BY JIMITOTA ONOYUME PORT HARCOURT – Heavy traffic gridlock on Aba road in Port Harcourt as members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP embark on what it dubbed Peace procession. Chairman of the party in the state, Mr Felix Obuah had in a press statement signed by his media aide, Mr Jerry Needam on Thursday […]

BY JOHN MKOM, JALINGO. The gate of Government House Jalingo has been temporally closed by FC Taraba players, who came out very early this morning Friday in protest, demanding payment of 12 months salaries from the state government. The players were seen carrying placards “We are dying, give us our 12 months salaries” Government House […]

By Kingsley Fanwo Ahead of tomorrow’s supplementary poll in some polling units in Kogi State, unknown arsonists have torched the Dekina Local Government Office of the Independent National Electoral Commission. Security operatives are looking for clues to why the office was razed and the people responsible for the arson. While many people believe it was […]

IT could best be described as a royal rumble. The two royal gladiators are from the same Osupa ruling house in the Akure Chieftaincy stool. Observers of happenings in Akure, the Ondo state capital as regards the stool of the paramount traditional ruler of the ancient town ( Deji of Akureland) would agree that it’s an understatement to say that the junt through the metropolis recently by the deposed and banished Oba, Prince Adepoju Adesina barely five years after his banishment by the state government caused anxiety and sent cold jitters down the spines of indigenes and non- indigenes of the ancient town.

According to Abolanle Ambode who made the call at the GEW Enterprise Women’s Day series, a capacity building seminar and initiative of the Joan Agha Foundation (JAF), “all over the world women are home builders women are driving the world and changing economies of most countries.

An Ado-Ekiti High Court, yesterday, sentenced one David Olugboyega to death by hanging for armed robbery involving N14,570.
Justice John Adeyeye passed the judgment following the confessional statement of the convict and the conclusion of trial by the prosecution.

Acting Executive Secretary of Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), Dr Orji Ogbonnaya Orji, has disclosed that 42 oil and gas companies operating in the country paid a total of $293 billion to the Federal Government between 2006 and 2012.

At the inception of this administration,stocks soared as foreign investors looked to President Muhammadu Buhari to reverse decades of economic mismanagement and policy inertia. At that time, institutional investors brought in billions of dollars that shored up the nation’s foreign reserves and gave the stock market a new lease of life.

Imo State Government has expressed reservations at the way the former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Chief Emeka Ihedioha, rushed to the media to attack Governor Rochas Okorocha over what he claimed to have read about the governor earmarking N600 million for decorations.

DELTA State House of Assembly has directed those in possession of government funds paid as mobilization fee for contract awarded, to move to sit and execute the jobs awarded to them or return the money to government coffers.