …

A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Monday the 5th of June, 2023, dismissed the suit instituted by Mr. Festus Keyamo, SAN (erstwhile Minister of State, Labour and Productivity), against former Vice-President and the PDP candidate in the last presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. In a ruling delivered on the …

Mr Martin Amaewhule (PDP-Obio/Apkor) has emerged as Speaker of the 10th Rivers State House of Assembly. NAN reports that Amaewhule was elected by the lawmakers shortly after the proclamation of the assembly by Gov.Siminialaye Fubara on Monday in Port Harcourt.   Mr Dumle Mao (PDP-Gokana) was also elected as the …

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted an interim order restraining the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, from going on strike from Wednesday as planned, until the determination of the motion on notice. Justice O. Y. Anuwe issued the order on Monday and …

Kaduna State Governor Senator Uba Sani is holding a closed-door meeting with leader of the Organised Labour leaders in the State over the planned strike action by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC). The meeting is expected to set two committees to see to amicable resolution of the crisis occasioned by …

The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has recommenced the two additional train trips on Abuja-Kaduna Train Service corridor, which was earlier suspended. The additional train service resumed yesterday Sunday, June 4, 2023 as the train departed Idu at 9.45 a.m while another departed Rigasa by 1.30p.m As from today, Monday June …

The police, on Monday, arraigned a 32-year-old man, Bello Ismaila, before an Ado Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly receiving stolen cattle. The police prosecutor, Insp Johnson Okunade, told the court that the defendant allegedly received two stolen cattle from one Abdulkadril Buba around 5 pm on May 21 at …

A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has sentenced the presiding pastor of a new generation Church, Chidiebere Okoroafor, to death by hanging for multiple murders. Pastor Okoroafor, who is the General Overseer of the Altar of Solution and Healing Assembly based in Oyigbo, Rivers State, was standing trial for …

The Zone D of the Federal Operations Unit, Nigeria Customs Service, Bauchi State, has seized contraband Pangolin scales with a Duty Paid Value of N432 million. Mr. Umar Abdullahi, Public Relations Officer of the Zone, disclosed this at a news conference on Monday in Bauchi.   He said the Pangolin …