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Sampson Itode, Port Harcourt The Port Harcourt Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Friday re-arraigned George Turnah, a former Special Adviser to Dan Abia, an erstwhile Managing Director of Niger Delta Commission and two others alongside nine firms before Justice Mohammed Turaki of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. According to a statement signed by the Head, Media, and Publicity, EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, on Monday, the defendants were re-arraigned on an amended 23-counts, bordering on obtaining money by false pretense, money laundering, ...

Punch Newspapers Sections Bola Bamigbola, Daud Olatunji and Sampson Itode No fewer than five people have lost their lives in separate road accidents in Osun, Ogun and Rivers states. In Osun, two passengers lost their lives in a crash along the Ilesha-Akure Expressway near Iwaraja Junction. The accident, which occurred around 10pm on Wednesday, involved two vehicles – a truck and a bus. PUNCH Metro gathered that both vehicles were going towards Akure from Ilesha when they had a collision. The Osun Sector Public Education Officer of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Agnes Ogungbemi, confirmed th...

Punch Newspapers Sections Sampson Itode, Port Harcourt Gunmen, on Sunday, ambushed a team of policemen in Rivers State, and in the process killed one of the cops and injured others before escaping with a police rifle. The incident, it was gathered, occurred on Captain Amangala Street in the Borikiri area of Port Harcourt. It was learnt that there was palpable tension in the area as shops closed hurriedly, while residents were forced indoors around 7pm when the incident happened. An eyewitness, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the gunshot forced passersby to flee the area. The source ...

Sampson Itode, Port HarcourtA political pressure group, Network for the Defense of Democracy and Good Governance has vowed to resist any imposi...

Punch Newspapers Sections Sampson Itode, Port Harcourt A 68-year-old man, Sunday Joel, from Akwa Ibom State, has demanded N100m from the police for the killing of his 30-year old son, Nsikak Joel. Sunday said Nsikak allegedly died in the custody of the now-disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Rivers State. He told the Rivers State Judicial Commission of Inquiry sitting in Port Harcourt on Thursday that his son, who was a crane operator, died due to torture a few hours after the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Nkpolu Police Division, Port Harcourt, handed him over to operatives of SA...