The Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN), has dissociated itself from an excellence award night being organised by a group.

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has urged motorists and other road users on the Benin-Auchi highway to avoid overload and speeding to reduce the rate of road fatality during the festive period.

U.S. Embassy in Ankara on Tuesday issued a statement saying that U.S. mission to Turkey will be closed.

Former South-African President and anti-apartheid activist, Nelson Mandela in his famous quote said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

THE Nigerian healthcare delivery system is a source of concern to all because of the needless deaths of citizens and the capital flight that the health sector has come to represent in our time.

By Anayoi Okoli UMUAHIA — RELIEF is coming the way of motorists and commuters plying the busy but deplorable Umuahia-Ikot Ekpene federal road following the flag-off of palliative repairs on the road by the Federal Road Maintenance Agency, FERMA. Greater part of the Abia end of the road is ridden with  dangerous and deadly potholes. […]

President Muhammadu Buhari and former President Olusegun Obasanjo, will be leading other eminent personalities and delegates to attend the maiden South-East Economic and Security Summit- SEESS 2016 – holding at the Enugu State Government House, Independence Layout, Enugu on Thursday, December 22, 2016.

COMMUNITY Development Advocacy Foundation, CODAF, a non-governmental organisation, has told the Federal Government to stop celebrating the discovery of crude oil in Borno and Lagos States and focus on how to come up with a good revenue model that would reduce fossil fuel dependence with strong commitment to combat climate change.

By  Abdulwahab  Abdulah Abuja—Justice G.O. Kolawole of the Federal High Court, Abuja  had ordered 24-hour police protection for the leader of the Shi’ite Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, and his wife anytime they are released from custody. El-Zakzaky was arrested by the military last December after a clash between the movement and officers of […]

The federal government is expected to earn about $2 billion (about N61billion) from a new cash call policy that comes into effect in January 2017, while its oil production is set to increase to 2.5 million barrels per day in 2019.

Chairman of a faction of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, and a former chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, yesterday met behind closed doors to discuss the leadership crisis in the party.

By Nwabueze Okonkwo ONITSHA — The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has   warned President Muhammadu Buhari not  to visit any part of Biafra land for any reason whatsoever, as he is proposing to do. IPOB said it would amount to a very big insult to the memory of all the unarmed Biafran heroes and heroines, […]

By Rotimi Ojomoyela Ado Ekiti—The paymaster of the Ekiti State Police Command and a Superintendent of Police, Mr. Idowu Taiwo, was, yesterday, found dead. He had been kidnapped on Sunday night by unknown gunmen. Taiwo was reported to have been found dead in a car in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, yesterday by detectives, […]

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is working on a Memorandun of Understanding, MoU, with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to curb market infractions by operators.

Two female suicide bombers were, Sunday night, killed when their weapon went off as they attempted to invade Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, officials said. The incident that happened at about 10.30p.m., near Muna Garage, one of the most attacked motor parks in recent times, left three villagers injured. It was learned that the two […]