By Clifford Ndujihe, Deputy Political Editor ARGUABLY, late General Murtala Ramat Mohammed, Nigeria’s fourth head of state, is one of the country’s most popular rulers. He came to power on a promising note, showed readiness to deliver and was taken out of power when the ovation was loudest. The 198 days he spent in office […]

CALABAR—FOUR reverend sisters travelling from Ogoja, in Cross River State, to Uyo, Akwa Ibom, for a church programme yesterday, lost their lives when their car had a head-on collision with a truck along the Ogoja-Ikom highway.

Abuja — The Japanese government, yesterday, gave a grant of $11.1 million to the Federal Government to prevent voltage drop, reduce power loss and stabilize power supply in the country.

Following a nationwide protest which commenced on February 1, by the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress against the increase in electricity tariffs, demanding an immediate reversal of electricity tariff hike, the Minister for Works Power and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, last Monday, chaired the second monthly meeting of operators in the power sector in Lagos with the Electricity Distribution Companies, EDCs, promising more aggressive commitment to metering.

The recent celebration of the second World Congress of Oodua Progressives Union, tagged Ife 2016 in Ile-Ife, the cradle of Yoruba which drew more than 200 delegates from countries across the globe may have come and gone but the fond memories will continue to linger on in the minds of the participants especially those in diaspora. The congress had in attendance traditional rulers in Yoruba land including the Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi who sent a representative, while the Yoruba cultural icon, Chief Gani Adams, the President of Oodua Progressives Congress OPC, added glamour to the occasion.

INDEPENDENT petroleum marketers, during a protest, yesterday, in Warri, Delta State, warned the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, to stop sealing their filling stations and arresting of their members or face violent resistance.

Crisis is brewing between parents of pupils in Private secondary schools, owners of the schools in Ondo state and the state government over the extension of the implementation of the Residency card otherwise known as “Kaadi Igbeayo” to private schools across the state. They are kicking against state government somersaulting policy which directs parents and owners of private schools to key into the programme meant for only public schools.

In life, death is a necessary end, it will come when it will come, and so for Mallam Yaya Abubakar, a former director general of Voice of Nigeria (VON), death came to him at 73. Late Mallam Yaya Abubakar, was a prominent broadcaster , from Bauchi in Bauchi state , North central Nigeria. An alumni of University of Lagos, his foray into Broadcasting saw him rising to the managerial positions at the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA Bauchi in the 1980s and NTA Network in the 1990s.

FIFA U-17 World Cup 2015 champions Golden Eaglets will play Niger Republic in the second round qualifiers for the 2017 U-17 Africa Cup of Nations while the Flying Eagles will face the winner of the first round clash between Congo DR and Burundi in May.

Family members of the late Col. Bukar Suka Dimka and Mr. Joseph Gomwalk who were implicated and executed for their alleged roles in the abortive coup of February 13, 1976 would want the period to pass off possibly without reference to them.