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  Controversial pirate channel, Radio Biafra, has again resumed transmission, despite the Federal Government’s claim that it had jammed the station’s signals. The Federal Government had on July 14 announced that it jammed the transmission signals of the radio station, which was operating illegally from an unknown location. However, it was observed on Saturday that the station, which was monitored from 8pm to 9pm, had resumed transmission on the same 104.7 FM band, from which it transmitted before it went off air. Listeners were invited to call in from various parts of the South-East, and from outside the country. The station was still transmitting as of the time of filing this report, Punch reports. The broadcast addressed the most current issues in the country, an indication that the channel was still on air. Their correspondent observed that the channel had not been transmitting on the FM 104.7 band, on which its signals was received in Enugu, since July. 

   at the week­end in Asaba, Delta State when a hungry dog attacked and killed a four-month-old baby boy. Although, some people tired in vain to rescue the baby alive, the boy died few minutes thereafter. His mother was conveying the dog, the little child and her nanny in her car. The woman simply identi­fied as Mrs Akowe, stopped at a supermarket, leaving the nanny, the child and the dog in the car. The dog started behaving funny and started eating up the child, simply called Chinonso. The helpless nanny ran into the supermarket to alert the mother. The madam immedi­ately raised the alarm, but be­fore help could come, the dog had already eaten up part of the baby’s stomach. The two security guards in the supermarket succeeded in killing the dog while the baby was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was confirmed dead. An eyewitness, George Ojeogwu, said: “I was in the supermarket on Okpanam Road when the dog bit the owner’s child to death. I learnt that the child i

BY  OUR REPORTER   ON AUGUST  THE National Security Sum­mit hosted by Nigeria Police and The Sun Publishing Lim­ited, publishers of The Sun newspapers, in Abuja on Au­gust 17, is perhaps, the most important conference held on Nigeria’s security, safety and policing this year. It had the theme: “The Community Partnership Approach to In­ternal Security and Crime Management.” The summit attracted all rel­evant stakeholders, from the top brass of the Police and the country’s political leaders, to pre-eminent traditional rulers and the academia. It champi­oned community policing as a panacea to the problem of in­security in the country. President Muhammadu Bu­hari utilised the opportunity of the summit to announce the government’s intention to recruit 10,000 fresh police of­ficers and to establish a well-trained and equipped Anti-ter­rorism and Multi-agency Task Force, to address the challenge of insurgency in the country. He promised to enhance the operational capacity of th

THE  Chief Of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant- General Tukur Buratai, at the weekend assured that activities of the Boko Ha­ram insurgents would end in a matter of days. Buratai, vowed to beat the three months deadline given by President Mu­hammadu Buhari, to the Nigerian Armed Forces to wipe out insurgence in the country and restore nor­malcy to affected areas. Buratai, who gave the assurance when he led a team of soldiers to re­cover some strongholds of the insurgence in some villages in Borno State, said there was no going back on the presidential order as officers and men of the Nigerian Armed Forces were more than determined to end the in­surgency war and get on with other businesses of the military. While the Army chief led the ground troop with heavy artillery, his coun­terpart, the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadiq Abubakar, piloted a fight­er jet to give aerial support to the ground troop as they charged through villages and routed the terrorists from their st

THE  International Criminal Court (ICC) has commenced investigation on the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, for alleged threat to sink the Igbo residing in Lagos State into the lagoon, if they failed to vote for the All Progres­sives Congress (APC) dur­ing the April 11, 2015 gover­norship election in the state. Checks by Daily Sun re­vealed that the son of the late former governor of old Anambra State, Dr. Josef Umunnakwe Onoh, had petitioned the ICC over the Oba’s alleged threat and urged the world jury to in­vestigate the threat and bring the monarch to justice for conceiving to annihilate the Igbo race over election mat­ters. The ICC had earlier in the year, acknowledged re­ceipt of Onoh’s petition and promised to give consider­ation to his request. In the second corre­spondence to Onoh, with reference number OTP-CR-140/15, and dated Au­gust 13, 2015, ICC’s Head of Information and Evi­dence Unit in the office of the prosecutor, M. P. Dillion, said they were analyzing the situ

The Lagos State Task Force on Environmental and Special Offences Enforcement Unit yesterday raided some black spots at the famous Oshodi in Lagos arrested 223 suspected miscreants, including nine under-aged and five women. The team which stormed Oshodi in the early hours, also removed illegal structures erected by recalcitrant street hawkers and roadside traders around the market. Chairman of the Task Force, Olubukola Abe, a Superintendent of Police, said the raid was a follow-up to the sensitisation visit to the market by officials of the taskforce a week ago, as well as the stakeholders meeting organised by the Task Force to warn all street hawkers and traders to desist from carrying out their illegal activities around the market. He said most of the suspected miscreants were arrested between 2am and 4am on the Oshodi Bridge between Anthony and Charity bus, stations. Among those arrested were nine under-aged boys, 189 adults and five women. The Task Force boss expr

