Edo: New Oba, new governor TODAY, Thursday October 20, the ancient kingdom of Benin and indeed the good people of Edo State are making history. A new dawn beckons as the 39th Oba of Benin is being crowned. Twenty-one days from now, that is on November 12, a new governor, elected after a fierce gubernatorial […]

Republican candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday would not commit to accepting the outcome of the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential election if he loses, challenging a cornerstone of American democracy and sending shock waves across the political spectrum.

Royal fathers, religious leaders, retired army generals and members of the Edo State Executive Council are among the early arrivals at Urhopkota, venue of the coronation of Crown Prince Eheneden Erediauwa as 39th Oba of Benin Kingdom.

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has been sued over alleged “campaign of calumny against Mrs Dame Patience Jonathan using online, print and electronic media to publish to the public unfounded and malicious allegations that she stole $15m (US) and ought to be prosecuted.” In a statement dated 20 October 2016 and signed by SERAP […]

The Nigerian Navy has released the list of 2, 850 successful candidates for its 2016 Batch 25 Recruitment Exercise.

The Federal Government, yesterday, shunned the National Judiciary Council, NJC, and pressed ahead with its decision to bring the seven suspected corrupt judges to justice.

OFFICIALS of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have intercepted three hundred and twenty-five thousand, six hundred and forty euros (€325,640), thirty thousand dollars ($30,000), about N175 million smuggled from Greece and Austria at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMA2, Lagos.

An international carrier, Lufthansa Airline, on Thursday said it had no plan to reduce its flight operations in Nigeria.

Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and leader of the Oganiru Anambra Movement, OAM, Dr Alex Obiogbo­lu, has carpeted Governor Willie Obiano’s over his leadership style, accusing him of in­eptitude in handling the affairs of the state.

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Thursday promised to do more for the African-Americans than his rival Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton could do in her lifetime.

The attention of the members of the Civil Society Network Against Corruption (CSNAC) been has drawn to the claim of the National Judicial Council (NJC) that it has acted on all petitions alleging misconduct on the part of judicial officers in line with the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999. The claim of the National [p’[Judicial Council is completely misleading because it is far from the truth.

Detained former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, yesterday, stunned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, with a fresh revelation that he gave former Osun State Deputy Governor, Senator Iyiola Omisore, the sum of N1.7 billion out of the N4.7 billion he got from embattled former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki, retd.

YABA Baptist Church yesterday said it is set to mark its Annual thanksgiving celebration slated for November 6, this year.

Senator representing Ekiti South under the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Biodun Olujimi has said that it gladdens her heart that the released 21 Chibok girls were not sexually molested by the islamist Boko Haram terrorists while being their captives. Senator Biodun Olujimi Says It gladdens her heart that, the 21 released Chibok Girls […]

THE thirtieth anniversary of the assassination of the founding Editor-in-Chief of Newswatch Magazine, Mr. Dele Giwa provided an opportunity for Nigerians to urge the Federal Government to declassify the outcome of the various investigations into the matter, noting that doing so would easily unmask those behind the gruesome murder.