FAILURE of the Federal Government and Nigeria Ports Authority to dredge the Calabar port channel is adversely affecting economic activities the port was meant to sustain. Previous efforts to dredge the port ended without improvements in the capacity of the port to take bigger vessels.

FOR a government that is yet to deliver any spectacular benchmark against its self-imposed messianic mission and the wellspring of support that heralded its rise to power, it is understandable that Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari’s first 100 days in office has been mired in controversy.

ONITSHA—Officials of Anambra State Urban Development Board, ASUDEB, yesterday, escaped death by whiskers as angry traders from the Electronics International Market threatened them for allegedly locking up three access gates leading into the market.

The PDP yesterday announced the postponement of Kogi State governorship primary election by four days.

OWERRI—Imo State Police Command has denied that its officers and men stormed the Owerri residential home of the leader of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike.

By Emma Ujah,    Abuja Bureau Chief ABUJA—Women still face various barriers to economic advancement in most parts of the globe, the World Bank has said. In its Women, Business and the Law 2016 report released yesterday, the institution said that the womenfolk were mainly shut out of opportunities to certain jobs, credit and unprotected […]

UGHELLI—THE Centre for Peace and Environmental Justice, CPEJ, has urged the Federal Government to put adequate measures in place to avert an impending flooding in some parts of the country.

Super Eagles stand-in captain Ahmed Musa has said Nigeria should expect a much improved performance from the team in their next 2017 AFCON qualifier against Egypt in March.

BENIN—IN what seems to be a mini-cabinet shake-up in Edo State, Governor Adams Oshiomhole, yesterday, sacked four commissioners in the state, saying that the decision was part of efforts to strengthen the ministries they headed.

The family of late Professor Adebowale Ibidapo Adefuye, former Nigerian ambassador to the United States of America, who died on Thursday, August 27, has announced the burial arrangements.