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CDHR storms BEDC Warri office, gives 14-day ultimatum over illegal light committees

CDHR storms BEDC Warri office, gives 14-day ultimatum over illegal light committees Human rights group demands town hall meetings across Delta, uniform billing, end to alleged customer extortion By Ezekiel Kagbala The Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR), Delta State Branch, has given the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) 14 days to convene town hall meetings across its operational units in Delta State and address alleged violations of electricity consumers’ rights. The human rights organisation issued the ultimatum during a visit to BEDC’s Warri Regional Office on Tuesday, where it demanded the immediate dissolution of alleged illegal community electricity committees accused of exploiting consumers and obstructing direct engagement between customers and the distribution company. The delegation, led by the Delta State Chairman of CDHR, Comrade Derrick Oritsematosan Agberen, alongside the State Publicity Secretary, Comrade Nosa Overseey, s...

THE FIVE BODIES RECOVERED FROM KULA BOAT MISHAP AS SEARCH AND RESCUE EFFORT CONTINUES

Five Bodies Recovered From Kula Boat Mishap As Search And Rescue Effort Continues. Five out of the seven bodies of victims of Tuesday’s boat mishap at Robertkiri, along the Kula waterways in Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State, have been recovered. The bodies, recovered on Thursday by the Search and Rescue Team, include that of the Kula CDC Secretary, Mr. Davies Opiri, and a personnel of a local security outfit known as the Amama Soldiers. Other bodies recovered were identified as Endwell Ameme, Aboy Umeonu and Nye Oriye. The bodies of David Sukubo and another member of the Amama Soldiers were yet to be found as at Thursday evening, as search and rescue operations continue today. It would be recalled that a tugboat towing a 200,000-barrel capacity oil vessel operated by the Ibeto Group from the Kula coastal waters caused a speedboat conveying 15 persons to capsize on Tuesday 20th October 2026, drowning everyone on board. Eight persons were rescued a...

Military clears air on troops’ clash with police personnel in Plateau

The Special Task Force Operation Enduring Peace (JTF-OPEP) has cleared the air on the recent encounter between its troops and personnel of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) in Bassa Local Government Area (LGA) of Plateau. The media officer of the operation, Capt. Polycarp Oteh, in a statement on Monday in Jos, said that the encounter between the two security agencies was misconstrued to be a clash. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that videos and photographs of an alleged clash between the military and police personnel went viral on social media a few days ago. It was alleged that troops had prevented the police personnel from going after some criminals in the area. But Oteh said that troops only responded to a distress call, following a sporadic shooting at Mai Farin Moto, Maraban Dere and adjoining communities of the area. “On Oct. 20, troops of our Sector 3 responded to a distress call reporting sporadic gunfire in Mai Farin Moto, Maraban Dere and adjoining communities. This is...

Alleged phone-tapping: Court rejects El-Rufai’s no-case submission

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday dismissed a no-case submission filed by former Gov. Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State in his ongoing trial over alleged unlawful interception of the telephone communications of the National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu. Justice Joyce Abdulmalik, in a ruling, held that the Department of State Services (DSS) had placed before the court sufficient evidence to warrant the court to call on the ex-governor to enter his defence if he so desires. The judge, therefore, ordered El-Rufai, the sole defendant in the charge, to enter his defence. The defendant had opted for a no-case submission after the DSS closed its case by calling two witnesses. El-Rufai, through his counsel, Akinyemi Aremu, had urged the court to hold that the prosecution had failed to establish a case requiring the former governor to enter a defence. In response, the DSS lawyer, Oluwole Aladedoye, SAN, adopted their counter affidavit in opposition to the no-case submiss...

Isoko Mourns As Nigerian-American Doctor, Austin Orette Dies In Texas

Isoko Mourns As Nigerian-American Doctor, Austin Orette Dies In Texas The Nigerian-American physician and Delta South senatorial aspirant reportedly died in Houston, Texas, as the cause of his death remains undisclosed. The Isoko Nation has been thrown into mourning following reports of the death of Dr Austin Orette, a Nigerian-American physician and politician from Owhelogbo, Isoko North Local Government Area of Delta State. Orette reportedly died in Houston, Texas, United States, with news of his passing announced on Saturday, October 24, 2026, by his media strategist. However, the circumstances surrounding his reported death, including the cause, have not been publicly disclosed. Before his reported passing, Orette was pursuing his ambition to represent Delta South Senatorial District in the Nigerian Senate under the platform of the African Democratic Congress (ADC). His political aspiration had been accompanied by a dispute over the party's senato...

2027: Sowore slams NDC, accuses Obi of renting party every election

The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has criticised the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) and accused its presidential candidate Peter Obi of renting political parties during election seasons. Sowore alleged that Obi’s political moves were not aimed at liberating Nigerians but at helping the ruling establishment deflect public anger and avoid accountability ahead of the 2027 general election. In a statement posted on X, Sowore accused the NDC of exploiting the political process, claiming that its leaders made ₦9 billion from the sale of nomination forms while running the party from their homes. “The same opportunists and packaged political frauds who made ₦9 billion from selling nomination forms while running a political party from their living rooms,” Sowore wrote, referring to the NDC. He described Obi as an unprincipled politician who, according to him, changes political platforms ahead of elections without offering a genuine challenge to ...