Briga News Nigeria Policemen attached to the Onikan Division of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested one Abubakar Haruna, 27, for stealing transformer cables. The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, made this known in a message shared on his ‘X account on Saturday. He wrote, ” Following a distress call, officers…
Briga News Nigeria A 60-year-old Catholic priest has died after his robes caught fire from a candle-light ceremony during an Easter vigil. The priest, Javier Sánchez died from the horrific injuries of the burns in Zaragoza city, Spain. According to Daily Mail, he suffered 50 per cent burns in the freak accident over the Easter…
Briga News Nigeria Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri alongside his wife, Dr. (Mrs.) Gloria Diri, today voted at Kalama-owei in Sampou community, Kolokuma/Opokuma in the ongoing Local Government council election in the State. Governor Diri voted in Ward 6, polling Unit 4 in the community. The Governor who described the voting process as hitch-free,…
Briga News Nigeria Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has issued a firm directive against the impersonation of members on a purported fake list of caretaker committee members for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). This list, which gained traction on social media and was reported in national newspapers on Thursday, was officially denounced by Fubara as…
By Keneware Emmanuel Secretary General of the revered and respectable Ogulagha Kingdom Youth Council, OKYC, Comr. Efe Alaye has rolled out barrels of gratitude and appreciation to all and sundry who in text, phone calls and in various social media platforms extend their goodwill messages and prayers to him on his birth anniversary. According to…
By Peter Jonah Comr. PUKON EBIELAMENE NERISSA is an indigene of Odimodi Community, lduwini Clan, Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State. She had her University education at Niger Delta University graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Fisheries and Master’s degree in Fisheries Biology And Management ‘Msc in view’ from same school. While in school…
Briga News Nigeria The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Christopher Musa, on Wednesday, said the traditional ruler of Ewu-Urhobo Kingdom in Delta State, His Royal Majesty Clement Oghenerukevwe Ikolo, Urhukpe 1, took the best decision by turning himself in after being declared wanted by the military in connection with the killing of 17 soldiers in…
Briga News Nigeria ••Gov. Diri Assures On More Infrastructure For Institution The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN), the body saddled with the responsibility of approving medical programmes in Nigerian universities, has accredited the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) programme at the state-owned Bayelsa Medical University. The approval enables the medical…
Briga News Nigeria The Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio has written legal luminary, Femi Falana SAN on his petition over the suspension of the Senator representing Bauchi Central Senatorial District, Abdul Ningi. Akpabio, through his counsel Kalu Uche SAN in a reply addressed to Falana and Falana Chambers queried why Ningi’s lawyers accused him of…
Briga News Nigeria The immediate past Governor of Abia State, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu has informed members of Abia State PDP caucus that he has no plan to leave the party but will rather stay with others to rebuild it. Speaking during a well attended caucus meeting held at the new party secretariat at Onyerubi Crescent,…