By Emeka Mamah

Kaduna – The United Nations International Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) says the trafficking on women and children is the greatest violation of human rights in the world today.

UNICEF said that thousands of women and children are trafficked across borders throughout the world, pointing out that no individual country can curb [...]

Edo State government has threatened to shut down one of the foreign firms in the state, Okomu Oil Palm Company, unless it paid the over N300 million realised from illegal felling of trees in the state’s government forest reserve.

Foreign in vestors have faulted the downgrading of Nigeria’s credit rating by Standard and Poor’s, saying that on-going banking reforms are a positive one for the nation’s economy.

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole and the leader of the Federal House of Representatives, Col. Tunde Akogun (rtd), engaged themselves in a war of words over allegation that the latter abducted officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) posted to Aiyegunle, his home town, to conduct the House of Assembly re-run election for Akoko Edo constituency 1 last weekend.

A gang of robbers in the early hours of yesterday stormed a commercial bank in Omoku, Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni local government area of Rivers State, blowing off some sections of the building with dynamites and shooting sporadically into the building.

OPERATIVES of the military Joint Task Force, code-named Operation Restore Hope, yesterday morning arrested a 9-man heavily armed militant group at a popular hotel along Otu-Jeremi road in Udu local government area of Delta State.

By Anayo Okoli

Umuahia – GOVERNOR Theodore Orji of Abia state said that the state still has a debt profile of $29 million, which he said is affecting the speed of development in the state. The debt, he said was making it difficult to live up to expectation of  the people.

Governor Orji, who spoke [...]

…promises to tackle kidnapping in S-East

By Kingsley Omonobi

Abuja – Inspector General of Police, Ogbonna Okechukwu Onovo said yesterday that henceforth, all aide de camps (ADC’s) attached to governors or political office holders are only entitled to spend a maximum period of three years on the assignment after which they must [...]

By Umar Yusuf

YOLA  – The six states in the North-East geo-political zone received over N4 billion as Value Added Tax (VAT) from the Federal Inland Revenue Service in June this year.

The figure is made up of N2.438.5 billion for the states and N2.550.68 billion for their Local Government Councils.

The Tax Controller, Bauchi [...]

By Vincent Ujumadu

AWKA- WORRIED by he frequent rate of armed robbery and kidnapping in Anambra state, a member of House of Representatives from the state, Mrs. Uche Ekwunife has called on the State and Federal Governments to take immediate steps to save the state from further embarrassment, arguing that most people now dread visiting [...]