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The federal government on Monday revealed that  the South African Government has granted the request of the Nigerian private airline , Air Peace, to commence commercial flights to Johannesburg, South Africa.   The spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ferdinard Nwonye, disclosed this in a statement. He said that the approval was granted in the process of ascertaining the level of implementation of the Bilateral Air Service Agreement (BASA) between Nigeria and South Africa at the Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) of the 9th Session of the Nigeria/South Africa Bi-National Commission Summit in Pretoria, South Africa on  September 27, 2019. He said: "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs wishes to inform that the South African Government has granted  request for the Nigerian designated airline, Air Peace to commence commercial flights to Johannesburg, South Africa."   Nwonye noted that the proprietor of Air Peace Airlines, Chief Allen Onyema, has als

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Monday expressed the need for government agencies to abide by the rule of law  and refrain from disobeying court orders and judgments. The NHRC Executive Secretary, Tony Ojukwu gave the charge while reacting to the continued detention of the presidential candidate of African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, by the Department of State Services (DSS) despite a court order for his release. Ojukwu, in a statement made available to journalists, said no individual or institution should be allowed to toy with the judgment and decisions of the court, emphasising that “all court orders are binding. and must be respected by affected persons or institutions.” In the statement signed by the Director Corporate Affairs and External Linkages, Lambert Oparah, the executive secretary remarked that the decent way to disagree with a court order is to appeal against same. Ojukwu who frowned on  Sowore'scontinued detent

The federal government on Monday issued the Cross River State government an Outline Business Case (OBC) certificate for the construction of its deep seaport.  The Minister of Transportation, Mr. Chibuike Ameachi, noted that with the OB certificate, the state would move on to the next step of action. Amaechi, in a statement by the ministry's Director Press of Press, Eric Ojiwe, revealed that what the state government has at the moment is the OBC.  According to him, the next move would be to verify all the necessary instruments needed by the ministry and then proceed back to the Infrastructure Concession and Regulatory Commission (ICRC) or the FBC before going to the cabinet for approval.  He observed that the most important thing was that the government is speeding it up so as to enable those states that want to invest in seaports and others to go ahead and do so. On whether the federal government was partnering Cross River State in the deep seapor

More than 11 corpses were on Thursday exhumed in Gbatse, Ushongo Local Government Area of Benue State from kidnappers’ den. Out of the number, six have been identified by relatives of the victims while five are yet to be identified even as it is suspected that many are still in shallow graves. The victims most of them are in their twenties. The ring leader of the syndicate group identified as Iorwuese Kpila has been arrested by the police. According to the police authority, the hideout of Kpila is located at a hill top surrounded by some thatch houses and a shrine It was learnt that few days ago, the district head of Mbagwaza Chief Julius Kpenkpen called his Mbayegh counterpart Chief Nathaniel Hoyo and informed him that two(2) Okada riders in his jurisdiction were missing. The district head of Mbayegh   summoned a meeting of leaders of the two(2) communities and demanded that the family of Kpila should produce him.   Eventually, the suspect showed u