The management of NNPC says it has not stopped importation of petroleum products as reported by a section of the local and international media.

BY LAWANI MIKAIRU Nigeria is to sign Bilateral Air Service Agreement, BASA, with the State of Israel. This is the first ever air service agreement between the two countries. Previous attempts to sign BASA in 2005 and 2012 were unsuccessful. The agreement is expected to be signed this week during President Jonathan’s Pilgrimage to the […]

MOVE by the Taraba State government to fly out the ailing governor of the state, Governor Danbaba Suntai overseas for further medical treatment was said to have suffered setback against the backdrop that the travelling passport of the governor was reportedly in possession of two of his top associates who have refused to release it

A 28-year-old man, Monday Igbasan, who allegedly brandished a gun publicly, was Thursday charged before a Yaba Magistrates’ Court, Lagos.

Igbasan, who lives at No. 32B, Bello St., Epe, Lagos, was arraigned on a two-count charge of illegal possession of firearms and breach of public peace.

Tragedy strucK, Saturday, in Ijoko, Ifo Local Government in Ogun State when an articulated truck crushed a yet-to-be-identified pregnant woman and four others to death. The multiple accident also left three critically injured.

SOME policemen in Akure, the Ondo State capital, weekend, beat up an officer of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, for driving an unregistered vehicle.

Weeks after outsmarting Tony Nwoye for the PDP ticket, Prince Nicholas Ukachukwu entered the state to a rousing welcome from his supporters last Saturday.

A close associate of Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State and Director General of De Raufs, a volunteer group championing the second term ambition of Governor Aregbesola, Mr. Amitolu Shittu has raised the alarm that his life was under threat for his organisation’s support for Aregbesola’s re-election bid.

President Goodluck Jonathan, the senate president, David Mark, and the national chairman of People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, have condoled with Senator Ayogu Eze over the death of his mother, Mrs. Paulina Eze.

Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State has said that the absence of opposition parties in Enugu State was attributable to the wholesome acceptance of the policies and programmes of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP- led government by the people of the state.