TODAY.ng | Shipowners accuse FG of encouraging sea piracy
He said that out of frustration, the young cadets were lured to team up with dubious characters, who would take advantage of their seafaring skills, to join piracy and sea robbery.
He said that out of frustration, the young cadets were lured to team up with dubious characters, who would take advantage of their seafaring skills, to join piracy and sea robbery.
In its bid to stem smuggling and other criminal activities on the country’s waterways the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) plans to recruit at least 1,200 seamen to boost its personnel.
Four policemen who were supposed to be on guard at the residence of former President Goodluck Jonathan’s uncle when he was kidnapped, have been detained by the Police. Reliable sources at the Bayelsa Police Command told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Wednesday that the policemen were being interrogated as part of investigation into the […]
Lakanu, said that the command would soon establish a riot-police base at Agwa and Oguta, jetties as part of the command’s determination to rid the state of criminal elements, especially in the oil producing communities.
SHOCK, disbelief and anger yesterday trailed the alleged killing of hundreds of persons in four Agatu communities in Benue State by marauding Fulani herdsmen and militiamen.
Secretary-General of the United Nations, UN, Mr Ban Ki-moon, has identified four fundamental goals which the Federal Government must pursue urgently if it must succeed in its recent offensive on violence against children.
Senator Shehu Sani, representing Kaduna Central senatorial district, is optimistic that the over 200 hundred missing Chibok girls will be found, advising that the Federal Government must negotiate with some persons to rescue the girls from their captors. Sani pointed out that the recent happenings in the country had shown that the incessant killing by […]
Nigerian refugees who fled the Boko Haram insurgency into northern Cameroon are turning down calls by Cameroon and Nigerian authorities for them to return, saying they do not expect to find peace back home.
The Divisional Police Officer in charge of Railway Post, Umuahia, Abia State is currently in trouble for ordering his men to molest an army captain, who reportedly packed his 18-seater Mitsubishi bus close to the fence of the Police station. It was gathered that the DPO was said driving into the station when he spotted […]
Soldiers pounce on DPO, police officers for molesting Army Captain
No fewer than three persons were reportedly killed on Monday evening when soldiers and suspected members of a cult group clashed in Yeghe community in Khana local government area of Rivers State.