Prices of all categories of bread have been reviewed upward by about 30 per cent in Omu-Aran, Kwara.

The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor of Kogi State, Mr. Kingsley Fanwo has appealed to the people of Mopamuro Local Government Area of the state to remain steadfast and endure the surgery the State is undergoing after years of “unforgivable dislocation through maladministration”, saying the screening exercise was instituted to “save the State from over-bleeding.”

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA – Former Minister of Aviation, Senator Stella Oduah, on Thursday, dismissed as false and baseless, allegation that N2.5billion was traced to the bank account of her housemaid. Oduah who is currently representing Anambra North Senatorial District, via a statement by the Head of Communication in her office, Francisca Onyeisi, maintained that […]

*Denies Rivers’ attack, alerts on phony Facebook account WARRI- Suspected militants have blown up three Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, manifolds in Digbolo, near Dibi in Warri North Local Government of Delta State. The incident it was gathered occurred at about 11.00 pm on Wednesday. Claiming responsibility for the attack, the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, said: […]

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has described Zainab Bukola Ajayi, who died on Wednesday, as an iconic thespian and a colossus of her time who has left an indelible footprint in the country’s creative landscape. In a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday, the Minister said despite her advanced age, it […]

“An unjust law is no law at all” St. Augustine 2011 was the year of reckoning for Arab dictators and the rise of people power in the Arab world. The ordinary people stood up to their leaders and said “enough was enough”. The revolution swept out decades old dictators in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen and […]

A group, the National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE), has urged the Federal Government to restructure the various aviation agencies for efficient service delivery.

A video of the dying moments of a black man shot by Minnesota police after being pulled over while driving went viral Thursday, a day after a video emerged of a similar incident in Louisiana.

Harare – Zimbabweans stayed at home on Wednesday while foreign banks and most businesses in the capital shut down operations, in one of the biggest – and peaceful – stay-away actions in nearly a decade. The national stay-away day, fronted by social-media movement #ThisFlag, followed violent clashes between taxi drivers and police on Monday that […]

A middle-aged robbery suspect was on Wednesday set ablaze by angry mob at Isoko quarters in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta.

Fresh, resonating calls are being made for the scrapping of national tertiary admissions clearing house, JAMB, over controversies generated since Education Minister, Mallam Adamu Adamu announced the scrapping of post-UTME tests by universities. Earlier in the week, after a meeting with administrators of universities and other tertiary institutions, the Joint Admissions & Matriculations Board announced yet another system by which students seeking admission into tertiary institutions can be admitted.

Whether a constitutionally governed nation is to exist in perpetuity, sacred and inviolable even by the existential realities of irredeemable socio-cultural fault lines, is a matter for the conjecture of the jurisprudence of law and of morality. The question being: should a democratic society be presumed immune –legally-speaking or morally so- even from the rumbling dissent of self-determined minorities bent on opting out of the union?

A Nigerian migrant was beaten to death in a racist attack by a right-wing football fan in a central Italian town, officials said Wednesday.

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has cried out over alleged constant harassment and arrest of innocent people in the guise of being IPOB members.