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday urged lawyers to back his admistration’s fight against corruption and impunity. The President, who acknowledged the lawyers’ professional responsibility of defending their clients, urged them to do so without compromising their professional ethics and the integrity of the legal system – no matter how lucrative the brief may be. President Buhari spoke in Abuja last night at the opening of the 55th Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). The cream of the legal profession, including Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) and Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Mahmud Mohammed, were at the ceremony. He urged lawyers to see corruption as a gross violation of people’s rights, because pervasive corruption in the country has continued to deny the people access to basic needs. “For the masses of our people, the millions still wallowing in want and diseases, corruption is a major reason why they cannot go to school; why

Barely two years after the opening of the reconstruction of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, the contract is stuck – no thanks to the inability of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration to fund the project. Besides, the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) has faulted the re-concession of the road to Julius Berger Plc and Reynolds Construction Company (RCC), despite a pending legal dispute. There was no public bidding for the project, ICRC said. The Jonathan administration pledged to release N50billion for the project in 2013 and 2014. Instead, the government provided only a guarantee to Infrastructure Bank to facilitate the release of N117billion to Berger and RCC. But the two construction giants have been unable to get up to N10billion. The bank, it was learnt, has been trying to limit its risk exposure because of the legal tussle on the project. A source said: “We have fresh challenges confronting the project, including alleged politicisatio

President Muhammadu Buhari will receive the United Nations Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Monday. The meeting is billed to hold at noon. According to a media advisory signed by Mr. Oche Egwa on behalf of the Office of the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, the two leaders will address a joint press conference at the end of the meeting. The UN chief will be hosted to a dinner at the new Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa at 7:00pm.

 3 From JULIANA TAIWO-OBALONYE, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has warned that he will not tolerate any irregularities or extortion from the unemployed as the Federal Government plans to beef police workforce with 10,000 new recruits. The President has also directed the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr. Solomon Arase, to reduce the number of policemen attached to dignitaries, and redeploy them to regular police duties. This is even as the Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), and retired IGP, Sir Mike Okiro‎, said Nigeria is in deficit of 19,500 policemen, adding  that the recruitment of 10,000 personnel as promised by President Buhari on Monday, would not be immediate. The President gave the warning at a meeting with officials of the Ministry of Police Affairs and the Police Service Commission (PSC), at the Presidential Villa, in Abuja, yesterday. He said it was unacceptable a situation where applicants pay bribes before being recruited int

President Muhammadu Buhari has re-affirmed his administration’s determination to end the activities of Boko Haram insurgents soon. He expressed the conviction that the end of the insurgency was in sight, given the added vigour with which the war against the sect was being prosecuted by Nigeria and her allies. The president gave the assurance, when he had audience with the Chadian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Special Envoy of President Idris Deby, Mr. Mousa Faki Mahamat, in his office. He assured that with the higher morale among troops in the frontline against Boko Haram insurgents and their improved logistics, equipment and training, a rapid end to the insurgency should be expected. The president said, however, that Nigeria and Chad must be prepared to make more sacrifices to end the scourge of Boko Haram because the two countries were at the, “very heart” of the insurgency. “We will sustain our effort, and the insurgents will be defeated soon,” he vowed. The spe

A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, has dismissed the suit filed by former governor of the state, Chibuike Amaechi, challenging the constitution of the Justice Odedeji- led Judicial Commission of enquiry by Governor Nyesom Wike, to probe the sale of state assets by the immediate past administration. The trial judge, Justice Simeon Amadi, while delivering judgement yesterday, on Suit Number PHC/187/15 filed by Amaechi, declared that the Commission of Enquiry was not established to investigate the personal activities of the former governor, but to investigate previous actions of government as they affected the people of the state. Justice Amadi ruled that Governor Wike, by the provisions of the law, was empowered to establish the Judicial Commission of Enquiry to investigate previous actions of government. He said there was no law preventing a state government from finding out how her resources were expended. The judge declared that the former governor 

YOU ARE AT: Home » COVER » Empty treasury: You’re lying, Amaechi tells Wike  1 BY  OUR REPORTER   ON AUGUST 21, 2015 COVER ,  NATIONAL Former Governor of Rivers State, Cheif Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has refuted claims by his successor, Nyesom Wike, that he left an empty treasury. Governor Wike had insisted that he met a completely empty treasury when he took over. Only on Wednesday, while trying to justify why he took N30billion bank loans from Zenith and Access banks under 30 days in office, Wike had through his spokesman, Opunabo Inko-Tariah, told a radio station in Port Harcourt that he met an empty treasury. However, Amaechi has openly put a lie to Wike’s claim, saying he left billions of naira in cash and economic assets. In a statement issued by his Media Office yesterday, Amaechi said N7.5billion cash was the balance in the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) account with Skye Bank, FAAC account with Zenith Bank, balances with Access Bank and funds in