SPEAKER of Rivers State House of Assembly, Otelemaba Amachree, yesterday, said he had uncovered an alleged plot to assassinate Governor Chibuike Amaechi, some lawmakers and prominent government officials in the state.

Nigeria’s under-20 men football team, the Flying Eagles, arrived in Germany on Tuesday for camping ahead of the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup finals in Turkey.

Incumbent President of the Athletic Federation of Nigeria Solomon Ogba on Tuesday battled in an energy sapping election to return as the President of the board by defeating Hon. Ibrahim Gusau 7votes to 3 after the first three voting failed to produce a winner as they tied at five votes.

BY IFEANYI OKOLIE LAGOS — The Federal High Court in Lagos, yesterday, sentenced Sunny Ade’s former guitarist, Fatoke Abiodun, who was arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, to three years imprisonment for drug trafficking. Abiodun, who was brought before Justice S. Seidu of the Federal High Court pleaded guilty to one count […]

CITING Section 305 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Goodluck Jonathan, last night declared a state of emergency in three key flashpoint states of Northeastern Nigeria wracked by activities of the Boko Haram and Ansaru terrorist insurgents – Borno, Yobe and Adamawa States.

HOW has Nigeria degenerated to this low level of animal behaviour of killing one another across the country? Nigerian leaders appear helpless. When as a people we collectively surrendered our sovereignty to the state to take care of all, it is the expectation that the state will protect us all. It will act in the best interest of all of us. Nigerians are afraid of their safety in almost every part of the country and the North East in particular. At a time, many well meaning Nigerians thought that the problem was about corruption and power failure, but now insecurity has taken over. 

Residents of five villages in Yabo Local Government Area of Sokoto State got the shock of their lives at the weekend when a wind storm struck and destroyed 110 houses. Presently the residents are still counting their losses, especially in the villages that were completely razed by the raging storm.

THREE sections of a road project on Owerri-Umuahia in Imo state yesterday failed all tests to ascertain the level of compliance in the execution of contracts as specified by the Federal Ministry of Works.

A building materials merchant in Olo community, Enugu State who was kidnapped by a yet-to-be identified gunmen alongside his maternal brother who just came back from Europe, has reportedly been strangled to death by his abductors.

The President of the Church of Christ In all Nations, COCIN, Rev. Soja Bewarang has called on the Federal Government to reverse the process initiated towards granting amnesty to the Boko Haram sect.