THE Movement for the Actualization of Soverign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has said its planned sit-at-home method of Biafra Day celeberation is a test case to how its agitation for referendum would go.

Crude oil prices have risen from $53 to over $54 per barrel, the highest this year, as a result of speculation over the effectiveness of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries’ OPEC, meeting today.

GOVERNOR Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State, yesterday, attributed the delay in completing the on-going construction of Uyo-Ikot Ekpene dual carriage road project on the numerous litigations by property owners along the proposed highway.

Former Finance Minister, Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has said growth and development would not be achieved when a country has distortions in its foreign exchange rates.

Britain has raised its terror alert to the maximum level and ordered troops to protect strategic sites after 22 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack on a Manchester pop concert.

British police arrested a seventh person Wednesday in connection with the massacre at a Manchester pop concert that left 22 people dead. The arrest was made following searches at an address in the town of Nuneaton in central England, and is the first outside the Manchester area. “This evening we have been carrying out searches […]

Between January 1966 and September 1999, the military politicians who ruled Nigeria for close to thirty years – from Aguiyi Ironsi to Abdusalami Abubakar – introduced unitary features that were inspired by their military culture but were inconsistent with the features of the negotiated federal system introduced in 1954. It was in reference to this negotiated federal system that Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa made the following observation in 1957: “The federal system is, under the present conditions, the only basis on which Nigeria can remain united” (italics added). The extreme example of the military leaders’ unitary mind-set was Aguiyi Ironsi’s infamous “Unification” Decree of 1966 that precipitated the civil war.

Fighting corruption in Nigeria: Two timely interventions and one anti-climax Continues from yesterday It seeks to demonstrate how “this holistic approach would better position public institutions to engage Nigerian society in anti-corruption efforts.” Among its major recommendations, the Chatham House report suggests that “anti-corruption efforts may have the greatest chance of success if they stem […]

A 60-year-old British citizen pleaded guilty in New York on Wednesday to money laundering conspiracy in connection with the sweeping corruption scandal that has rocked world soccer.

Paul Pogba dedicated Manchester United’s Europa League title triumph on Wednesday to the 22 people killed in Monday’s terror attack in Manchester, defiantly saying: “We played for the people who died”.