THE police in Delta State have arrested two persons in connection with the bombing of National Secretariat of the Isoko Development Union, IDU at Oleh, headquarters of Isoko South Local Government Area of the state.

Ex-militants in the third phase of the Federal Government Amnesty Programme have asked President Muhammadu Buhari to launch an immediate investigation into the amnesty programme, warning that the incompetence of the leadership of the scheme could lead to widespread militancy in the Niger Delta region.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s new campaign chief Stephen Bannon was registered to vote at an abandoned Florida home, according to media reports, potentially violating the state’s election law. The Miami Herald reported on Friday that from 2014 until last week, Bannon was registered to vote at “an abandoned, trash-filled home in Coconut Grove.” The […]

The people of Gabon began casting their ballots Saturday in a vote to decide whether President Ali Bongo will remain in office or be unseated by a career diplomat and close associate of his late father, who ran the country for 41 years.

IRKED by the recur-ring killing and maiming of villagers in Enugu State by Fulani herdsmen and the seeming hopelessness of the security architecture in the state, the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, yesterday, described the governors of the South-eastern states as weak and incapable of performing the primary function of governance.

Avengers (NDA) rebel group announced this week it had called a ceasefire and was entering talks with the government, many hoped peace would be restored to the country’s oil belt.

Media reports at the beginning of the week indicated that President Muhammadu Buhari was dissatisfied with the pace of economic development under his administration and wanted to give it an impetus through an Emergency Stabilisation Act. As reported, the Bill for that Act had been prepared and waiting to be transmitted to the National Assembly for consideration.

In a rare display of transparency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, threw open its detention facilities to journalists to ascertain if there is any torture or inhuman facility. Led by its Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, EFCC spared no effort in taking the media men round the massive ‘Idiagbon House’, which houses most of the detention cells.

So these two things that would have done with e-registration would have brought membership to the party, it would have guaranteed financial independence to the party. The third thing, I tried to do for the party was to bring back internal democracy. When we went to Jos we had about seven presidential aspirants and by the end of the primaries when they saw transparency, they conceded victory to General Obasanjo and all of them went with him round the country to campaign because they accepted defeat seeing that everything was transparent.

Today, Osun State marks its 25th year of existence. The state was created alongside 11 other states, (Abia, Adamawa, Anambra, Delta, Edo, Enugu, Jigawa, Kebbi, Kogi, Taraba and Yobe), on August 27, 1991 by former Head of State, Ibrahim Babangida.

A 28-year-old man, Ikechukwu Daniel, suspected to be a member of a notorious kidnapping gang terrorizing the South Western part of the country, has been arrested by operatives of the Inspector- General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, IRT, for allegedly masterminding the April 27, 2016, abduction of Senator Iyabo Anisulowo in Ogun State.

“That is why I asked that question; how Hon. Dogara, regarded an angel, yesterday, had suddenly become a demon today. It is the act of democratization and it means that APC is doing well; we are meticulous and the glory goes to God. They blew it open that the budget Mr. President signed is not the one under criticism; therefore, we believe in the president, we believe in our programme in APC and we believe that all is well.

Amidst lingering dispute between Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and eight banks banned from participating in the inter-bank foreign exchange market, the local currency, Naira, has suffered further bashing, depreciating to N415/ USD1 yesterday in the parallel market, bringing total weekly loss to N20 per dollar.

Nkechi Chukwuma’s musical influence manifested into sterling performances and emerging talents that highlighted the programme

Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, also turned up in Warri, Friday evening, to meet with Clark and Niger Delta leaders from Cross River, Rivers, Edo and Akwa Ibom states from the six coastal states of the South-South, who were able to make it to Delta State.