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Contrasting treatments for two professors accused of sexual harassment, other top stories from South-south

Nigeria, Feb. 19 -- Three nude videos of a female diploma student at the University of Calabar were played in the open at a Federal High Court, Abuja, as evidence in the trial of Cyril Ndifon, the sus... Read More


Why there's power outage in Akwa Ibom - PHED

Nigeria, Feb. 16 -- The Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHEDC) has attributed the current power outage in Akwa Ibom state to a "fault in (the) Aba/Itu 132kv line." The electricity dis... Read More


Police officer faces sanction over alleged N2.4 million extortion

Nigeria, Feb. 16 -- The Commissioner of Police in Delta State, Abiniwonda Olufemi has removed a Divisional Crime Officer (DCO) in Abraka from his post over an allegation of extorting N2,465,000 from a... Read More


Police recommend for dismissal officers who extorted $3000 from Nigerians

Nigeria, Feb. 14 -- The police in Rivers State said they have recommended for dismissal three of their officers who abducted two Nigerians and extorted $3, 000 from them. The police, which disclosed ... Read More


Sex-for-admission allegation, police extrajudicial killing, other top stories from South-south last week

Nigeria, Feb. 12 -- From a professor putting pressure on a female student to trade her virginity for admission to a man beheading his girlfriend, and a top PDP leader predicting the 'death' of the par... Read More


Police operatives detained over alleged killing of vigilante leaders, two others

Nigeria, Feb. 11 -- The police in Delta State have detained some police officers for allegedly shooting dead leaders of a vigilante group in Idjerhe kingdom, Ethiope West Local Government Area of the ... Read More


Two Akwa Ibom kidnap victims yet to be freed 14 days after

Nigeria, Feb. 9 -- Two out of three persons abducted by gunmen at a relaxation centre in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, are still in captivity, 14 days later. The three victims were abducted on 27 January at ... Read More


NNPP governorship candidate lists conditions to return to APC

Nigeria, Feb. 9 -- The 2023 governorship candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) in Akwa Ibom State, John Akpanudoedehe, has described as "blackmail" the news that he has joined the Peoples ... Read More


Re-run Election: YPP candidates in Akwa Ibom defeat PDP in NASS, state assembly election

Nigeria, Feb. 5 -- The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Emmanuel Ukpong-Udo of the Young Progressive Party (YPP) as the winner of the re-run election for the Ikono/Ini Fed... Read More


Edo 2024: Former NBA president Akpata picks LP governorship form

Nigeria, Feb. 3 -- A former president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Olumide Akpata, has obtained the governorship nomination and expression of interest forms of the Labour Party (LP) for Edo ... Read More