Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has rejected the Federal Government’s approved concession of King’s College, Lagos, to the King’s College Old Boys’ Association (KCOBA), describing the arrangement as a transfer of the government’s responsibility for funding and managing public education. The organisation urged the Federal Government to use the two-week suspension of the…
The Chief Judge of Rivers State, Justice Simeon Amadi, has launched the Rivers State Plea Bargain Guidelines in order to strengthen the administration of criminal justice and ensure fair and efficient dispensation of justice in the state. Justice Amadi made the launch during the event organised by the Administration of Criminal Justice Monitoring Council Rivers…
An inferno that gutted a house in Okochiri community, in Okrika Local Government Area of Rivers State, has claimed the life of a mother and her four children in the early hours of Friday, September 18, 2026. The victims, said to be four children and their mother, reportedly died in the inferno before community youths…
There is something curious about Nigerians’ relationship with the police. We complain about them, criticise them, film them and sometimes mock them. Yet when armed robbers strike, kidnappers invade communities or violence breaks out at night, the same institution many Nigerians love to criticise becomes the one they expect to respond. When a child goes…
Lî Ny’údū Úpātá III of Úpātá Kingdom, His Majesty Dr. Felix Enene Otuwarikpo, has celebrated nine years on the ancient throne of the Úpātá people. The anniversary was observed quietly across Upata Kingdom, while the monarch call for greater unity among Ekpeye traditional rulers and the people of Ekpeye. In a statement issued on Wednesday…
The Rivers State Police Command has commenced investigation into the circumstances surrounding the alleged confinement of a 16-year-old girl, identified by police as Joy, in a bathroom at Abuloma, Port Harcourt. The teenager was reportedly rescued by police operatives following a distress call from neighbours who allegedly heard her cries from the residence. The incident…
The Akwa Ibom State Government has extended the deadline for the registration of tricycles and buses and the issuance of QR codes to September 30, 2026.youThe government warned that commercial tricycles and buses that fail to register, be duly captured and obtain QR codes by the new deadline will not be allowed to operate on…
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP OlatunjiDisu, has proposed the establishment of an Orange Economy Security and Intellectual Property Coordination Desk within an appropriate existing structure of the Nigeria Police Force. Disu made the proposal on Wednesday, September 16, 2026, while delivering a lecture to participants of Senior Executive Course 48, 2026, at the National Institute…
Nigeria’s naira-denominated government bonds are reentering a J.P. Morgan bond benchmark more than a decade after the country was dropped from the global investment bank’s flagship emerging-market index. J.P. Morgan has included Nigerian government bonds with a 7.4 per cent weighting in its new Government Bond Index–Emerging Markets Edge (GBI-EM Edge), a benchmark for local…
The Executive Director and Founder, Mother of Good Counsel Initiative (MOGCI), Lady Doris Onyeneke, PhD, has raised concerns over the growing vulnerability of the girl-child to early sexual activity, poverty, cultists p, kidnapping and other social vices. Onyeneke called for concerted efforts by parents, communities, government agencies and other stakeholders to protect girls and promote…
