The Federal Government, yesterday, launched a bitter but indirect rebuke on the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, as well as the Catholic Church over comments by both bodies regarding the wave of ethno-religious crisis in the Southern part of Kaduna State.

THIRTY-eight years after, retired Nigerian soldiers across the country who fought during the civil war, have complained about non-payment of their pension by the Federal Government.

The new year looks promising for Nigeria and other oil producing countries as oil prices hit 18-month high yesterday, the first trading day of 2017, buoyed by hopes that a deal between the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, and non-OPEC members to cut production, which kicked in on Sunday, January 1, 2017, will drain a global supply glut.

THE leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Ebonyi State, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu yesterday stressed that the era whereby the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was writing fake electoral results to win elections in the country was over

One of the attractions in the manifesto of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign was the promise to constitute the National Council on Public Procurement (NCPP) if voted into power.

Aviation stakeholders have suggested partial closure of the runway of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja to enable single aisle aircraft, that is medium range planes, to use the runway while construction and repairs are going on.

Indications have emerged that hackers are now stealing people’s bank details by sending files over the messaging service, WhatsApp.

NIGER Delta leaders and stakeholders were divided, yesterday, on the last minute resolution by the Presidency not to dialogue with the Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, boasting in its ranks, former Federal Commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Clark, former governor of Akwa Ibom State, Obong Victor Attah and ex-military governor of old Rivers State, HRM King Alfred Diete-Spiff.

‘TODAY,  I am giving glory to God, who lifted me up because going by the calculations of the powers that be in Akwa Ibom State, I was not to return to Akwa-Ibom House of Assembly after serving my first term. But God took me through the political journey after a tough primary and used my colleagues to elevate me as Speaker, when I was not in the calculation of the powers that be.’’

AFCON-bound Togo led by former Arsenal and Real Madrid star Emmanuel Adebayor arrived Monday morning on board a presidential jet for a training camp in Dakar, Senegal.

ON Monday, Nollywood actress, Funke Akindele-Bello and her husband, Rasheed Bello, popularly known as ‘JJC Skillz’, formerly based in the UK, hosted their friends and family members to a house warming party at their newly acquired apartment at Amen Estate in Ibeju Lekki area of Lagos State.

AN indigenous software developing company, Norak Technologies Limited, at the weekend disclosed plans to deploy its school management solution called Acadasuite to no fewer than six thousand schools across African sub-region in the next five years.

President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami (SAN) to investigate the involvement of any top government officials accused of any wrong-doing for prosecution if found liable is at risk of going the way of past probe that yielded little or no results. No. It is not because the ad-hoc panel is compromised; it is because the kind of people that published such past efforts are hard at work engaging their old tricks that may just again prove effective.

NSUKKA—THE Igbo Eze North Local Government stand at the recently concluded first Nsukka Trade Fair recorded more visitors than the other six local government stands as people gathered there to drink the popular Enugu- Ezike palm wine.

Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Abia State in the 2015 governorship election, Dr. Nyerere Anyim, has said his party’s performance in the December 21 local government polls has proven that APC is on ground in the state and set to win the 2019 general elections.