By Ayo Onikoyi There are not many in the field of ethnobotany and plant taxonomy who have continued to demonstrate unwavering excellence, global relevance, and scholarly impact like Dr. Sharaibi Olubunmi Josephine A  Lecturer II in the Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Lagos State University (LASU), Dr. Sharaibi has emerged as the recipient of […]

IN his justification of the recent increase in the pomp price of fuel, the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, postulated that the issue was not about oil subsidy but that Nigeria was skint.

UGHELLI—A sales girl, simply identified as “Yellow,” has been bludgeoned to death after she was raped. It was gathered that her assailants attacked her inside the building material store where she worked at Afiesere community, Ughelli, Delta State.

The Edo State government and the PDP were yesterday locked in a war of words over alleged plans to compromise the ongoing voter registration exercise.

As part of the restructuring going on in the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), players of the Super Eagles and other national teams will no longer be paid dollar bonus.

National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has called on the Police to release the result of the autopsy conducted on a final year student of the University of Port Harcourt, Mr Peter Ofurum, who was shot dead during a protest by students of the school on April 11.

NINE of the 11 governorship APC aspirants who lost out to Godwin Obaseki in last Saturday’s primary yesterday declared that the emergence of Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu as the PDP candidate has set the victory tone for the APC candidate.

The state chairman of the PDP, Chief Dan Orbih has rejected insinuations by the immediate past national chairman of the party, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff to the effect that the PDP primaries which produced Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu was illegally convened.

Joint Niger Delta Liberation Force, NDLF, yesterday, alleged that some top Army officers planning to overthrow President Muhammadu Buhari goverment had approached Niger- Delta militants to continue bombing oil installations to give pretext and justification for a coup against him.

The Oyo State Government has dragged the state chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress to the National Industrial Court in Ibadan over the on-going strike which was declared on June 13.