...ARRAIGNED IN COURT IN LAGOS   The Lagos Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), on Thursday, arraigned one Oluremi Philips before Justice S.O. Solebo of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos. Philips, alongside her company, Omritas Energy Limited, is facing a five-count charge bordering on stealing and issuance of dud cheques to the tune of N57, 690,000.00. One of the counts reads: "Oluremi Ebun Philips and Omritas Energy Limited, sometime in 2016 at Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, fraudulently converted and stole...

...AS 81 DIV GOC PLEDGES TO SUPPORT NAOWA ACTIVITIES By Okosun Dennis & Alex Olise   The need to have an Information Communication Technology (ICT), conducive learning environment and ensure that the students have good and comfortable classrooms and Assembly Hall for activities necessitated the urgent need to build a deserving infrastructure to meet contemporary sound educational system at the Nigerian Army Officers' Wives Associations Model Nursery and Primary School, Ojo Cantonment, Lagos. Performing the ceremony at the school premises on Thursday, the wife of the Chief of Army Staff,...

By Paulinus Nsirim   Our attention has been drawn to a write-up titled: "RIVERS AIRCRAFT: AGAIN WIKE LIED AGAINST AMAECHI, by George Tolofari, former Rivers State Commissioner of Transport (2007-2015), dated, January 26, 2022. We are truly amazed at the sheer desperation with which Mr. Tolofari and indeed several key figures of the previous administration, have been attempting with obvious futility, to deny the truth about the Rivers Aircraft in Germany. To put the matter in its proper perspective, Governor Nyesom Wike visited Germany recently with some top-ranking Rivers Indigenes,...

...AS REAR ADMIRAL YAKUBU WAMBAI BECOMES NEW FOC WEST   Nigerian Navy on Wednesday redeployed 54 Rear Admirals following the recent promotion of senior officers in the Service. The posting was contained in a statement signed by the Director of Information (DINFO), Commodore Suleman Dahun on behalf of the Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Gambo. It was revealed that Rear Admiral Saidu Garba, formerly the Navy Secretary, has been appointed Chief of Policy and Plans, Naval Headquarters, while Rear Admiral Barabutemegha Gbassa, formerly Flag Officer Commanding, Western Naval Command...

The Commandant General of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Ahmed Abubakar Audi, has vowed to upscale the security hardware of the Corps with commensurate training and retraining of personnel to match up with the current wave of insecurity and attacks on security operatives in the country. He gave this assurance while on a visit to the Katsina State Governor, Aminu Bello Masari, to commiserate with him on the recent killings of security operatives and other innocent citizens of the State when gunmen suspected to be terrorists attacked a...

...SAYS "LET IT TRANSLATE INTO SUCCESS"   The new Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Abiodun Alabi, has charged Area Commanders, Divisional Police Officers, Head Of Departments and Tactical Commanders to translate their long-time relationship with him to success in the state. CP Alabi charged the officers during his maiden meeting with them shortly after taking over the mantle of leadership as Commissioner of Police in the state at the Command Headquarters, Ikeja. The warning was informed by the belief that some officers he has known for some time may...

The Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Professor Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami) has said that the deployment of the fifth-generation (5G) network will play a vital role in improving the security situation in the country. He made this remark during his address at the launch of the National Policy on Fifth Generation Networks for Nigeria’s Digital Economy, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari GCFR, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Tuesday, January 25, 2022. The Minister in his presentation to the President emphasized that “5G networks is a viable...

Governor Babagana Umara Zulum of Borno State was in Chibok town on Monday following a recent attack on three communities: Kawtakare, Korohuma and Pemi in the LGA. The Governor met with the families of 22 women and two men abducted by Boko Haram/ISWAP during the attack. Zulum invited relatives from the three affected communities made up of men and women and hosted them at the Government lodge in Chibok town. Insurgents had recently attacked Kawtakare on January 21, 2022, Pemi on January 14 after previous one on Korohuma on December...

The Honourable Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, on behalf of the Federal Government, has condoled with the family and the Kano State Government over the killing of the five-year-old pupil Hanifa Abubakar, who was allegedly kidnapped and murdered by her teacher, Mr. Abdulmalik Tanko, at a private school Noble Kids School, located in Kwanar Dakata in Nasarawa, Local Government Area of Kano State. The Minister in a press statement issued by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Bashir Nura Alkali, says the Federal...

Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has said the Rivers State government has through intelligence discovered one of the State-owned Legacy 600 aircraft, that was flown to and abandoned in Germany since 2012 by Governor Chibuike Amaechi led administration. The governor said it was unconscionable for the immediate past administration to have surreptitiously taken a state-owned asset to Germany and abandoned the same there, without any documentation. Governor Wike, who led a delegation of Rivers leaders to General Atomics Aerotec in Munich, Germany, where the aircraft had been abandoned for ten years,...