Following the recent crack within the top echelon of the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, its leader, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, has announced the appointment of new officers to replace those sacked from the group.

OBONG Victor Attah, former governor of Akwa Ibom State, has supported the zoning of the state’s governorship seat to Eket senatorial district.

THE All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, kicked off its zonal rally in Sokoto, Sokoto State with inauguration of Northwest Zone Committee, at a very elaborate gathering attended by well meaning Nigerians in the party, including the chairman and former Governor of Edo State, Chief John Odigie Oyegun; Governor of Kano State, Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso; Governor of Zamfara State, Alhaji Abdul-Aziz Yari; Chairman of the Progressive Governors’ Forum, PGF, and Governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole and other leaders of the party. They were hosted by the Governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko.

All the Archdeacons in Anglican Diocese on the Niger have given Anambra State 30 days within to bring to book those who destroyed their church building or face protest.

By Henry Umoru ABUJA — Captain Sabo Sambo, younger brother of Vice President Namadi Sambo and son of Mallam Nasir el-Rafai, former Federal Capital Territory minister, were just two on an endless list of those who have lost their lives in ghastly road crashes on Abuja Airport Road. Yesterday, two persons were again seriously injured […]

BENIN CITY—GOVERNORAdams Oshiomhole of Edo State, yesterday met with leaders of All Progressives Congress, APC in Edo Central senatorial district of the state over the exit of the former Foreign Affairs Minister, Chief Tom Ikimi from the party.

GE has said its U.K.-based distributed power provider, Clarke Energy, is supplying GE’s new diesel engines to Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc, to boost the company’s industrial operations.

The nation’s power supply which has witnessed marginal improvement in recent times may nosedive, once again, as the Ewekoro Power Plant has been sealed up on the orders of a Federal High Court sitting in Abeokuta.

Expectations were high when in 2003 the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, awarded the Oil Mining Lease, OML 13, among 23 others as part of the Federal Government’s Marginal Field Programme.

Kaduna State Governor, Alhaji Ramalan Yero yesterday paid N6.738 billion backlog of pensions and gratuity to 12,484 retired civil servants and next of kin of deceased workers in the state.

The outgoing executive of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) Mosimi Depot, has denied an allegation by one Mr. Adeleke Dada that, it misappropriated N500 million belonging to the association.

ACTING Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba, has ordered a thorough investigation of the immediate and remote causes of the death of the Deputy Chairman of The Sun Newspapers Publication, Mr. Dimgba Igwe, who died on Saturday, September 6, 2014 at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH

The Peoples Democratic Party PDP and its main rival, the All Progressives Congress, APC, will today inspect the electoral materials used for the August 9, 2014 governorship poll at the state’s headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC.

The success of our democratic institution depends largely on our understanding and re-evaluation of the Nigerian Equation as well as the development of a clearly defined National ideology.

Lagos State will likely commence oil and gas exploration by next year, following the large deposit of oil found in some parts of the state like Epe, Ibeju-Lekki, and the Badagry axis.