A young man was reportedly killed, Tuesday, following a clash between two suspected rival cult groups in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital.

ELEVEN persons were confirmed dead, yesterday, at Biase, Southern District of Cross River State, as a 13-seater commuter bus and a truck had a head-on collision on Calabar-Ikom Road.

No fewer than 800 athletes including 400 students from about 64 secondary schools in Anambra State are set to participate in the first AFN/Anambra Golden League athletics meet that will hold today at the Rojenny Sports Village in Oba, Onitsha.

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has said the issuance of the practice licences to Nigerian lawyers will now be based on their participation in the Continuing Professional Development Programmes, CPDP. Making the disclosure at the just concluded national executive council (NEC) meeting of the association in Sokoto, NBA President, Mr Augustine Alegeh, SAN, said though, the practising licence will be issued this year on the basis of payment of Bar Practising Fees, he added that future issuance will be different.

One of the issues President Muhammadu Buhari has promised Nigerians to tackle is endemic corruption in the polity. Before assuming office, he was passionate about his stance against corruption that he said it is either Nigerians kills corruption or corruption will kill Nigeria.

The team of auditors from the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) said that Nigeria performed excellently well in the nine-day audit conducted on the nation’s aviation security system. This is contained in a statement issued on Wednesday by Mr Fan Ndubuoke, General Manager, Public Affairs, Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) in Lagos.

The seeming frosty relationship between the Abia State chapter of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, and its People Democratic Party, PDP, over the outcome of the 2015 state governorship election has been further aggravated with the postponed inauguration of the State House of Assembly earlier scheduled for Monday, June 8.

By Zik Zulu Okafor It was on April 27, 2015. The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) sent a simple, concise but corrosive letter to sea ports operators. This letter carried a directive from the immediate past President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. This directive carried two confounding instructions. The first is […]

The administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has been called upon to pursue with vigour the Green Shield Programme, GSP, that will fight desertification which has been ravaging the Northern part of the country.

The First Lady of Bauchi State, Hajiya Hadiza Abubakar, has called on women not to pay lip service to the change agenda of All Progressives Congress, APC, but to ensure that the change emanates from within to ensure meaningful development in the state.