A 37 year-old man, who was arrested alongside a mother of three and four others with 16.51kg narcotics at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, has said he had no regrets over his action, blaming his indulgence on frustration.

FIRE outbreak from an oil blowout on the Riapele-Forcados Trunkline belonging to the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NPDC, a subsidiary of NNPC, has reportedly killed a mother and three children in Odidi, Warri South West Local Government Area, Delta State.

Kogi Police Command said on Monday that it had placed certain categories of politicians in the state under surveillance, as part of efforts to ensure peaceful conduct of April 11 elections. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Shola Adebayo who announced this to newsmen in Lokoja, said that the move was in response to reports reaching the police that some politicians were planning to attack INEC staff on the day of the election.

BENIN—AHEAD of weekend’s state House of Assembly election in Edo State, the state Police Command has warned that it would not entertain any form of thuggery and advised politicians to abide by the rules of the game.

THE choices between the people of Adamawa state in the April 11 gubernatorial election are as clear as they are extremes. The contest which in reality is between four contenders, is at the same time a two-way game between what is right and its opposite. The four frontline candidates are Mohammed Jibrilla Bindow of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Dr. Ahmed Mohammed Modibbo of the Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM), Engr. Marcus Gundiri of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and, of course, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). To any fair mind, the ideal choice, from the roll call above, is very clear.

Two bomb attacks early Tuesday shook Ukraine’s second city Kharkiv, near the Russian border and the frontline of the country’s war, causing some damage but no casualties.

Days after becoming the world’s oldest person, American Gertrude Weaver has died at the age of 116, US media reported. Weaver died Monday morning of complications from pneumonia, reports said. Weaver passed away at the Silver Oaks Health and Rehabilitation Center in the southern state of Arkansas, local TV station KATV reported. Weaver was pronounced […]

The Islamic State group has beheaded four men for armed robbery and murder in the northern Iraqi province of Nineveh, according to an online propaganda video seen by AFP Tuesday.

THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate in Delta State, Mr. Ifeanyi Okowa, has been asked to state what his administration will do for the Itsekiri nation, if he wins the gubernatorial election which comes up on Saturday.

As the global population rises over seven billion, a new report has shown that the number of deaths from hypertension, stroke, heart attacks and other circulatory diseases is on the rise, climbing from 12.3 million deaths to 17.3 million.