UYO—A-32-year-old Pastor’s wife of an undisclosed church located in Nsit Atai Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State identified as Mrs. Victoria Elijah Ndu has been arrested for planning her kidnap.

The Buhari administration has urged the US government to step up its assistance in ensuring that corrupt officials don’t get a safe haven abroad for their loot, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN.

HUNDREDS of women of Uvwie Kingdom, Uvwie Local Government Area, Delta State, yesterday, barricaded the Effurun roundabout axis of the East/West Road, protesting the alleged illegal acquisition and sale of over 185.20 hectares of their land by the Nigerian Army.

News that the Budget Office of the Federation and the Federal Ministry of Finance have commenced the processes for preparing the 2018 budget of the Federal Government must have delighted champions of fiscal discipline.

Officials of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF have disclosed that they expect a full house tomorrow  in the Super Eagles training camp in Uyo ahead of Friday’s World Cup qualifier against Cameroon, just as skipper Mikel Obi will lead part of the squad out of Abuja to camp today.

I was a beneficiary of sound and qualitative education  given and derived from the core Western Region qua State from my primary school, through to secondary school, and up to higher school (HSC). I stand here to pay tributes to the then Premiers and Military Governors of the then Western Region/State in those days. As at today, it appears no State, particularly from the South West, is in control of the education syllabus of primary and secondary school pupils and students respectively. I venture to ask, perhaps for my education, whether primary and secondary school students in the entire

Super Eagles Assistant Coach, Salisu Yusuf says the team is optimistic of victory over Cameroon in the 2018 World Cup qualifier scheduled for Uyo on Friday.

We are not talking about weak centre. You contribute in accordance with the responsibility of the centre. Have you seen a place in the world where they say a local government is created by the federal government? Think of that. Have you seen a situation where the wealth from one end of the country is shifted to the federal government to share.

Gaou Moussa stands in front of his family home nestled in the dense vegetation of Chad’s Tchoukouli island, where burnt straw and charred wood still litter the ground from a Boko Haram attack three years ago.

I have followed with keen interest the controversy over the announcement of cut-off marks for Nigeria’s admission processes for the 2017/2018 session, with many commentators and the general public insisting that it is unwise, insensitive and retrogressive, to reduce the cut off mark for admissions into our tertiary institutions: 120 for universities, 100 for polytechnics and monotechnics, and a tentative 110 for Innovative Enterprise Institutions (IEIs).

Abia State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Leye Oyebade, has warned that any policeman found extorting motorists and abusing human rights would face dismissal, no matter his rank.

As scathing condemnation continues to trail the brutal murder of 10-year old Somtochukwu Ibeanusi, the 34 Artillery Brigade, Obinze, has said it did not come into the Ekeukwu Owerri saga on its own.

The emergence of Dr. Tony Nwoye as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC came as a shock to many political pundits. It was especially so, given the calibre of the persons he beat to win the ticket of the ruling party to contest the forthcoming election.

The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, stated in its latest report released yesterday that food price pressure continued into July as all major food sub-indexes increased, with food inflation in the country rising by 20.28 per cent Year-on-Year (YoY) in July.

The Judicial Panel of Enquiry set up to probe the administration of former Governor Kayode Fayemi, which began hearing yesterday, was told how  the former governor allegedly made N18 billion deductions from the allocations received between 2010 and 2014.