THE EXECUTIVE Secretary, Anti-corruption Network and former member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Dino Melaye, Monday night, in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, said he escaped assassination attempt as unidentified men in a black Golf car shot at his car.

THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, has threatened a showdown with the Vice Chancellor, Professor Boniface Egboka, over alleged violation of the directive of the visitor, President Goodluck Jonathan, on the appointment of Senate members into the Governing Council of the institution.

BY ANAYO OKOLI UMUAHIA — ABIA State governor, Chief Theodore Orji, has restated the determination of his government to ensure that kidnappers never returned to Aba in particular and the state  generally. In fact, the governor boasted that the state was fully prepared for armed robbers and kidnappers. The governor said it was because the […]

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BENIN—AHEAD of Saturday’s local government elections in Edo State, the Oba of Benin, Oba Erediauwa, has met with chairmanship candidates in Edo South senatorial district of the state and advised that they should reside in their respective council headquarters when they are voted into power.

AN eight-year-old boy waiting at the finish line to give his father a hug was among three people killed and more than 150 injured when two explosions rocked the Boston Marathon.