By Chidi Nkwopara OWERRI—Wife of detained leader of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Mrs. Ngozi Uwazuruike, has expressed serious concern over the safety of her husband. Mrs. Uwazuruike, who addressed journalists in Owerri at the weekend, pointed out that the inability or refusal of prison authorities to produce […]

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, the Action Congress, AC, and the Alliance for Credible Elections, ACE, have criticised the Senate’s rejection of political independence for the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, even as they have called for the sack of the INEC Chairman, Professor Maurice Iwu.

By Kingsley Omonob ABUJA—Following alleged robbery attacks on two petrol stations along Airport road, in the FCT, authorities of the Lugbe Police division, have sent instructions to the owners of petrol stations in the area to carry their money to police stations for safe-keeping any time they are incapacitated from going to the banks to […]

By Vincent Ujumadu AWKA— A Hydro Geologist and Vice Chancellor of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Professor Boniface Egboka has raised an alarm over the condition of the ailing 50 year–old Niger Bridge, with a warning that the bridge may collapse anytime soon, if nothing is done urgently to save the situation. Egboka, a Fellow of […]

By Etop Ekanem LAGOS — GOVERNOR Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has urged Nigerians to intensify prayer for divine intervention in the affairs of the nation so that citizens will be able to live in any part of the country and practise their religion without harassment. Fashola made the appeal in a message he sent […]

By  Simon Ebegbulem BENIN—THE Benin Monarch, Oba Erediauwa, has condemned the proposed ceding of Uhumnwonde and oil rich Orhionmwon local government areas of Edo State to the Central senatorial district of the state in the new constituency delineation exercise by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Speaking through the Benin Forum, an umbrella body of […]

By Gabriel Enogholase BENIN—The Dr. Samuel Ogbemudia-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State has described the claim of factionalisation in the party by eleven members of the party in the State House of Assembly as an afterthought and misleading. In a statement in Benin weekend by the factional Publicity Secretary of […]

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THE unattractive rates in the Nigerian fixed income market have begun to take its toll on the country’s economy, as investors are moving their funds en masse to alternative investment destinations, particularly to neighbouring West African countries.

Residents of Oke-Afa, Isolo, are presently on a war path with armed robbers who they said have frequently launched attacks in the area, robbing them and also raping their women.