Following what appeared a brief Christmas break, with the visit to six schools, Governor Peter Obi has resumed his visits to schools in Anambra State.

The prevailing peace in Egbelu Agbala, a rural community in Owerri North local council area of Imo State, has been jolted, following the kidnap of one of their prominent sons, Chief Malachy Okechukwu Onu.

EBONYI State police command has arrested three suspects in connection with the brutal murder and beheading of an apprentice nurse in Abakaliki Local Government Area of the state.

OWERRI—Postal services suffered serious setback Tuesday, following the barricading of post offices in Owerri, Imo State capital, by scores of retirees of Nigerian Postal Service, NIPOST.

CHAIRMAN of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Ughelli North Local Government Area chapter, Delta State, Bishop Diamond Emuobor, has blamed the insecurity in the country on bad leadership.

Chief Imam of Lagos State House of Assembly Central Mosque, Mr. Abdul Abdul-Lateef, has called for the amendment of Section 6 (6c) of the 1999 Constitution, if the country is to remain an indivisible entity.

DELTA State Police Command, yesterday, said it had re-arrested some of the prisoners who escaped from Federal Prison, Ogwashi-Uku, while search had also been intensified for others.

Delta State University, DELSU, Abraka, yesterday got a major boost, with Urhobo Progress Union, UPU, of Northern California, USA, donating several computer accessories running into millions of naira to the institution.

BY SIMON EBEGBULEM BENIN—RESIDENTS of Textile Mill Road in Benin City, Edo State, have vowed to protest the alleged refusal by the state Ministry of Environment to clear the heap of refuse on the road, even after officials of the state Task Force on Environment, allegedly collected about N50,000 from landlords in the area. Vanguard […]

Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has alerted the nation over alleged desperate plans by the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, to discredit and silence key opposition leaders involved in the ongoing plans to form a formidable platform to confront the party during the 2015 elections.

The Police Command in Delta State, has said that no fewer than 91 kidnappers and armed robbery suspects were killed by the police between January 2012 to January 5, this year.

A teenager, Garuba Damilola, yesterday appeared before a Tinubu Magistrate’s Court in Lagos, for allegedly attempting to defraud the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation, NDIC, of N143,000.

TWO HUNDRED students have been awarded bursary worth N6 million by Ochiagha Reagan Ufomba, Abia State 2011 governorship candidate of All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, with a charge on them not to disappoint their parents and guardians.

THE mother of Nigeria’s foremost journalist and late Editor in-Chief of Newswatch Magazine, Dele Giwa, Madam Elekia Aishat Giwa, 87, is dead.