SINCE the eruption of the murderous attacks of the terrorist Boko Haram insurgents in North East Nigeria in 2009, internal security has become a major challenge in the most populous African nation, Nigeria.

By Elizabeth Uwandu UGHELLI—Niger Delta Stakeholders for Change, NDSC, has applauded President Muhammadu Buhari for the nomination of Samuel Adjogbe as Executive Director Project on the board of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, describing it same as a merited decision judging from his experience in project design, planning, monitoring and control. The group in a […]

Hussein, who has been seeking for a job for a long time was deceived by his friend, David Arafat, who connived with an accomplice to perpetrate the dastardly act.

—Hard time awaits foreign fishing trawlers operating illegally on Nigeria territorial waters as the Federal Government has ordered the Nigerian Navy to put a stop to their activities.

UGHELLI—A militant group, Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate, NDGJM, in the early hours of yesterday, blew up the Afiesere-Iwhrenene major delivery line to UPS/UQCC, operated by Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NDPC/Shorelines Petroleum, in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State.

Contrary to reports, Kabiru Dikko, mastermind of 2011 Christmas Day bombing, is still in custody, the Nigerian Prisons Service said yesterday.

Former First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, has written a letter the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) explicating that the $31.4 million connected to the financial fraud levelled against Mr. Waripamo Dudafa by EFCC was for the payment of the medical bills she incurred in London in 2013.

It is no more news that Justice Abang had in a judgement he delivered on June 27, sacked Governor Ikpeazu from office over alleged tax infractions, even as he directed the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to issue fresh Certificate of Return to Mr. Sampson Ogah who came second in the gubernatorial primary the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, conducted in Abia State on December 8, 2014.

Seven suspected criminals, who took part in kidnappings, armed robberies and pipeline vandalism in Ikorodu, Arepo and Ibafo areas of Lagos and Ogun states, have been arrested by the police.

With pressures from an economy in recession it was not surprising that President Muhammadu Buhari in letting off steam inveighed against what he claimed as the decadence left for him by 16 years of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in power.

Economic recession is a merciless monster which devours just about everybody, especially the most socially and economically vulnerable. In just about every society in Africa, women and children constitute the most vulnerable, even in the best of times. They are, once again, set to be the worst-hit victims of the just confirmed recession.

Worried by the accusation emanating from one Alhaji Sodu,an Enugu-based Fulani herdsman who claimed over the weekend that three of his sons and over 100 cows were missing, an aftermath of an alleged attack by Aku community youths, the entire Aku Welfare Association Federated, AWAF, yesterday, disassociated the community from such nefarious activities.

Wife of Borno State governor, Hajiya Nana Kashim Shettima, yesterday hosted about 500 children, mainly orphans, drawn from four internally-displaced persons, IDPs, camps in Maiduguri metropolis and Jere Local Govern-ment Area as part of Eid el-Kabir celebration.

Some of the country’s leading personalities in the professions and politics led by former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday eulogised the late Dr. Olusegun Agagu, former governor of Ondo State as a man of courage and vision who worked tirelessly for Nigeria and Ondo State.

Disturbed by the spate of reported cases of HIV/AIDS, the Emir of Dutse, Dr. Nuhu Muhammad Sunusi, has said, henceforth, couples living in his emirate must undergo test before marriage.