An outbreak of epidemic confirmed to be cholera has hit two local government areas of Adamawa State. The Councils are Maiha and Fufore. 16 persons are reported to have died so far from the disease.

A teacher at the College of Education Warri, Mr. James Omotete, (44) last Tuesday beat his seven years old son to death for allowing his girlfriend access into his house which resulted in the lost of the only N20,000.00 cash left with him for feeding till the end of the month.

FORMER Vice-Chancellor of the University of Benin, Prof. Emmanuel Nwanze has been evicted from the Vice-Chancellor’s Guest House by the authorities of the institution.

A senior lecturer in Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO) {names withheld}, has been arraigned before Magistrate Court 2, Owerri, on a three-count charge of attempting to have unlawful carnal knowledge of his student (names withheld) without her consent.

Imo State Police Command has spread its dragnet to apprehend a middle aged man, Nnamdi Obioha Amadi, from Amauzari, Isiala Mbano local council area of Imo State, for allegedly setting his pregnant wife, Chibuzor, ablaze.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, said yesterday that it had arrested three of the five former Managing Directors of banks sacked last week by the Central Bank of Nigeria for questioning, just as the apex bank also had guaranteed all foreign loans and correspondent banks lines of the affected banks.

Residents of Owerri were Wednesday morning treated to a morbid spectacle as the police command paraded four suspects and the decomposing head of an 18-year old Chinwe Doris Perpetua Obieri, who was murdered for ritual purposes.

You seem to be so much scared of the Niger Delta situation, why are you so much afraid about what is going on in the creeks of the region?

OWwerri -The Bishop of Okigwe, Anglican Communion, Dr. Edward Osuegbu, has called on the Federal Government to enter into meaningful and constructive dialogue with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) leadership, so as to end the current industrial action by the lecturers. Bishop Osuegbu made the appeal in his message to the Anglican Youth […]

By Tina Akannam Dutse – Jigawa State Independent Electoral Commission Chairman, Alhaji Alili Galadima, has announced  that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has given approval for the creation of additional 1,600 polling units in Jigawa state before  the 2011 general elections. Galadima who disclosed this in Dutse while speaking with newsmen said the creation […]

By Peter Duru Makurdi – Nigeria’s Ambassador to Canada, Prof. Iyorwuese Hagher, has pleaded with striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call off its industrial action in the interest of helpless Nigerian students. Hagher who urged the striking lecturers to return to the classrooms assured them the Yar’Adua-led administration would not fail to […]

By Aliyu Dangida Dutse – Jigawa state government has approved the release of N2.3 billion for the renovation of 400 primary and post-primary schools across the state, Commissioner of Education, Science and Technology, Professor Rukayyatu Ahmad Rufai, has disclosed. Briefing newsmen in her office, Prof. Rukayya said that out of the fund 300 sets of […]

By Vincent Ujumadu Awka – The Anambra State Fadama III baseline survey has begun, even as the  Permanent Secretary in the State Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr. Sam Okiwe, has called on those involved in the five-day baseline survey training for the Project to endeavour to achieve the goals of the programme. Okiwe […]

By Victor Ahiuma-Young Lagos – Concerned  by the declining cooking culture among urban Nigerian girls and young women, a group of women under the aegis of “Abia Daughters (AD) International, is organising a cooking competition involving all Nigerian girls between the ages of 18 and 25 to prepare Nigerian delicacies. Tagged “Daughters in the kitchen,” […]

MEMBERS of the oil and gas communities in Delta State, under the auspices of the Host Communities (HOSTCOM), yesterday asked Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) to publish its annual audited accounts to allow for autonomous enquiry into its expenditure.