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Oct

16

2022

Dr. Samuel Uba Okorie: A breath of fresh air in Arochukwu.

Abia State, Amos Oge Kalu, Opinion, Politics2023, Abia State, Next Level, Nigeria, Opinion, Politics, Samuel Uba Okorie

The 2023 political dispensation has continued to be promising and hopeful for the electorates due to the array of options available to the people In the choices of candidates for the polls, Arochukwu appears to be very favored when providence threw Dr. Samuel Uba Okorie their way as the best option to drive away years of misrepresentation at the Abia State House of Assembly. The true change has come. There's an English adage that says, "The taste of the pudding is in the eating". As a man that is tested and trusted in areas of human relationships, a seasoned manager…

Oct

15

2022

By Freeman

Tompolo’s security operatives discover more illegal pipelines in Delta

Economy, Metro, News2023, Economy, Metro, Nigeria, Security, Tompolo

Federal Government’s privately contracted oil pipeline surveillance team, Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited, led by Government Ekpemupolo popularly known as Tompolo, has reportedly discovered more massive illegal crude oil pipelines attached to Trans Forcados Export Trunkline. The latest discoveries, sources said, were coming days after operatives of Tantita Security Services uncovered an illegal 4-kilometre pipeline connected from the Trans Escravos line into the sea. With the latest discoveries, Tantita Security Services operatives have so far uncovered more than 58 illegal tapping points used by crude oil bunkers on the nation’s oil pipelines in two States of Delta and Bayelsa. It…

Oct

15

2022

By Kalu Odinakachi

2023: Northerners don’t need Yoruba, Igbo candidates – Atiku

Opinion, Politics2023, Atiku Abubakar, Next Level, Nigeria, Opinion, Politics

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has said those from the North don’t need candidates from the South during the 2023 elections. Atiku stated this while responding to a question posed to him by the spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, during an Interactive Session With Arewa Joint Committee held on Saturday in Kaduna State. According to him, Northerners need to vote for him rather than a Yoruba or Igbo candidate because he’s a Pan-Nigerian with a northern extraction. When Baba-Ahmed asked Atiku why Northerners should vote for him, the PDP presidential…

Oct

15

2022

By Kalu Odinakachi

Subsidy: Sanusi expresses pity for next Nigerian President

Economy, Metro, News, Opinion, Politics2023, Economy, Lamido Sanusi, Metro, Next Level, Nigeria, Opinion, Politics

The deposed Emir of Kano and vice chairman, of Kaduna Investment Promotion Agency, Lamido Sanusi, has expressed his compassion for the next president that will succeed the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), due to the perceived depleted state of the economy. Sanusi, who is also the current Khalifah, Tijaniyat Movement of Nigeria, said this in Kaduna on Saturday while addressing notable politicians at a Kaduna Investment programme titled, “Building a resilient economy”. The 14th Emir said Nigeria’s economy has been tied to the oil and gas sector and subsidy removal is fast mitigating the economy’s growth. “Nigeria has continued…

Oct

15

2022

By Chimamanda

39-year-old father arrested for impregnating 13-year-old daughter

Lifestyle, Metro2023, Lifestyle, Metro, Nigeria, Rape

Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 39-year-old man, Mfon Jeremiah, for allegedly impregnating his 13-year-old daughter (name withheld). Jeremiah, a resident of FIRRO Estate off Adesan, Mowe in the Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State, was arrested after his wife reported him to the police. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, made the disclosure in a statement on Friday. Oyeyemi said the suspect was arrested following a report lodged at Mowe divisional headquarters by the mother of the victim. The PPRO said, “The mother of the victim reported that she discovered…