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Forty-nine passengers Tuesday escaped death after a Dana Air plane overshot the runway of the Port Harcourt Airport. A Dana aircraft with registration number 5N-SRI performing a flight from Lagos to Port Harcourt overshot the runway and ended up in the bush in Omagwa, Port Harcourt. Mrs Henrietta Yakubu, General Manager, Corporate Affairs, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) confirmed the incident in a statement issued in Lagos. Yakubu said: “A Dana aircraft flight 9J0363, flying from Abuja to Port Harcourt airport, has overshot the Port Harcourt runway. “The incident was suspected to have been caused by a heavy rain, which…

The Federal Government Monday challenged the powers of the National Judicial Council, NJC, to interfere in the ongoing criminal proceeding it initiated against Justice Sylvester Ngwuta of the Supreme Court, before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, in Abuja. Federal government had in a 10-count charge marked CCT/ABJ/01/17, alleged that apex court jurist had between June 2, 2011 and July 19, 2016, refused to declare his ownership of 28 plots of land to the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB. It accused Justice Ngwuta who is also facing another 18-count criminal charge before the Federal High Court in Abuja, of engaging…

The Police Intelligence response Team under the office of Inspector-General of Police has arrested the ring leader of the Fulani herdsmen and three other kingpins who carried out the killing of scores of Benue citizens in a bloodbath attack, following the enactment of the law against open grazing by the Benue state government. The suspects are Alhaji Laggi 40 years, mastermind and gang leader of the herdsmen group; Mallam mumini Abdullahi 34 years, Muhammed adamu 30 years and Ibrahim Sule 32 years. A senior Police source attached to the IGP’s IRT stated that the ring leader and three other suspected…

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Monday, said it has spent $5.8 billion about N1.8 trillion to import 9.8 million metric tonnes of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) to tackle the scarcity in the country. In a statement in Abuja, Mr. Maikanti Baru, Group Managing Director of the NNPC, stated this Tuesday during a public hearing by the Senate Committee on Public Accounts at the National Assembly Complex. Baru, who was represented by Mr. Abdulrazaq Isiaka, the Chief Operating Officer, Finance and Accounts, said the NNPC carried out the massive importation in fulfilment of its statutory role of supplier of last…

The Kaduna government Monday demolished a building belonging to a factional leader of All Progressives Party, APC, Senator Suleiman Hunkuyi located in the heart of Kaduna city in what observers see as the aftermath of the lingering crisis in the party. Senator Hunkuyi, whose faction last week suspended Governor Nasir El-Rufai from the party, immediately accused the governor of instigating the action, saying the building was used as the campaign office for Governor El-Rufai and also as the state headquarters of the APC. Justifying the demolition, Ibrahim Husseini, the Director General of Kaduna Geographic Information Services, KADGIS, said the “illegal…

Suspected gunmen Monday kdnapped the youth leader of Udianga Enem village in Etim Ekpo local government area of Akwa Ibom state, thus throwing the villagers into confusion. It was gathered that Itoro Inuaowo, the youth leader was abducted by a militants gang suspected to belong to the Iceland cult fraternity. According to a local vigilante, who would not want his name in print, “the gunmen arrived in his compound on three motorcycles at about 6 a.m. and whisked the youth leader away at gun point.” It is speculated that the Iceland members, popularly called ‘The Red’, were on the prowl to avenge…

Owners of dormant lock-up shops of no fewer than 1,500 in Akpan Andem market in Uyo local government area of Akwa Ibom State have been given a two-week ultimatum to open them for business or government will revoke their Certificate of Occupancy. Imoh Okon, Chairman of Uyo local government area, handed down the ultimatum Tuesday when he led a team comprising Dr. Iniobong Essien, the Commissioner for Environment and Mineral Resources and other top government functionaries to inspect facilities in the market and other markets in the state capital. Okon stated that the state government would be left with no…

After the rancorous 2015 general elections, two ex-Nigerian presidents seemed to have buried their hatchets and harped on the virtues of forgiveness and national unity. Before the elections, Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, both Nigerian leaders, had turned to political arch-rivals with the former, a one-time Board of Trustees (BoT) chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) shredding the party’s membership card. It was generally believed that Obasanjo was instrumental to Jonathan’s defeat by President Muhammadu Buhari in that election, thus sparking off era of frosty relationship between both. In a fence-mending mission, Jonathan had on January 20, 2017 visited the…

Federal Government may soon stop multinational oil firms from shipping the crude oil produced in the country outside for refining as a way of boosting local production. Mr. Ibe Kachikwu, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources said government was considering a policy to compel multinational oil and gas firms operating in the country to build refineries in Nigeria. Speaking at the on-going Nigerian International Petroleum Summit, NIPS, Kachikwu stated soon “We would get to a point where Nigeria, definitely, would be a major supplier of refined petroleum products. It just has to happen. Nothing else makes sense. “We are also…

The Indigeneous People of Biafra, IPOB, has decried what it described as the worst form of judicial immorality and conspiracy in continuous release of Boko Haram suspects and detention of peaceful IPOB members. Federal High Court sitting in Wawa Cantonment, Kainji, Niger State over the weekend freed no fewer than 475 suspected Boko Haram members to be rehabilitated by their state governments. Reacting to the development, the IPOB, in a statement by Comrade Emma Powerful, its Media and Publicity Secretary, noted with dismay the release of another group of Boko Haram suspects ”while innocent IPOB family members are still being…