People with chronic pain, medical illnesses, caregiver burden, on drugs and those abusing substances such as cocaine and alcohol are at increased risk of depression

FIVE persons have so far lost their lives in Nteje, Anambra State and 18 others, including a brother to the popular Nollywood actor, Pete Edochie, are being detained in Abuja over protracted land dispute in the community.

THE Federal Government has invited Russia and investors from the country to invest in the Nigerian oil and gas sector. In a statement by the Ministry of Petroleum Resources in Abuja, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr. Ibe Kachikwu met with his Russian counterpart, Alexander Novak, where they explored areas of mutual interest in the oil industries of their countries.

OKOROBA—THERE is intense anxiety at Okoroba, a riverine community in Nembe Local Government Area, Bayelsa State, over the arrest and protracted detention by the police of six members of the town’s vigilante group, accused of killing a 23-year-old indigene, Opp Amond, three months ago.

Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State, yesterday, ordered the arrest of hoodlums that allegedly diverted Ramadan food items meant for internally-displaced persons, IDPs, in Maiduguri Metropolitan Council and Jere council of the state.

ALL private and mission schools in Anambra State would remain closed today in obedience to the sit-at-home directive by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.

WARRI—CONVENER/COORDINATOR of the Niger Delta People’s Congress and a leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, High Chief Mike Ekayama Loyibo, has faulted the perception that the Ijaw ethnic group was using other nationalities of the Niger-Delta region as hostages to fortune under the façade of Niger-Delta struggle.

THE banking industry recorded sluggish growth within the first two years of the President Buhari administration. Even that marginal growth was mired by phenomenal increase in non-performing loans, NPLs, occasioned by combination of naira depreciation, high inflation and downturn in economic activities.

The best way to stop the attacks and criticisms is for Professor Oloyede to transform JAMB to present day modernity

It normal for people to resist change, innovation and the unfamiliar but it is prudent not to overdo the phobia for novelty especially when the benefit outweighs the downside. An article by Wale Fatade, published online and titled “JAMB’S computer-based torture” however went to the extreme in its criticism of the just conducted Unified Tertiary […]

WITH the latest update on the 2017 budget upheavals taken to a ridiculous level by the two key arms of the Federal Government – the Executive and the Legislature, we draw attention to the wider policy implication of the continued delay in putting the spending plan into operation.

BURUTU— A coalition of six civil society groups, CSOs and riverine dwellers in Delta State, last week, served Governor Ifeanyi Okowa a notice of their plan to protest against him today (Tuesday) over alleged abandonment of Ayokoromo-Egbo-Ede Bridge project in Burutu Local Government Area by him.

A group of investors and indigenes of the Niger Delta, yesterday, condemned the Federal Government’s cancellation of Oil Prospecting Licences, OPL 2001, 2002 and 2003 in the Utapate field, stating that it was capable of re-igniting chaos in the Niger Delta region.

Outgoing Theatre Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, Major General Lucky Irabor, yesterday, insisted that Boko Haram had been defeated.