FORMER Federal Commissioner for Information and South South leader, Chief Edwin Clark said yesterday that President Muhammadu Buhari’s appointment of Brig-Gen. Paul Boroh, Rtd as Coordinator for the Amnesty Programme has averted a major breakdown of law and order that would have engulfed the Niger Delta region of the country.

Back in the 70s,my close friends and I fantasized about speed as most young people are wont to do. We loved those sleek, ugly- beautiful cars that promised, not just driving pleasure, but also speed in the realm of Formula One.

Ex-international, Sylvanus Okpala holds no punches when it comes to football discourse. He was made the assistant Super Eagles coach under Stephen Keshi. But he was summarily disengaged by Nigeria Football Federation administration of Aminu Maigari after the national team won the 2013 Nations Cup in South Africa and it seems the hornets’ nest was […]

Rivers People’s Congress, RPC, an umbrella body of all ethnic, social and non governmental organisations in Rivers State has raised the alarm that there are clandestine efforts by Governor Nyesom Wike’s government to rubbish the legacies of former state governor Chibuike Amaechi and hang on him a picture of corruption in order to destroy his image.

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Major General Tukur Yusuf Buratai, has promised to meet the needs of the Nigerian Army College of Logistics (NACOL), charging officers to remain disciplined, loyal, dedicated and hardworking.

No fewer than 200 officers and men of the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, have been withdrawn from the Lagos State Transport Management Agency, LASTMA, for yet-to-be disclosed reasons. They have been directed to report at their command headquarters in Ikeja, over two weeks ago.

LAST Thursday, Nigerian media professionals and others within the pen fraternity gathered to celebrate and honour one of their own, a man widely regarded as a leading icon and doyen of Nigerian journalism and one who had significantly contributed and is still contributing to its evolution.

“My ambition is to be better than the best, to get to a level where I will be helping a lot of people, especially the young ones who are in need of assistance. To be in a position where I will be helping people to get empowered is what I’m aiming.”

Tension mounts at the University town of Nsukka, Enugu state, following last week’s gruesome killing of a female classroom teacher at about 200 meters to her residence while returning from the state capital where she attended the swearing- in ceremony of newly appointed commissioners in the state.

BETWEEN the summer and autumn of 1940 when Britain stood in grave danger of being overwhelmed by the all-conquering German air machine, the small Royal Air Force (RAF) of Britain braved the odds to defend the Island in World War II’s first major campaign fought entirely by air forces. Known as the Battle of Britain, it was also the largest and most sustained aerial bombing activity to that date