There was anger in Kano yesterday, as residents got to know about the infection of a 13-year-old girl with HIV after being raped by the Village Head of Goron Maje, Dambatta Local Government Area of the state.

Chief Coach of the national U-23 team, Dream Team VI, Samson Siasia says he is keen on taking in-form Watford of England striker, Odion Ighalo as one of the three over-aged players for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.

Tension heightened in Edo North senatorial district of Edo State, yesterday, as one person was feared dead while several others were injured in a communal clash between the Uneme-Erhurhun in Akoko-Edo Local Government Area and Okpella Ogute in Etsako East Local Government Area of the state.

Akure—ONDO State governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko yesterday said that the Mega Primary Schools Initiative introduced by his administration in the State was a promise fulfilled.

THE lawmaker representing Ohaukwu North constituency at the Ebonyi State House of Assembly, Mr. Frank Nwaka Onwe, has alleged that some Agila people in Ado Local Government Area of Benue State believed to be ex-servicemen were responsible for the gruesome murder of members of Ukwagba community in Ohaukwu Local Government Area of the state.

By Emeka Aginam The European Union and the Brazilian government yesterday signed agreement to develop 5G, the next generation of communication networks. The European Commissioner for the Digital Economy and Society Günther H. Oettinger and Brazilian Minister of Communications André Figueiredo signed the joint declaration at the ongoing 2016 Mobile World Congress (MWC) holding in […]

Investors looking to invest in Nigeria should look beyond the distractions from the current foreign exchange situation in the country in order to make better and profitable long term decisions, says the chairman of Stanbic IBTC Holdings Plc, Mr. Atedo Peterside

The new national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, got further entrenched in his position yesterday after critical elders of the party in the Board of Trustees, BoT, recanted on their opposition to his appointment.

ABIA State chapter of Inter-Party Advisory Council, IPAC, yesterday appealed to candidates and political parties involved in next month’s Abia North Senatorial and other State Assembly re-run elections to abide by the rules of the game and put the interest of the state first during and after the contest.

Trial of the former National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Haliru Bello, continued yesterday, with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, exposing how the defendant allegedly diverted public funds into a company he bequeathed to his son, Abba.

LAST week’s disbandment of Edo State Transport Management Agency, EDSTMA, by Governor Adams Oshiomhole has been described by the Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as a shock, saying that it was a policy somersault by the government.

THERE is no gain saying that that the birth of the Niger Delta Ministry was a quintessential necessity aimed at redressing deficits of infrastructure and resolving vexing issues of economic justice in Nigeria’s oil producing region. As late President Musa Yar’Adua probably intended at inception in September 2008: the ministry will coordinate efforts to tackle the challenges of development, environmental protection and youth empowerment in the Niger Delta, it was equally expected that the establishment would serve as the primary vehicle for delivery of the administration’s agenda for the rapid development of the restive region.

THE Federal Government has said that the novel price modulation mechanism currently in place will ensure that it records zero expenses on fuel subsidy in 2016.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, shocked Imo people last Friday, when it literally succumbed to pressure mounted by a political party in the state to call off the planned rerun election for the Imo North Senatorial District.

Nina Simone, the “high priestess of soul” sang “To Be Young, Gifted and Black” in the ’60s, an era synonymous with the Civil Rights movement in America, decolonisation and the first military coups back home.