CALABAR—Three persons have been reported killed over a land dispute between Alessi, a community in Ikom Local Government Area, and Isabang in Obubra Local Government Area, both of Cross River State.

Lagos—Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State has attributed the state’s immunity to the current economic recession to the virile revenue base and fiscal discipline within the state.

By Chioma Obinna Lagos—MEDICAL Doctors at the Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital, LAUTECH, Ogbomoso, weekend, raised alarm over what they described as “isolated percentage salary debacle” in Oyo State’s health sector, saying “it would worsen health indices in the state.” The doctors, under the auspices of the Association of Resident Doctors, LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso […]

Ado-Ekiti—Ekiti State Government has paid compensation to people whose buildings and structures were demolished to pave way for the construction of an overhead bridge in the state capital, Ado-Ekiti.

WARRI—Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate, NDGJM, a militant group in Delta State, yesterday, claimed that its strike force blew up the Afiesere-Ekiugbo delivery line, operated by the Nigeria Petroleum Development Company, NPDC/Shoreline Petroleum at Ughelli, Delta State, on Sunday.

ABUJA— The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, yesterday, warned lawyers to stop dragging judges before President Muhammadu Buhari.

ABUJA—The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, yesterday said the judiciary was determined to purge itself by weeding out corrupt and indolent judges.

FOR those who have been nursing hope that our country would get out of recession when government rolls out plans to combat the scourge,this may just be the time to get their sackcloth if the retreat that took place in Abuja last week is all that was in the offing.

Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI, has disclosed that it intends to push for the enactment of a specific law that would compel companies operating in the extractive industries to abide by strict Beneficial Ownership disclosure.

Two! I had carefully read the farcical online report that Governor Obiano had, in two years, blown the fabulous N75 billion “abandoned” in Anambra’s vaults by his predecessor. It was a disgraceful washout; it contained not a single word, let alone a single sentence, to support the wild claim of its title. It merely listed what the author termed 29 Anambra State Government accounts in various banks, and posted the sum of N37.3 billion as the total funds in them on the morning of Chief Obiano’s inauguration.

Super Falcons captain Evelyn Nwanbuoku and defender Onome Ebi believe that Nigeria have everything going for them to win the Africa Women Cup of Nations starting November 9 in Cameroon.

The Enugu State Capital Territory Development Authority, ECTDA, on Monday, revealed that over 1,000 buildings within Enugu metropolis built on waterways, drainage channels and on top of public utilities will be demolished to avert the impending flood doom plaguing the state.

KALABA-RESIDENTS of oil-bearing communities, among them Otuabagi, Kalaba and Peremabiri in Bayelsa State, have complained of high mortality rate, loss of means of livelihood and bizarre earth tremors allegedly caused by despoliation of their environment by oil companies.

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday, blamed past leaders for the country’s woes saying, they lacked ‘foresight, uprightness and managerial skills.”
Buhari, who was represented by Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal spoke in Abeokuta, Ogun state capital, at the 20th memorial service of the first female industrialist in Nigeria and third Iyalode of Egbaland, late (Mrs) Esther Bisoye Tejuoso.

MEMBERS of the House of Representatives, under the aegis of Transparency Group, yesterday insisted that the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, Deputy Speaker, Yusuf Lasun, Minority Whip, Ado Doguwa and Minority Leader, Leo Ogor must step down to face an investigative panel.