ENUGU— Delegates  from United Nations, UN, have met with apex Igbo organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, over issues on agitation for a Biafra republic and how to strengthen the unity of Nigeria.

I wouldn’t want to start by criticising Governor Willie Obiano so that it won’t look as if I am talking because I am contesting against him. But I want a situation where the masses will tell me that I am working. If Willie is actually working, the masses will know and advertise for him.

President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, met with Interior Affairs Minister, Lt. General Abdulrahman Dambazau (retd), over the rumpus caused by the recall of  former chairman of the Presidential Task Team on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina.

THE Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, said the total value of electronic payment (e-payment) transactions in the country in 2016 rose to N74.9 trillion, up 33 percent from N56.3 trillion recorded in 2015.

Delta State Government has agreed to take over the operations of the two cottage hospitals at Tsekelewu and Oporoza communities built by Egbema and Gbaramatu Communities Development Foundation, EGCDF, through the sponsorship of Chevron Nigeria Limited for the people of the riverine communities to have access to good health facilities.

MINISTER of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige has expressed shock over the tragic passing on of Jide, the son of the former Governor of Lagos State and leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu.

The Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, said his administration would commission the State’s General Hospital in Otuo before December 25, 2017.

GOVERNOR Rochas Okorocha of Imo State yesterday said that there will be no automatic ticket for President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 election if he decides to seek re-election.

Former Vice President and chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC has reportedly declared his ambition to vie for the presidency in 2019.

In keeping with its commitment to promote qualitative education and sustainable development in Nigeria, Keystone Bank Limited, has handed over a renovated and fully equipped Sick Bay to Dodan Barracks Primary School, Obalende, Lagos to manage remote health challenges of the students. Speaking on the lender’s passion for investment in the education sector at the […]

BENIN—EDO State-born ace musician, Osayomore Joseph, finally regained freedom yesterday, after a month in kidnappers’ den.

SUICIDE rates will multiply in Nigeria not because times are hard. Times were hard during the Biafran war. The problem now is that adults are increasingly immature. The society is increasingly frivolous,  people no longer seem to have true friends and friends now see themselves more as rivals. The race is measured by wealth and nothing else. Setbacks are mourned as wasted life by those who should give love and genuine support. So a troubled man becomes the butt of jokes by those in whom he has reposed his trust.”

THE Federal Road Safety  Corps, FRSC, and Guinness Nigeria Limited, Wednesday, kicked-off the ember months road safety awareness in demonstration of the continued advocacy of road safety in the country and to entrench sanity on Nigerian roads. The campaign tagged “Responsible Drinking Activity” was held at the Guinness’ Ogba office in Lagos, to further underscore their positive disposition to a multi-sectoral approach to road safety management in the country.

It is indeed a testament to his being destined for the top that the more he shies away from leadership and prominent positions, the more they beckon on him

Arsenal reached the Europa League last 32 Thursday as Everton crashed out and Patrice Evra was red-carded for a karate kick at one of his own Marseille fans — before the match had even started.