CONFUSION over alleged irregularities in the distribution of Itsekiri benefits in the Federal Government’s Amnesty programme for Niger Delta continued, yesterday, with the Itsekiri National Youth Council, INYC, led by Mr. Esimaje Awani, calling for stoppage of further payment of Itsekiri beneficiaries’ monthly stipends through the David Tonwe’s faction of INYC.

A Delta State High Court sitting in Asaba, yesterday, sentenced a 22-year old student of Delta State Polytechnic, Ogwashi-Uku, Ndudi Ogwu, to 14 years imprisonment with hard labour for kidnapping a female nurse while on her way back home

DESPITE regulations, software piracy has continued to grow in geometric progression across the globe, causing more economic harm than good.

Recently, a new study by the Business Software Alliance, BSA, the leading advocate for the global software industry has revealed that the commercial value of unlicensed software in Nigeria exceeded $287 million in 2013.

THE permutations by the All Progressives Congress, APC, was that the party would win the senatorial bye election held in Delta Central senatorial district , Delta state on October 12 , 2013, if Chief Great Ogboru joined forces with it to battle the People’s Democratic Party, PDP.

LAGOS — A building at Pedro Police Barracks, in Shomolu area of Lagos, collapsed Monday night, rendering at least 30 families homeless.

Not that when Lamidi Adedibu lived he lacked honour and veneration but that it was tainted adulation. Only his kind, those who do not subscribe to any code of civilised behaviour, could sing his praises as the godfather of “amala politics.”He had only one goal in politics: to take, by crook or hook, fire or thunder as much of what belonged to the public as he wanted.

The Sports Writers Association of Nigeria, SWAN, Lagos chapter, has called on Nigerians and football fans to remain positive about the Super Eagles, declaring that they gave a fair representation and were gallant even in their defeat to France in the second round of the Brazil 2014 World Cup.

AT a recent private engagement with the media, a prince of the Sokoto caliphate, former aide de camp to former President Ibrahim Babangida and current National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) lamented that terrorists have succeeded in changing the way Nigerians see and relate with each other but observed the only way to defeat them is for all of us to remain united in constructive engagements and mutual dialogues and confront their threat as one united nation under God.

More than 50 people, including 16 members of the Vigilante outfit, also known as Civilian JTF, were killed, yesterday when a Peugeot 505 saloon car conveying charcoal and wired with Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDs, exploded in the busy Monday Market in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. About 68 others were seriously injured.

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) will not stop Coach Stephen Keshi from vacating his post as Super Eagles coach, after the ‘Big Boss’, as Keshi is fondly called expressed his desire to step down following Nigeria’s ouster from the World Cup.