Reports

Six people, including an orderly to Senator Gbenga Obadara, have sustained gun injuries in Itori, Ewekoro Local Government Area of the Ogun State, after members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) disrupted a senatorial meeting by a faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) with gunshots. According to Senator Gbenga Obadara, the senator representing Ogun […]

Following the recent appointment of seven permanent secretaries in the Lagos State Public Service, Governor of the state, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola has approved the deployment of 11 permanent secretaries in the State Public Service. According to a circular issued on Thursday by Head of Service, Mrs. Oluseyi Williams, four newly appointed permanent secretaries were […]

Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Umar Manko late Monday hit at politicians in the state for encouraging crime by recruiting youths into violent groups to be used for elections. These youths, he said, later end up becoming the cultists who have been threatening the peace of the state in recent times. Manko, who was summoned before […]

The family of Charles Okah, who is being held in Kuje prisons on allegations of masterminding the 1st October 2010 Independence Day bombing, has cried out over his deteriorating health, spawned largely by administration of counter-productive drugs on him by the prisons’ doctor. In a release signed by Felix Amaebi Okah and Dadiowei Okah on […]

Governor of Bayelsa State, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson has directed the Police and other security agencies in the state to ensure adequate security at the secretariat of the All Progressive Alliance (APC) in Yenagoa, the state capital. According to a Government House statement, the directive is in keeping with the policy of the administration to […]

The Committee on Finance of the Federal House of Representatives has accused Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr. (Mrs.) Nogozi Okonjo-Iweala of toying with the memory of Nigerians. The committee recalled that the minister was reluctant to leave the sitting of the committee in December, instead wanting to answer all the […]

Mr. Surendra Bhagwandass, a Base Maintenance Manager at Caverton Helicopters, on Friday resigned his appointment over non-payment of salaries and unfair treatment of Nigerian workers in the company. The company is alleged not to have paid the salaries of its Nigerian workers for December 2013. In an email to the management of Caverton, Bhagwandass claimed […]

THE  Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly (DTHA), Engr. Victor Ochei, recently  fielded questions from The POINTER crew of Monday Uwagwu, Sam Ijeh and Iteveh Ekpokpobe, in which he responded to legion of questions, including the House’s activities, especially in relation to the 2014 Appropriation Bill of the state.  His responses to our questions are in paraphrase. Mr […]

The application for stay of proceeding in the trial of erstwhile Oyo State Head of Service, Alhaja Kudirat Adeleke and 11 others has been dismissed by a High Court in the state. All 12 accused are standing trial for alleged fraud to the tune of N5.6bn at the Local Government Pension Board. According to Richard Ogunwole […]

The Lagos State House of Assembly very late on Thursday approved the sum of N489. 690bn as budget for the 2014 fiscal year, the same amount presented to the House by State Governor, Babatunde Fashol last year. The budget was finally approved after a worrisome delay and two deferments by the lawmakers, first because 10 ministries, departments […]

President Goodluck Jonathan will travel to Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire on Friday afternoon to attend a meeting of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Heads of State and Government. According to Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, Jonathan and other ECOWAS Heads of State and Government are scheduled to confer […]

The Zone 5 Command of the Nigeria Police, comprising Edo, Delta and Bayelsa, has announced that it arrested a total of 150 armed robbery suspects in 2013 out of a total of 124 cases reported within the same period. Assistant Inspector General (AIG) of Police of the Zone, Hashimu Argungu, who disclosed this on Tuesday while […]