An 83 year-old retired soldier, Pa Sule Yusuf, who sleeps under the bridge for 17 years in Lagos has rejected the offer of relocation to his country home, Igboora, Oyo State. The Igboora Progress Union (IPU), the umbrella association of Igboora indigenes told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan on Tuesday.
NAN reports that the news of Yusuf’s 17 years sojourn under the bridge was widely reported in the media on January 6, which necessitated the intervention of his community.

TOTAL Exploration and Production Nigeria Limited, has said the oil price fall is responsible for the challenging economic environment in Nigeria, while identifying three critical factors for sustainability of the petroleum industry

Simon Achuba was on Tuesday, sworn in as the Deputy Governor of Kogi State, in Lokoja the state capital.

BY BOILUWAJI OBAHOPO LOKOJA – Practicing journalists in Kogi state Tuesday received the shock of their lives as armed security men attached to the government house in Lokoja prevented them from covering the inauguration of the Deputy Governor, Mr. Simeon Achuba. Journalists, mostly from the prints who were rushing from the State House of Assembly […]

The Federal Government says it has concluded plans to employ families of dead victims and other injured persons of the 2014 immigration recruitment stampede.The Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Danbazau, told newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja shortly after defending the budget of his ministry before the Senate Committee on Interior, that the ministry would soon issue employment letters to those affected.

Bitrus Yakubu has an uplifting story about how he was reunited with his pregnant wife weeks after they were separated fleeing from Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria. His wife, Maryam, then gave birth to twins Grace and Sidi seven months ago. They all now live together in a tent in one of more than a […]

Barack Obama unveils the last budget of his presidency Tuesday, a multitrillion-dollar plan that is dead-on-arrival in Congress but could shape the 2016 White House race. Legislatively, the future looks bleak for Obama’s 2017 fiscal year plan, which covers spending on everything from cybersecurity to cancer research. Republicans who control Congress have already vowed to […]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday she was “dismayed” over the head-on collision of two commuter trains that killed at least nine people and injured more than 100. “I am dismayed and saddened by the serious train accident this morning at Bad Aibling,” Merkel said in a statement. “My sympathy goes out especially to the […]

A man set himself on fire in the early hours of Tuesday outside Kensington Palace, the central London home of Prince William and his wife Kate, and later died of his injuries, British police said. Two fire extinguishers could be seen next to a police tent set up at the scene of the incident near […]

Police in central India arrested a goat and its owner for repeatedly damaging a senior bureaucrat’s garden, a local official said Tuesday. Police in Chhattisgarh state sprang into action on Monday, registering a case against the man and his animal for chewing up the district magistrate’s garden. They were later released on bail but face […]

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has advised Minister of Power, Mr. Babatunde Fashola to “ensure that regulatory authorities are not allowed to get away with 45 percent increase in electricity tarrifs by promoting compliance with the November 2013 ruling on the matter by two UN special rapporteurs.”

The unbridled quest for money and the attitude of “only money counts” in all Igbo affairs, came under severe attack Tuesday, when the Catholic Bishop of Nsukka, Most Rev. Professor Godfrey Igwebuike Onah, delivered the 33rd Public Lecture of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, FUTO, titled “Intellectualism and the Development of a People”.

OKOROETE—CONTRARY to the suggestion that the killing of two police officers (Inspector and Corporal) and invasion of Okoroete Police Station at Eastern Obolo Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, last week, was a reprisal by embattled Ikot Akpan Udo community villagers, investigation has showed that alleged incessant seizure of outboard engines by the Police triggered the vicious attack.

A mild drama took place within the premises of the Federal High Court in Abuja this morning, as the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, whose trial is billed to commence today, refused to remove his handcuffs.

Unknown gun men yesterday night invaded the house of the Deputy governor of Taraba state Eng. Haruna Manu and abducted his old mother in Mutum-Biu the head quarters of Gasol Local Government area of Taraba state.