Residents of Abuja and other neighbouring cities rolled out drums  on Wednesday  to receive the World champions, the Golden Eaglets, at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja.  The all-conquering Eaglets arrived the Federal capital territory at about  3pm  aboard an Emirates Airline flight. Ministry of Sport and Youth officials, their Nigeria Football Federation counterparts and […]

Pandemonium broke out, yesterday, when soldiers and armed operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, took over no fewer than five quarrying sites located in Odeda Local Government Area of Ogun State, injuring some of the workers.

Lagos—A 53-year-old bureau de change operator, Shukurat Abebei, was yesterday remanded in Kirikiri Prison custody for allegedly stealing $20,000.

Speaker of Delta State House of Assembly, Mr. Ovwigho Igbuya, has called on members to re-double their efforts in the area of lawmaking for peace and good governance of the state.

TENSION is mounting in Anambra State following an attempt by agents of the state government to force a chairmanship candidate in the state council election of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Mr. Abuchi Nwozo, to step down for a favoured government candidate, or be prepared to lose his job.

THE Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, in the South East geo-political zone has called on the governors in the area to mobilize funds and repair the dilapidated federal roads in the zone, rather than waiting indefinitely for the federal government.

MY people have a proverb which says: a person who was not present when a corpse was buried runs the risk of exhuming it from the foot end rather than the head.

The Governorship candidate of the Labour Party for the November 21 governorship election, Dr. Philip Salawu, has alleged that one of the two leading parties for the election has stock piled arms and ammunition it intends to use to manipulate the election.

President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, assigned portfolios to the 36 new ministers with former Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, SAN, and former Governor of Rivers State Rotimi Amaechi emerging as the administration’s point men in the drive to improve the country’s infrastructure and transportation system.

AS the governorship election campaign in Bayelsa State gathers momentum ahead of December 5, 2015 polls in the state, Coordinator, Bayelsa Youth Leaders Forum, BYLF, Hon Ben Bara Ogidi, has expressed optimism that with Governor Seriake Dickson’s re-election the state will be safe.