The 2015 Presidential candidate of the National Conscience Party (NCP), Chief Martin Onovo, has commended ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s call for Igbo Presidency in 2019.

Following are the quarter-final pairings at the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Gabon, after the conclusion of the group phase matches on Wednesday:

The Igbo Conscience Group (ITC), a civil society organisation on Thursday urged people from the South-East region of the country to ignore the call by former President Olusegun Obasanjo for Igbo presidency in 2019.

A 12-year-old girl was among six people shot on Wednesday night during a vigil in Chicago for a gunshot victim, local media said.

Six of the nine members of the Senate Ad-Hoc Committee on the Humanitarian Crisis in the North-East signed the report of the committee that indicted Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Babachir Lawal, investigations have revealed.

More than 40,000 Nigerians will on Thursday discover if London’s High Court can rule on their pollution claims against Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell over spills in the Niger Delta.

NATIONAL Leader of All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, yesterday, outlined steps that can urgently take Nigeria out of recession, if taken.

The Northern Governors’ Forum, NGF, has resolved to work with relevant stakeholders to secure Nigeria’s borders and register Fulani immigrants entering into the country to rear cattle, noting that most of the herdsmen involved in issues of insecurity are immigrants from Senegal and Mali.

THE Roman Emperor Pliny is often quoted to have observed that “out of Africa, there is always something new”. We can take liberties with this position and say that out of the state of OSUN in Nigeria’s South west we have seen a host of policy thrusts and initiatives now been adopted at the centre.

By Sebastine Obasi, with agency reports LAGOS — Chairman of Transcorp Group and United Bank for Africa, UBA, Mr Tony Elumelu, has said Nigeria’s power sector will soon collapse if urgent action was not taken. Elumelu told CNBC Africa: “The agency of government that is responsible for making sure that this sector delivers on its […]

FORMER governor of Abia State and senator representing Abia Central senatorial zone, Theodore Orji, yesterday, said his home state, where he served as governor for eight years was not paying him pension.

The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has raised alarm over what it called “the rising cases of Female Genital Mutilation and Cutting, FGMC, in Imo State.”

DARE-DEVIL robbers, believed to be working as a syndicate, have reportedly raided Imo State House of Assembly and carted away cash, valuable documents and electronic equipment.

Edo Forum of Patriots, EFP, has urged the National Assembly not to pass the proposed National Grazing Reserve Council Bill into law, saying it contradicts the Land Use Act which vested powers to allocate lands to the federal, state and local governments.

An Oredo Magistrate’s Court in Benin, yesterday, ordered the remand in prison custody of two men, Paul Frank, 31, and Christian Ejimofor, 22, over alleged homosexuality and stealing.