The Academic and non-academic staff unions of Alvan Ikoku Federal college of Education, Owerri, Imo state have declared a one week warning strike following the decision of the Governing council of the institution to extend the tenure of the Provost, Mrs Blessing Ijeoma who has attained the mandatory 65 years retirement age.

PORT HARCOURT: Ex-agitators in Niger Delta have pledged to work for peace in the region for development to thrive.

TODAY is International Friendship Day. Friendship is not just the best gift to humanity, it is also a gift that must be celebrated. International Friendship Day is observed annually every first Sunday of August. It is a day set aside to reflect on the essence and importance of friendship. It is also a day when friends celebrate the gift of their friendship through the exchange of gifts and pleasant-ries.

Nigeria Squash Federation president, Boye Oyerinde said the NSF will support and promote the up coming Chamberlain Squash Open (CSO) billed for August 20, at the Lagos Country Club Ikeja.

A 14-year-old girl, Precious Olaniyan, yesterday, narrated how she escaped death after she was attacked by a suspected member of the Badoo cult group.

The Caretaker Chairman of Magumeri Local Government Area of Borno State, Hon. Abubakar Abdulkadir, yesterday, threatened to sue a university lecturer from Keffi, Nassarawa State, Mr. Anthony Kolawole, for writing an opinion column in which he alleged that he not only sponsors Boko Haram but also pays ransoms and insurance fees to the terrorist group to carry out their activities.

GOVERNOR Godwin Obaseki says it is not healthy for Edo State to take domestic and foreign loans for now unless interest rate goes down.

Shocking revelations emerged yesterday, of how parents in Nigeria’s North East States of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe wilfully donate their children, particularly the girls, to be strapped with Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDs, and blown to pieces, as their contribution to Boko Haram.

AHEAD of the November gubernatorial election in Anambra State, the Action Democratic Party, ADP, has inaugurated a ten-man committee saddled with the responsibility of implementing its action plan for the election.

The Managing Director/Chief Executive of Medview Airline, Alhaji Muneer Bankole, has urged the federal government to create the environment for indigenous airlines to thrive.

ON May 17, 2017, I was taking my bath when the Holy Spirit ministered to me on this transfer. Also, I visited a veteran Minister of God and he told me (prophetically) that soon, I would be transferred to Bariga Assembly, meaning that the transfer is God ordained.

When your heart is truly open your heaven will be opened. Faith is the principal tool you need in the school of Dominion. In Acts 6:7, the bible says: “And the word of God increased, and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly, and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith”.

JESUS used five loaves of bread to feed 5,000 people. He then used seven loaves to feed 4,000. Nevertheless, instead of reaching the conclusion that because of him they would never again have to worry about bread, his disciples were still concerned when they forgot to bring bread with them on a trip

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has asked the Federal Government to investigate how Kogi State government spent the Paris Club refund expected to have been used to pay workers’ salaries, gratuity and pension.

APC is the new name of a party at war with itself which the PDP represented in the past, the only story now in the air about the APC, is that of crisis here and there