Nigeria’s Chinua Achebe, often called the father of modern African literature, released his first major work in years Thursday with a long-awaited memoir centred on the war that nearly destroyed his nation.

Health workers under the auspices of Joint Health Sector Union, JOHESU yesterday called of its nationwide strike following the order of Industrial Court to suspend the action pending the determination of the case before it.

…Flood has washed away my farmland
BAuchi—IT was a tale of two homes, Wednesday, in Bauchi when the wife of a peasant farmer gave birth to quadruplets at home with help from a traditional midwife, while that of a lawmaker was delivered of triplets through a N250,000-gulping cesarean section.

The Senate on Wednesday suggested life imprisonment for perpetrators of terrorism acts and 10 years in jail for sponsors and financiers of terrorism.

A pregnant woman, was, yesterday, shot dead during police pursuit of a car used by suspected robbers in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.