The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced that more than 600,000 people would have access to affordable power and the internet under the U.S. Power Africa Initiative.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called on the Federal Government to apprehend and prosecute those who carried out the attack on Rann town, in Borno.

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue and major stakeholders of the state have urged the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Ibrahim Idris and those kicking against the recently enacted Open Grazing Prohibition of the state to seek redress in court to canvass their position on the law.

On Monday, February 19, 2018, Boko Haram insurgents invaded Government Girls Science Technical College in Dapchi, Yobe state, abducting 110 of the 906 student population.    It was yet another tragic day for a nation that is yet to get over a similar incident that took place on April 14, 2014 in Chibok, Borno state, when the insurgents invaded Government Secondary School, carting away as “ready luggage” 276 schoolgirls.

President Muhammadu Buhari may have strengthened his hand in getting the presidential ticket of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, with last Tuesday’s sweeping extension of the tenure of the National Working Committee, NWC.

Following increased calls for climate funding, Mr Ahmad Salihijo, a technical assistant to the Minister of Environment, said the ministry planned to issue N150 billion green bonds to the public.

The kidnapped wife and child of reporter of Voice of America (VOA) in Kaduna have been freed.

Recent reports of violations by underage persons following the local government elections in Kano State are deeply disturbing.   The voter register in Kano State is the one used for the 2015 general election. In July 2016, INEC used the same register to conduct a State Assembly bye-election in Minjibir Constituency.

The Alafin is firing on all cylinders. He will be 80 this year. One of his young wives had a set of twins last week. Another young wife had a set of twins this week. Alafin’s virility must be studied. He must have the virilty of a fresian bull.

The body of late Mrs Angelina Ikechi Egbuka aged 74, the first Commissioner of Police in the then Eastern Nigeria, was received at the Imo State Police Headquarters in Owerri yesterday.

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FORMER WBA light heavyweight, British and Commonwealth boxing champion, Peter Oboh,who dumped his boxing career to win souls for God few years back, went down memory recently, declaring  that his greatest regrets remain his inability to seek recognition back home. 

An Indian farmer has come up with a novel way of protecting his bountiful crop from jealous neighbours and pilfering cabbage-thieves.

THE League of Patriotic Lawyers has hailed Vice President Yemi Osinbajo for saying that the executive would not change its position on the chairmanship of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

A chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ughelli  North Local Government Area and former President General of Ughelli Descendant Union, UDU, Chief Patrick  Egone, has expressed optimism that the people of Delta State will give Governor Ifeanyi Okowa a second mandate in 2019.