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Advertisement Although the number of pupils involved has not been officially confirmed, eyewitnesses said the incident occurred on Thursday afternoon as the pupils were returning home from school. The tanker is said to have fallen on the pupils near the David Ejoor barracks in Effurun-Warri. According to unconfirmed reports, some pupils who were injured in the incident are currently receiving treatment at the Delta State University Teaching Hospital, Oghara. Advertisement While passers-by lamented at the scene of the incident, security operatives cordoned off the area and attempted to rescue...

Until his appointment, the new army chief was the Theatre Commander of Operation Hadin Kai, the counter-insurgency...

Aburi Ghosts, Asaba Secessionists and Waffles In High Places, By Festus Adedayo ADVERTISEMENT When you listen to Nigeria’s Senate President, Ahmed Lawan’s skewed submission on Southern governors’ meeting in Asaba, Delta State last week, you will realise that people in high places too are not immune from marketplace waffles. Miniature logic can proceed from the minds of huge, prarchute-like babanriga wearers after all. More importantly, from the tragic Lawan ill-logics, the much talked about January, 1967 Aburi Accord will present to you as the quintessential Julius Caesar’s ghost prom...

POLSCOPE BY Eddy Odivwri Sometime in early January 2019, the presidency, I think, sent some top government officials to meet with the Editors of various Newspaper houses in Lagos. There were two ministers: Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi (Transportation) and Chris Ngige (Labour and Productivity); a serving governor, Nasir El-Rufai (Kaduna); and a few other officials. The meeting was to explain what they described as the “misconceptions” in the public domain. Predictably, the issue of security was one of the major concerns that engaged the meeting that night. Like many others at the meeting, I was...