By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye Suspected armed robbers and cultists operating in Agbor-Obi area and environs have been arrested by operatives of the Delta State Police Command acting on credible intelligence. Force Public Relations Officer for the Command, DSP Bright Edafe disclosed this in a press released made available to SouthernVoicenews.Com . Edafe revealed that base on credible intelligence on November 12, 2023, at about 0500hrs, operatives of Agbor Area Command stormed Kelubia Street Agbor-Obi where they apprehended four suspects; Ogbolu Peter ‘m’, (38), Justice Nmor ‘m’, (28), Precious Odilu ‘m’ (26), Queen Mba ‘f’, (27), all of Agbor Community. According to…
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Godwin-Maria Utuedoye is a trained professional journalist. A graduate of Mass Communication from Delta State University, Abraka. He is a registered practising Journalist with the Nigeria Union of Journalists with over 20 years experience of reporting. He is interested in Investigative and development Journalism. He lives in Nigeria and focuses more in the Niger-Delta region where oil and gas exploration by government and multinational iol companies has plunged into poverty and environmental degradation for years. He is also a PR Consultant, content creator, broadcast, print Journalist and Publisher. His vast experience in journalism span over decades of reporting the activities of the untouched areas. He is married with children.
The authority in Saudi Arabia has on Wednesday, issued a statement giving the reasons why 264 passengers visas were cancelled and subsequently deported from the Kingdom on Monday, November 13, 2023 upon arrival at the King Abdulaziz International Airport, Hajj Terminal Jeddah. The Federal Government of Nigeria has called for calm following the deportations, but on Wednesday, the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Abuja provided clarification on the matter. According to the embassy’s statement, the passengers denied entry and subsequently deported did not meet the entry conditions and requirements stipulated by the Kingdom’s applicable rules and regulations. They said…
The National Executive Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress Wednesday night suspended the ongoing strike. The unions said the suspension followed the intervention of the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu. SouthernVoicenews.Com gathered that the Meeting which commenced at a few Minutes past 7 pm lasted for close to one hour during which various affiliates and State chapters reviewed the outcome of the meeting held between the leaders of the organised labour and Ribadu
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Newly deployed Commissioner of Police for Rivers State, CP Tunji Disu, had said no one kill a police officer and go free without facing the wrath of the law. The CP stated this when he paid a working visit to troubled Ahoada East Local Government Area upon his assumption of office when we he met with officers and men of the Ahoada Area Command and Divisions. Disu, who was visibly angry over the gruesome murder of the Ahoada Divisional Police Officer Amgbashin by suspected cult group, gave a matching order to officers and men of the command to get one…
The National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu, on Wednesday, said investigation has commenced into an assault on the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero. The NSA also said some suspects have been arrested in connection to the incident in Owerri, the Imo State capital, on November 1, 2023. Labour embarked on nationwide strike on Tuesday to seek justice over an assault on Ajaero who was attacked when he was about to lead a protest against alleged anti-labour practices by the Governor Hope Uzodimma-led administration. In the wake of the incident and days to the November 11, 2023…
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said it will cost N35m to fly back to Nigeria the corpse of the Nigerian medical student, Chibuikem Emmanuel, who was murdered in the Philippines. Emmanuel was reportedly murdered in the Philippines allegedly by some Chinese nationals on October 23, 2023, according to a post made to the social networking platform, X, by one Michael Ojuola, who described Emmanuel as his friend. Ojuola had posted on X that the victim was “brutally murdered” by a group of Chinese. “They tied his hands up, covered and tied his mouth and beat him blue-black until he…
As parts of efforts to cushion the effects of fuel subsidy removal for residents of Keffi Local Government Area in Nassarawa State, the local government chairman, Hon. Baba Shehu Mohammed on Tuesday, distributed over 3000 bags of grains and cash to residents. The distribution of the items took place at the Keffi Police Barracks, under strict supervision by the council chairman in company of a Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Chieftaincy Affairs , Hon. Badamasi Dahiru. Addressing beneficiaries, the Council Chairman expressed profound gratitude to the president of President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Nasarawa State Governor,…
…Alleged Poll Was Marred By Vote Buying …7 Political Parties Congratulate Diri, Observers Commend INEC On Improvement Candidate of the Labour Party LP, in the November 11, 2023, governorship elections inBayelsa State, Udengs Eradiri has said he and his team were still studying the results of the elections before deciding the next line of action, alleging that the gubernatorial election in the state was marred by vote buying and other unlawful activities and thereby rejected the result. The All Progressives Congress, APC, and its Governorship Candidate, Chief Timipre Sylva, had on Monday, also rejected the result. Eradiri, in a press…
This may not be a better moment for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Candidate Senator Dino Melaye in the just concluded Kogi State off cycle governorship elections as the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kogi State has called on security agencies to immediately arrest him even after his defeat for an alleged cyber crime, which the party claimed he had already confessed to in a live television programme. The Kogi APC Governorship Campaign Council said, for Melaye, who was defeated at the poll, to have claimed on national TV that he had access to the back-end server of the Independent…