THE All Progressive Congress’s, APC, government of President Mohammadu Buhari was swept into power after last year’s presidential election on the mantra of Change. It brought to an end the People Democratic Party, PDP, controlled government that had been in power for sixteen years (1999 to 2015).

A Katsina State High Court sitting in Funtua on Thursday sentenced the son of a former Distric Head of Bakori, Mu’ammar Tukur, to death by hanging for culpable homicide. Tukur, 32, whose late father represented Bakori/Danja Federal Constituency at the Federal House of Representatives, was convicted for using knife to stab Shafir Muktar to death, […]

DAY after day, the National Assembly appears to be proving many anti-corruption crusaders right that the Bukola Saraki-led National Assembly is not, and can’t be on the same page with President Muhammadu Buhari in the ongoing war against corruption.

An alleged telephone conversation between the Rivers state Governor, Nyesom Wike and the Ekiti state Governor, Ayodele Fayose quoting Wike as saying “kill everybody you can kill” as well as saying the “Nigerian army does not exist again” has got the social media buzzing.

YORUBA socio-political Organisation, Afenifere has called on the Federal Government to disclose employers of the 50,000 ghost workers recently retrenched from public service.

US President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday responded to a slew of US election related sanctions against Russia with a call for the country to “move on” and a conciliatory pledge to meet US spy chiefs he has harshly criticized.

The court tasked with validating the impeachment of South Korean President Park Geun-Hye said Friday that she would not be required to appear for questioning.

THE Niger Delta Security Watch Organization of Nigerian, NDSWON, Ijaw Peoples Development Initiative, IPDI, and Foundation for Human Rights and Anti-Corruption Crusade, FHRACC, yesterday, said the claim by the Presidency that the Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, an umbrella group of traditional rulers, leaders and stakeholders of the coastal states of Niger Delta, had no power over of militants in the region was fallacious.

A Bayelsa-based clergyman, Reverend Ken Esekhaigbe, has dismissed the claims in some quarters that the current economic hardship in Nigeria is caused by God to punish the people for their ungodly and sinful ways, saying the economic hardship was rather caused by wrong decisions, mismanagement during past administrations.

As part of the newly launched CLEANER LAGOS INITIATIVE (CLI) the State through the Commissioner of Information, Mr. Steve Ayorinde has announced a robust plan to employ over 2% of its entire population over the next few years with the implementation of new environmental policies and procedures. According to him, the CLI will employ 25,000 […]

OVER 5,000 residents of Sapele, Delta State, led by the priest of Saint Patricks Church, Sapele, Reverend Father Christopher Ekibo, on Wednesday protested incessant power outages and outrageous billings by the Benin Electricity Distribution Company, BEDC.

Ibadan – Considering the magnitude of both human and material losses in the penultimate week when two rival groups, ‘One Million boys’ and ‘Indomie Abe Igi Boys ’ sacked some parts of Ibadan metropolis like Beere, Born Photo, Ilupeju, Agbokojo,Mapo, Idi-Aro and Akala Way, the leadership of the Methodist Church of Nigeria, led by Sunday Ola Makinde and the President, Sword of the Spirit Ministries, Bishop Francis Wale Oke have called on the Olubadan of Ibadan, His Imperial majesty, Oba Saliu Adetunji to work hand in hand with the police, Governor Abiola Ajimobi and other security agencies to expose all those who ruptured the peace of the ancient city and their sponsors.

The world’s highest bridge has opened to traffic in China, connecting two provinces in the mountainous southwest and reducing travel times by as much as three-quarters, local authorities said Friday

Boko Haram’s elusive leader, Abubakar Shekau, appeared in a new video, yesterday, to dispute a claim that the jihadist group had been routed from its Sambisa forest stronghold.

The heads of two key federal agencies, Director-General of Department of State Service, DSS, Mr Lawal Daura and Director-General of Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, Col Hameed Ali (retd), who are also close allies of President Muhammadu Buhari have been sparring over allegations and counter allegations of unprofessionalism and illegality, according to an online medium, Premium Times.