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Owerri attack, plot to destabilize South-East, says HURIWA On By Dirisu Yakubu Famous rights advocacy group, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, yesterday linked Monday’s attack on a correctional facility and Police Command in Owerri as a plot to destabilize the South-East geo-political zone. This is even as the group queried the methodology deployed by outgoing Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu in arriving at the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, as the mastermind of the violent attacks. According to HURIWA, the speed with which the police “investigated a...

Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has said that it suspects that agents of deep State may be involved in the recent attacks in the South East and South-South regions of the country. HURIWA said that what a decent and thinking government should have done is to investigate the attacks using the best global practices, adding that failure to do this could mean that there were already plots in Abuja to cause maximum chaos in the usually peaceful South East of Nigeria just to destroy the economy of the same people deprived of government jobs. According to the rights group, this s...

He studied Textile and Design from the polytechnic and had been idle since graduation in 2018, except for anchoring events as Master of Ceremony (MC) which sometimes comes his way. For the Adoka-born comedian from Otukpo Local Government Area, the akara idea became an option  and he went to seek the permission of a neighbour to use his spacious frontage as temporary location for the business. Onehi in a chat with our correspondent in Makurdi, said the business he began with just N5000 over a month ago has brought him fortune and attracted all manner of people to his joint in Otukpo town.

Lessons to learn from story of mining entrepreneur State-of-the-art private sector-led iron ore project couldn’t be able to take off Gold ore is transported on a belt at the Chatree gold mine operated by Akara Mining PHOTO: REUTERS ISLAMABAD: This is not only the crushing story of a mining entrepreneur in Pakistan. It is also the untold story of how a state eats into businesses its citizens create. It has been 13 years since Adnan Ghauri, our mining entrepreneur, has been fighting for his rights in Pakistani court system. He is waiting for the execution of a decree of Rs400 million awarded...

TODAY File Photo Both the PDP chairman Prince Uche Secondus and former Rivers governor Celestine Omehia have lost out to Governor Wike, in fielding candidates for the 17 April local council election. The emerging candidates are loyalists of Governor Nyesom Wike, as he plans his succession in 2023 and his political future. Among the candidates is the former majority leader in the Rivers State House Assembly and a three-time member of Rivers House , Dr. Chidi Lloyd. He is the PDP chairmanship candidate for Emohua local Government Council, to replace Tom Aliezi, who was impeached by his Counci...