AHEAD of the July 2016 governorship election in Edo State, three of the five governorship aspirants of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have pledged to support who ever among them wins the party’s governorship primaries to ensure that the party takes over the reins of government in the state.

Oil and gas companies operating in Nigeria were fined N1.81 billion in nine months, between January and September 2015, for flouting Federal Government’s directives on gas flaring, a data from the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN said.

It was a theatre of confusion, yesterday in Aba as eight members of the the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, were allegedly shot dead by the military during their peaceful protest over the continued detention of their leader, Nnamdi Kanu, according to the spokesman of IPOB, Emma Powerful .

Civil Liberties Organization, CLO, yesterday supported the decision by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to stop the sale of foreign exchange, forex, to Bureaux de Change, BDCs, as part of measures to reduce the pressure on the nation’s foreign reserves.

VICTOR ENOMA has served in all three governors of Edo State in the Fourth Republic including the incumbent. In this interview he reviews the recent face off between Governor Adams Oshiomhole and the Igbinedion family. Excerpts: By Gabriel Enogholase Given your close ties to the Igbinedion family and having served in the Adams Oshiomhole cabinet […]

Seven-time Nigerian champions Enyimba were at the mercy of armed robbers on Monday afternoon as they travelled to Kaduna for the 2016 NPFL Super Four.

MILITANTS who blew up crude oil and gas pipelines in Delta State for three days last week, have beat a retreat following an intensive manhunt for them by operatives of the Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta and appeals by traditional rulers and concerned leaders of Ijaw ethnic nationality.

Super Eagles and Watford striker Odion Ighalo has revealed that he’s aiming to topple the Gabon and Borussia Dortmund striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang as CAF African Footballer of the Year. The Super Eagle was speaking to a Nigerian football website, Football Live.ng saying he’d like to break the 19-year absence of Nigerians in the running for the African award.

LAGOS — The Naira, yesterday, appreciated to N296 per dollar in the parallel market due to expectation that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will sell autonomous dollar to bureaux de change this week.

There was anxiety in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, yesterday, as a patient on admission at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido Ekiti was tested positive to Lassa fever.

Angry reactions have started trailing the sacking of over 3,000 workers in the 19 Imo State government parastatals, agencies and departments.

The Nigerian Press Organization (NPO), comprising the Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN), the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) and the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), has resolved to appeal the December 4, 2015 decision of the Court of Appeal which upturned a Federal High Court Lagos judgment that declared the Press Council Law as unconstitutional, null and void.

Former Super Eagles manager, Christian Chukwu has described as a good start, the team’s 4-1 defeat of the Mena of Niger at the ongoing African Nations Championship (CHAN) in Kigali, Rwanda.

The Nigerian Army yesterday informed that plans had been concluded to rebuild parts of the North East that were destroyed during the fight to outwit insurgents from the war torn region, as part of the next phase of its counter-insurgency operation.

PORT HARCOURT—Elele Town in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State was unsettled, yesterday, following the recovery of the corpse of a nine-year-old girl, Miss Miracle, who was reported missing.