The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Akinwumi Adesina has called for the development of Halal beef system to curb the crisis between crop and cattle farmers.

Two persons, including a 60-year-old-man were reportedly shot dead on Sunday evening by suspected cult members in Wadata area of Makurdi, the Benue state capital.

YOLA — Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram insurgents, weekend, attacked a police station, court, primary school and three churches in Fota Village, Lala District at Gombi Local Government Area of Adamawa State, during which 10 people including seven police men were feared killed. Sources from the area indicated that, the gunmen struck from several […]

SCARCITY of kerosene has become a part of the daily challenges many Nigerians face. Unfortunately, their sufferings in sourcing kerosene, a fundamental cooking energy for a majority of Nigerian families do not enjoy the sort of prominence that a day’s shortage of petrol does.

THE 29-year-old businesswoman, Olanike Olaiya, who was allegedly raped by popular Fuji musician, Alhaji Abass Akande, also known as Obesere, has called on police authorities not to allow the matter to be swept under the carpet so that she will not die.

The Bornu Elders, Monday gave a graphic details of how life in Borno and the entire north east has been reduced to hell by the activities insurgents.

One time Nigeria Football Association chairman, Kojo Williams has fumed over comments made by Godfrey Gaiya on the new Eagles Jersey.

AFTER many years of waiting and agitation by the people of South East, President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, laid the foundation stone for the construction of second Niger Bridge linking Asaba in Delta State with Onitsha in Anambra State

THE National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed was unusually reticent when confronted with allegations that his party was tilted towards Islam during a recent interaction with newsmen in Lagos.

How can you talk about the country without Boko Haram forces that are maiming and killing people all over the place? And I heard that the international community is recognizing that there is some sense of civil war.

The Police in Bayelsa State have described as untrue, claims that the abducted 70-year-old Chief Inengite Nitabai, cousin to President Goodluck Jonathan, has been killed in the kidnappers’ den

THE Enugu State Police Command said, yesterday, that its investigations into last Saturday’s invasion of the Enugu Government House was carried out by members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, a group canvassing for the re-declaration of Biafran republic

OVER 200 Itsekiri and Ijaw communities in the Niger Delta affected by the Shell Nigeria Exploration Production Company, SNEPCo, 2011 Bonga Field crude oil spill have agreed to withdraw the suits against the oil company to facilitate payment of compensation to them.

THE Ewugharodo family of Orere town, Ewu-Urhobo, Ughelli South Local Government Area, Delta State, has dragged the Commanding Officer, 222 Battalion, Nigeria Army, Agbarha-Otor before a Delta State High Court for the alleged murder of Efe Ewugharado, a 31-year-old fish farmer and breadwinner by soldiers on December 5, 2013, in Ughelli.

NOW, all eyes are on the opening of the 2014 National Conference, which has been dubbed by some Nigerians as “Jonathan’s” Confab. But it does not really matter what appellation it is given, what is of paramount interest to most Nigerians is what it is out to achieve.