THE Senate has commenced the screening of former Senate leader, Senator Victor Ndoma- Egba as Chairman of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC and other members, just as it has vowed not bend the rules for anyone.

UMUAHIA—THREE of the survivors of last week’s ‘invisible hands’ attack in a hotel on 44, Uyo Street, Umuahia metropolis, Abia State, have regained consciousness, but cannot recall what happened to them.

For allegedly threatening to bathe a pastor with acid and destroying his church, a 40-year-old Muslim cleric, Saheed Gbadamosi, was on Tuesday hauled up before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court.

LAGOS— Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a 47-year-old man, who attempted to export 270 grammes of cocaine to Madagascar.

Viewers were taken aback when a brawl erupted on Egyptian television after two guests battled over Islamic religious law. They physically attacked each other with a studio chair and shoe. The brawl which aired on Egypt’s LTC TV was fueled by the men disagreeing over the use of headscarves.

For allegedly drugging and raping a 19-year-old girl, a 27-year-old male nurse, Olugbenga Isaac, was on Tuesday arraigned in an Ikeja Magistrates’ in Lagos.

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The mother of Nigerian Comedian, Bright Okpocha, popularly called Basketmouth, is dead.

Hurricane Matthew churned across the Caribbean, nearing Haiti with devastating force early Tuesday after claiming its first victims in the impoverished island nation.

Abuja – The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has cautioned investors in Nigeria against transacting business with Converged Dynamic International Limited allegedly engaging in illegal practice. In a statement by SEC on Thursday in Abuja it stated that the company is an unregistered firm dealing in a product tagged “Resources Investment Account,” offering interest rates […]

Ethiopia will on Wednesday launch Africa’s first modern electrified railway line. Built by China, the rail line links the Ethiopian capital , Addis Ababa with the port of Djibouti. The full length of the railway is 752.7 kilometers, with a designed speed of 120 km per hour. With a total investment of 4 billion U.S. dollars, it is was built by China Railway Group and the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation.

European Union (EU) official Fillippo Amato has advised the Federal Government to devalue the Naira as part of measures to tackle the economic recession.

Eight persons on Tuesday appeared before an Osogbo Magistrates’ Court in Osun over the theft of 1,000 chickens from a poultry farm.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday forwarded to the Senate for approval, the 2017, 2018 and 2019 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper, MTEF & FSP for discussions and subsequent approval.

The Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, found the erstwhile Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Orubebe‎, guilty of the allegation that he falsely declared his assets in 2007.