Days after the end of the global fiesta, distressing videos and photos of stranded Nigerian youths sleeping on the streets of Russia trended like wildfire. In a scenario reminiscent of the migrant slave trade scandal recently exposed by the CNN, videos of Nigerian young men calling for help to return to their country made the rounds.

PORT HAR-COURT— BARELY one month after being opened to the public, Rivjobs, the online portal initiated by Governor Nyesom Wike’s administration to match employers with employable job seekers in the state, has started to yield results.

ABUJA—THE Senate yesterday asked the Nigeria National Petroleum Company, NNPC, as well as oil and gas companies involved in the execution of the Obite-Ubeta-Rumuji (OUR) and North Option Pipeline (NOPL) Gas Pipelines Projects to appear before it to explain the astronomical cost of completing the two major gas pipeline projects by Ethese companies. 

MAIDUGURI—One of the arrested Boko Haram leaders and kidnappers of the Chibok schoolgirls, Mallam Mayinta Modu, alias Abor, aged 23, has revealed that each of them received N60,000 as ransom before they freed one batch of the abducted girls.

A GROUP within the All Progressives Congress , APC, in Osun State, the Integrity Group, has  thrown its weight behind the position of the National Working Committee, NWC, of the party on the conduct of the governorship primary election in the state through direct primary.

AFENIFERE chieftain, Chief Ayo Adebanjo has renewed the group’s call for restructuring of the Nigerian federation for proper functioning of the Nigerian federalism.

LAFIA—THERE is fear is Nasarawa State, following the emergence of a new sect known as Hakika, operating in Total Local Government Area of the state.

FORMER Deputy Governor of Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore, has emerged as the governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP.

I was shocked beyond description when I received the sad news of the departure of our erudite former Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Hon. Justice Alloysius Katsina-Alu, a Minister in the Temple of Justice and a man who occupied the Bench with unquestionable integrity, character, industry and dignity.

It was an awful sight at Upper Iweka area of Onitsha, Anambra State, yesterday, when a cart pusher brought out a new born baby that had been stabbed to death, wrapped in a black polythene bag and dumped in the drainage along Enugu/Onitsha Expressway by Romchi Park.

The household name APC Akida was first initiated and came into limelight in Kaduna State. It was initiated by the likes of the pioneer and Interim Management Committee Chairman of the APC in Kaduna, Dr. Hakeem Baba Ahmed; Tom Mataimaki Maiyashi; Senator Shehu Sani; former APC Governorship aspirant in the 2015 general elections, Hon. Isa Ashiru; Ambassador Sule Buba; Alhaji Yaro Makama; and Hajia Hafsat Baba among others.

Super Eagles striker, Alex Iwobi in explaining his lack of game time at the Russia 2018 World Cup, has stated that coach Gernot Rohr was trying a new thing at the tournament.

The United Nations, UN, has said the demarcation of the Cameroon-Nigeria border continues to face challenges due to insecurity in areas affected by the presence of Boko Haram.

ABUJA— Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State may have shelved his decision to leave his ruling All Progressives Congress APC, following a trouble-shooting meeting he had with National Chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, in Abuja, yesterday.

FMDQ OTC Securities Exchange yesterday listed Dangote Cement Plc’s N50 billion commercial papers, CPs, the biggest CP programme so far on the Nigeria debt capital market on its platform.