Police nab Pastor for kidnapping
A suspected kidnap kingpin believed to be responsible for series of abductions, including that of the Oniba of Iba kingdom, Oba Yishau Oseni, last month in Igando area of Lagos has been arrested by the Police in Lagos.
Recession: Moody’s warns of dire economic consequences for Nigeria
Global rating agency, Moody’s, yesterday, warned of a further contraction of the Nigeria, while it disclosed that the declining value of the naira would engender a marginal increase in Nigeria’s external debt to 5.2 per cent of Gross Domestic Product, GDP, by end of 2016 from 3.3 per cent in 2015.
Edo: NSCDC to deploy 10,000 personnel for guber polls
The Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Abdullahi Gana Muhammadu, has directed the immediate deployment of 10,000 Personnel for the forthcoming Edo Gubernatorial Poll of the September 9, 2016.
Re-introduce History in schools or stop celebrating Army Day, CAN tells Buhari
THE South South chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has called on President Muhammedu Buhari, to take a critical look at the curriculum of secondary education with a view to reintroducing history into the nation’s education system.
Biafra factions, TRIBOB, RENIPOB unite
THE Re-branded Indigenous People of Biafra, TRIPOB, and Renegade Indigenous People of Biafra, RENIPOB, a breakaway faction from the Nnamdi Kanu-led Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOP, have merged
Ize-Iyamu wants foreign missions, agencies to monitor Edo election to avert rigging
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) govern-orship candidate in the September 10 election, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu has asked foreign missions and agencies in Nigeria to send observers and monitors to ensure that plans by any party to rig the elections are nipped in the bud.
