CALABAR—A self-acclaimed traditional healer, Edem Bassey Otu, arrested with two human skulls while allegedly preparing some cultists for an outing, said the Police have no right to arrest him because the skulls were left behind by his father, who died some eight years ago.

Tension is brewing in Akwa Ibom State over deferral in the reconstitution of Effiat Oil and Gas Relations Committee in Mbo Local Government Area of the state.

THE people of Aghoro I and II groups of communities in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State have slammed Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, for allegedly abandoning the communities after an oil spillage from the multinational operations oilfield left the people devastated.

United Labour Congress of Nigeria, ULC, has described Monday’s protest by Policemen maintaining security in Bornu State over unpaid benefits as a shame and the height of insensitivity of Police authority.

The Edo State Government on Tuesday hosted the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) and the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI) to a two-day capacity building workshop for stakeholders in the state, involved in migration management.

Tarfa was retired and shunted into the office of Managing Director, Nigerian Railways -a corporation that was fast degenerating.It was a job he confessed he didn’t know anything about

Three trailer loads of  aliens from a neighbouring country allegedly recruited to vote in the Ekiti governorship election are  travelling to Ekiti State have been intercepted in Lokoja, Kogi State by the Nigeria Immigration Service yesterday.

A  Federal  High Court sitting in Calabar, Cross River State, yesterday,  declared the arrest and continued detention of governor Ayade’s aide, Mr. Daniel Asuquo and two others from their residence as illegal and  ordered for their immediate release to the police.

Delta State  government has said that it will continue to partner National Association of Nigerian Theatre Arts Practitioners (NANATAP), in order to promote culture and tourism in the State.

A non-governmental organisation, Nation First Foundation, NFF, has hailed the World Bank for including 324, 000 women as part of beneficiaries in its approved seven intervention projects to support the Nigerian Government in tackling poverty.

By Dayo Adesulu Sstudents of the 21st Century have been enjoined  to combine book reading and technology to enhance perfect learning, as the reading habit of many have  fast depreciated. It was suggested that while technology via mobile phones, has taken over book reading in the lives of many youths, both the book and technology […]

The governorship candidate of Accord Party in Ekiti State, Surveyor Abiodun Aluko has asked the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), Prof Kola Olusola to be wary of those declaring support for him, saying they are out to defraud him.

PERHAPS, as a prelude to carrying out the rumoured plot of the Edo State Government to remove the solar-powered streetlights installed by Senator Matthew Urhoghide on several streets in Benin City, the agents of the State Government and the APC have embarked on the removal of the labels on the lampposts, which indicate that Senator Urhoghide is the facilitator of the lighting project.

THE Federal Government, through the Nigerian Shippers Council, NSC, has commenced moves to harmonize maritime laws relating to international trade with a view to bringing about an efficient trade within the region.

Keith Shiri  is a curator of African film, and an art exhibitor, based in Beirut (Lebanon) and London—where he serves as Programme Advisor to the British Film Institute.
Zimbabwean by birth,  Shiri  has been an African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) Juror since the ceremony’s inception, in 2004.