We won’t congratulate A’Ibom gov-elect, says APC

 

                                                                     Umana Umana

The All Progressives Congress, Akwa Ibom State chapter, has warned against the plan by the Peoples Democratic Party to use some faceless individuals as the party’s local government chairmen to congratulate the Governor-elect, Mr. Udom Emmanuel, of the PDP.

Cops engage hoodlums in Lagos brothels

 

        Some of the brothels on Oyingbo road 

There was pandemonium in the Railway line area, Otto bus stop in the Oyingbo area of Lagos on Sunday when policemen engaged some hoodlums, said to be hiding some arms inside some brothels.

9janewsworld  learnt that during the confrontation, where police reportedly exchanged gunfire with the hoodlums, residents and shop owners scampered for safety.

Govs’ forum crisis cost PDP presidency – Uduaghan

 

                                         Delta State Governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan

In this interview with TUNDE ODESOLA, Delta State Governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan, comments on party politics and the recent general elections, among other issues

A major objective of your administration was to make Delta State less dependent on oil. Looking back, can you say you’ve been able to achieve this objective?

The issue of ‘Delta beyond oil’ is our vision for economic recovery by simply using the funds we are getting from oil now to develop the structures that will encourage investments in other areas of the economy, especially in the agriculture, culture and tourism sectors. So far, we have reasonably laid the foundation for that kind of economy. The foundation we tried to lay is in three major areas. First is peace and security, without which no investors would come. Second is infrastructure development in transport, power, ICT and to encourage investors to come and thirdly, in the area of human capital development; to produce a strong workforce that can be absorbed when this structure comes into being. We have focused on those three areas and we have laid the foundation. I believe that the next administration would build on it and also expand the scope for the investment that comes to the state.

Police rescue stolen baby in A’Ibom

 

                                                                     The baby

The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has recovered a baby boy, David Johnny, who was stolen by a doctor with the connivance of his mother, Esther Johnny, and sold to a woman in Abuja.

It was learnt that the mother initially denied knowledge of the crime as the police intensified efforts to unravel the whereabouts of the baby.

Otti is a bad loser, says Ikpeazu

 

                                                              Okezie Ikpeazu

Abia State Governor-elect, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, has denied an allegation by the candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, Dr. Alex Otti, that he (Ikpeazu) rigged the April 11 governorship election in the state.

FG hands over NITEL to NATCOM Consortium

 

After 14 years and five failed attempts to sell the Nigerian Telecommunications Limited, the Federal Government on Tuesday finally handed over the beleaguered first national telecommunications company to a new core investor, the NATCOM Consortium.

Youth demography and test of leadership

 

                                                                         Taiwo Odukoya

On April 18, 2015 a Mozambican, Emmanuel Sithole, put a human face to the recent xenophobic attacks in South Africa. Sithole was innocently walking along the road when he was attacked, beaten and stabbed to half an inch of his life. He died hours later in a hospital. Hours after his death, pictures of the incident and his story hit the internet, followed by the arrest of the suspects; all of them aged 18-22. Underpinning the mindless attacks on black immigrants in South Africa is a desperate youth crisis.