The activities of an Enugu-based business tycoon, Chief Henry Okechukwu, have caused an uproar in the community of Bendeghe-Affi in Ikom Local Government Area of Cross River State as over 100 youths take to the street. The activities of Okechukwu, CONVERSEER gathered include illegal exploitation of iron ore and timber logging from the community forest,…
By Our Reporter The Cross River State Government in a bid to stop the menace of illegal checkpoints and tolls, has begun a massive crackdown on such collections across the state. The Special Adviser to the Governor on Tolls Collection, Mr Bassey Ita Edet, who led a monitoring and inspection delegation to the Northern Part…
Multiple explosions were on Tuesday reported at the gas processing plant operated by the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) at Gbarain, Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa. The gas plant feeds the Nigerian Liquified Natural Gas (NLNG) export terminal in Bonny Island, Rivers. Speaking to journalists on Tuesday evening, a community source said…
The Maiduguri Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday, 13th May 2024, arraigned Babakura Muhammad Nur and Kaltum Mustapha for criminal misappropriation to the tune of N12,950,000 (Twelve Million, Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira only). The duos were arraigned separately before Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High…
The Fourth Prosecution Witness, PW4, Bitrus Sambo Bako in the trial of Kassam Kopte and Yakubu Zwalnan, former Chairman and Secretary of the University of Jos (UNIJOS) Non-Academic Staff Union of Education and Associated Institutions respectively on Tuesday, 14th May 2024, narrated before Justice S.P. Gang of the Plateau State High Court, Jos how the defendants lured union members into fraudulent land deals…
