A Coroner court sitting in Yaba, Lagos, which is investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of the Thisday Newspaper Editorial Board member, Mr. Abayomi Ogundeji, yesterday ordered the immediate arrest of the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Dopemu Police Station, and the Officer Commanding (OC) Onilekere Police Post for failing to appear before it.

By Eric Ugbor ABA—TEN Persons in cluding two policemen, a soldier and a pregnant woman were yesterday killed when security agents and kidnappers clashed in different parts of Aba South and Obingwa Local Government Areas of Abia state. This is coming barely one month after hoodlums suspected to be kidnappers sacked the entire police station […]

By Peter Duru MAKURDI — Nigerian students have urged the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to peacefully resolve the contending issues that have led to the closure of Nigerian universities in the last three months in order to save the nation’s educational system from total collapse. The placard-carrying students, who […]

A Benin High Court has ordered President Umaru Yar’Adua, to arrest and detain the vessels, MT CONCEP and MT Molap Edurance, the crew and all persons found on board for illegally evacuating the content of the vessel, MT Akuada (MT KUA), impounded early this year by the military Joint Task Force (JTF) over an alleged illegal bunkering activities.

THERE was tension and panic in some parts of Port Harcourt yesterday, as hundreds of reformed militants trained in different vocational skills by Rivers State Social and Rehabilitation Committee at its centre at Okehi went on rampage.