IT is possibly only in Nigerian elections that opponents and proponents of candidates proudly offer threats and counter threats as the only selling points of their candidates. We are seeing more threats as people jostle for relevance in the 2015 elections.

The Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta code named Operation Pulo Shield, has decried what it described as community shielding of crude oil thieves in the region.

THE crisis rocking the Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, took a dramatic turn with one person feared dead following gunshot wounds he allegedly sustained during the constitution amendment convention held in Bayelsa State, last week.

UNSPECIFIED number of staff of Abia State Polytechnic, Aba, will soon lose their job.

Elections for the positions of Presidents and vice Presidents of sports federations have been scheduled for tomorrow at the National Stadium, Abuja.

EDO State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has alleged that Governor Adams Oshiomhole sacked the former Commissioner for Secondary, Technical and Higher Education, Mr. Ekpenisi Omoriotiomwan, from office over alleged sharing of N320 million belonging to the State Universal Basic Education, SUBEB, by five senior officials of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN.

Nigeria will today begin its quest to qualify for the Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II , when it plays Cote d´Ivoire and Lesotho in pool D of the Group IV qualifier in Cairo, Egypt.

Saturday, I came across this newspiece that said a Nigerian player had offered 50,000 dollars to his colleagues if they won a match.

*Denies responsibility for scarcity of new notes BY MICHAEL EBOH The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, yesterday, said it was working with security agencies to begin the arrest of persons engaged in the trading of new naira notes. The CBN in a statement by Mr. Ugochukwu Okoroafor, Director, Corporate Communications, said it was aware of […]

Robust support came for President Goodluck Jonathan from South-South and South-East governors, who yesterday, gave a strong endorsement of his leadership and charged him to confront terror wherever it may be found in the land.