AS the House of Representatives continues to unravel the reason behind the diversion of $1.1 billion Malabu oil deal, son of the late head of state, Mohammed Abacha, a shareholder in the company, appeared yesterday to make his submissions.

Prince of Benin Kingdom and Edaiken N’ Uselu, Prince Eheneden Erediauwa last Sunday, commenced the performance of the 14-day Iyan-Ehien chieftaincy rites ahead of his coronation on Thursday, October 20.

THE Nigerian Navy has impounded a barge containing about 120,000 litres of alleged illegal crude oil at Elem Kalabari in Akuku Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State.

Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode will today lead top dignitaries to declare open Kayokayo Festival, the historical highly revered religious gathering of the Epe people.

By Nwabueze Okonkwo ONITSHA—Leader  of the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB,  Chief Ralph Uwazuruike has accused those he identified as Igbo elites of helping to sabotage  Biafran efforts during the civil war which according to him, resulted in the defeating of Biafra and the current treatment of Ndigbo as slaves in […]

TWO senators from Edo State, Francis Alimikhena, APC, Edo North and Matthew Urhoghide, PDP, Edo South, have clashed over the outcome of September 28 Edo State governorship election, with one saying the election was free and fair and the other countering that the election was skewed in such a way to achieve a pre determined result for the All Progressives Congress, APC.

A civil society organisation under ‘Coalition of Civil Society Groups’ has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for his “dogged approach in tackling” the hydra-headed Boko Haram terrorists and “solving” the two major challenges of insecurity and corruption that continues to confront the nation.

The family of Goodie Ibru last night, described the ‘wanted person’ tag placed on him over alleged fraud, money laundering and diversion of capital market funds as scandalous, misleading and unfortunate.

The National President of Magistrates Association of Nigeria, Mr. Sa’idu Safiyanu, has said the group was in support of President Muhammad Buhari’s war against corruption.

IN a bid to demonstrate the seriousness of his administration to enforce the anti-grazing law, Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, yesterday on Afao-Ekiti road, Irepodun-Ifelodun local government area, led security men and some youths to arrest one of the cows that was grazing along the road.

The Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha has said that the chieftains of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the State, were using the refuse along Douglas Road to draw sentiments for themselves as well score political points.

CHIEF Medical Director of University of Benin Teaching Hospital, UBTH, Prof. Michael Ibadin, has appealed to striking members of the Association of Resident Doctors, ARD, UBTH branch, to shelve their two months old strike and save the lives of patients, who are now at the receiving end as a result of the strike

US singer and songwriter, Bob Dylan, yesterday emerged winner of the prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature.

Documents obtained from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, yesterday, showed that the corporation has increased the number of companies awarded the contract to lift Nigeria’s crude oil this year, to 27, from the 21 originally awarded the contract last year.

HE governorship candidate of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in the just concluded governorship election in Edo State, Osaro Onaiwu, has called for the dissolution of the Prof. Mahmood Yakubu-led Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and the cancellation of the election in the state.