Amidst apprehension by Parents of the six Senior Secondary School students of Lagos Model College, Igbonla, Epe who were abducted Thursday morning by militants, Lagos State Government has given assurance that the girls will be rescued unhurt soon. Governor Akinwumi Ambode was said to have directed all security officers to comb the creeks and rescue the children alive.

The founder, Chief Eecutive Officer of Arkleel Oil and Gas, Dr Gregory Ero, yesterday told an Ikeja High Court how embattled Federal High Court Judge, Justice Rita Ofili Ajumogobia stopped picking his calls after she borrowed N18 million from him to buy a property in the UK.

One of Chelsea’s finest seasons is not even over, yet the club’s fans are talking excitedly about who they will sign during the summer.

TWO persons were again shot during a bloody clash between two rival cult groups in Ondo town, Ondo state. This is coming barely five days after a graduate ,Peter Sunday was shot dead by suspected cult groups in the same town.

The Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu has made a passionate appeal to the Federal Government to speed up the conversion of the nation’s first higher institution, Yaba College of Technology (Yabatech) to a university.

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo yesterday paid an unscheduled visit to Garki Model market, Abuja.

The Police Force headquarters in Abuja has issued a warning to the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the Biafra Independent Movement (BIM) as well as the Movement for the Actualization for the Sovereign State of Biafra to desist from their planned protest and directive ordering the closure of markets in all eastern states of the federation and others on May 30,2017.

Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) yesterday said that it recovered N134 billion loans in the 2016 financial year.

TWO outspoken Northern politicians- Balabare Musa and Junaid Mohammed – have given President Muhammadu Buhari, knocks and kudos for his performance in office within the first two years of his administration.

Nigerians say: “Like father, like son.” Igbos will say, whatever a snake births must be long. When NEPA was unbundled and privatized, the government promised an end to darkness. These new electricity companies haven’t just continued in NEPA’s dark ways. They have taken to the superciliousness and poor work ethics of public institutions that characterised NEPA. They can’t pretend not to be private companies. NEPA could give no power and yet conjure bills. Eko Distribution can’t do that, it’s fraud. NEPA didn’t need meters. It preferred what it called estimated billing. Eko Distribution can’t live that lifestyle, Nigeria is their Animal Farm.

The title of the newspaper advertisement, announcing the funeral of the first wife of former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Tony Anenih, simply read: “Our matriarch transits”.

DEPUTY Senate President, Sen Ike Ekweremadu has lamented that his house was raided yesterday by the Nigeria Police Force from the Inspector General of Police Special Squad, noting that nothing incriminating was found at the end of the exercise.

Nigerian Muslims will commence their 2017 Ramadan fasting today, the Nigerian Supreme Council For Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) has said. The Secretary General of NSCIA, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, said the crescent moon has been sighted in several locations across the country, and that fasting would commence today.

With the advent of democracy in Nigeria in 1999, the Niger-Delta region witnessed violent agitation for resource control and youth restiveness. This ushered in an era of insecurity plagued with kidnapping and bombings of oil installation. The nation’s economy was badly affected and this prompted the “carrot and stick approach” by former President Chief Olusegun […]

Professor of English and Literature in University of Benin,UNIBEN, Prof Tony Afejuku has said that the decision to write a poem in honour of a rights activist, Chief Rita Lori-Ogbebor was informed by what he termed Lori-Ogbebor’s pursuits for equity and justice at her own expense.