National leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and party chairman, Chief John Odigie Oyegun met face-to-face today in Abuja, at the launch of a book in honour of President Muhammadu Buhari.

THE Nigerian Urban Reproductive Health Initiative, NURHI, has called for increased uptake of modern family planning as a way of averting deaths of women and children in the country.

THE Federal Government has constituted a committee to screen shipping operators interested in acquiring part of the 60 percent holding for Nigerians in the proposed National fleet. The fleet is expected to have a 40 percent foreign ownership.

Reality star Kim Kardashian jetted home to the United States on Monday to be comforted by husband Kanye West, after being tied up at gunpoint in Paris and robbed of jewelry worth $10 million. The multimillionaire mother of two and wife of the American rap superstar, was holed up at a luxury apartment in New York’s swish Tribeca neighborhood “badly shaken but physically unharmed” after the assault.

ENUGU—Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, yesterday, ordered the Commissioner for Sports, Charles Ndukwe, to make travel arrangements to enable injured Rangers player,Ifeanyi Egwim,to get best medical attention abroad.

Energy giant, Shell, said there is need for global collaboration to create more and cleaner energy by bringing to life innovations from six smart energy start-ups.

OLEH—CHAIRMAN of Isoko North Local Government Area, Delta State, Mr. Emmanuel Egbabor, has described as false, rumours that the council forcefully acquired from the Ozoro community, the land on which it is currently building 50 housing units for staff and stakeholders in the area.

Yenagoa—Bayelsa State governor, Mr Seriake Dickson, has confered awards of excellence on two prominent indigenes of the state, Dr Gabriel Okara and Prof. Ebiegberi Alagoa.

Public primary and secondary schools in Bayelsa State are yet to resume for the 2016/2017 session because of the failure of the state government to settle the seven months salary arrears of teachers.

By Jimitota Onoyume PORT HARCOURT—THE Federal Government has been urged to compensate Cross River State for ceding Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon. President, Rights Monitoring Group, RMG, Mr Olufemi Aduwo made the appeal in a statement, stressing that the state should be compensated for  losing the rich peninsula. He advised the Federal Government to consider the […]

The Itsekiri National Youth Council, INYC, Worldwide, has congratulated Mr. Godwin Obaseki on his electoral victory in the just concluded Edo State governorship election, saying the victory was a testimony to the acceptability of his welfarist and grassroots-oriented programmes, as well as their belief in continuity of Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s laudable programmes.

A British man with HIV undergoing a pioneering treatment to cure him of the disease has shown “remarkable” progress, doctors have told a newspaper.

The birthplace of Islam containing Mecca – Islam’s holiest site – shifted to the western Gregorian calendar on Sunday, bringing the oil-rich kingdom in line with many of its energy customers.

Nigeria has spent 720.5 billion naira ($2.4 billion) on capital expenditure this year to help drag Africa’s biggest economy out of recession, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Saturday. “I believe that this recession will not last. Several hundreds of thousands of (unemployed) workers will be re-engaged in the next few months as our public works […]

A suicide bomber killed at least 22 people Monday in an attack targeting a party in the northeastern province of Hasakeh, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and medics said.