Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has said that Nigeria requires public office holders, political leaders with managerial acumen and competence in order to steer the affairs of the state aright, especially in the present economic recession of the country.

Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed speaks on ‘Change begins with me campaing’ and call for President Muhammadu Buhari’s resignation by the oppostion party.

Governor Darius Ishaku of Taraba State has debunked online reports accusing him of urging his kinsmen to attack and burn down Tiv villages in Taraba, if they resisted his orders to change the name of Dan-Anacha Market to Kararafa.

EDO State Elections Petition Tribunal sitting in Benin, yesterday, granted the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the Young Democratic Party, YDP, leave to serve their petitions by substituted means on the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the governor-elect, Mr Godwin Obaseki.

HOST Communities of Nigeria, Oil and Gas, HOSTCOM, Isoko nation chapter, has commended President Muhammadu Buhari, for the appointment of the National Chairman of the body, Dr. Mike Emuh, as member of the board of trustees of the Ogoni clean-up project.

By Peter Okutu ABAKALIKI—THE National Coordinator for Buhari/Osibanjo Initiative for Demonstrative Change in Nigeria, Comrade Chinedu Ogah yesterday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to focus on revamping the power sector as a panacea needed to boost the country’s economy. The National Coordinator, who made the call while addressing newsmen in Abakaliki on the state of […]

Ogun State Police Command, yesterday, paraded a female banker, Oluchi Tochukwu, and two suspected hired assassins over a botched plot to kill her husband, identified as Onyebuchi Tochukwu.

The Commissioner for Agriculture in Anambra, Mr Afam Mbanefo, said on Monday that the state has reached its target of achieving self-sufficiency in rice production.

Deputy National Chairman (South) of All Progressives Congress, APC, Engr. Segun Oni, has lashed out at critics of the anti-corruption efforts of President Muhammadu Buhari’s government, saying nothing much would be achieved by strict adherence to the rule of law.

Women numbering over 100 yesterday stormed the Federal High Court in Lagos, chanting solidarity songs on the freezing order placed on the bank accounts of ex-First Lady, Mrs Patience Jonathan.

THE Supreme Court, on September 26, 2016, resumed hearing in the lingering legal tussle on the pre-election appeal brought by the former governorship aspirant of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2011 election in Enugu State, Dr Alexander Obiechina, against the former governor, Sullivan Chime.

Three years after he was accused of defiling an eight-year old girl (names withheld), one Tajudeen Soneye, was yesterday sentenced to 10 years imprisonment with hard labour by a Lagos High court.

THE piece under the above headline by a former commissioner representing Abia State at the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Mr. Okey Nwaubani made claims that cannot be said to be true.

Former Zambia coach, Herve Renard has told the Chipolopolos to forget the 2018 World Cup group B contest as they are no match for Nigeria, Algeria and Cameroon. Renard who is now Morocco’s coach stated that he does not see Zambia making any impact in the group. They have already lost a match at home […]

THE National Chairman of Alliance for Democracy, AD, Chief Joseph Avazi, yesterday, insisted that Chief Olusola Oke remained the party’s candidate for the election. Chief Avazi, who spoke with newsmen shortly after the party’s National Working Committee, NWC, meeting in Abuja, said he was not aware of any crisis in the party, saying the AD under his watch is cohesive, formidable and optimistic in winning the election.