The people of Egwedu Community in Njaba Local Government Area of Imo State have appealed to Governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Okorocha to avert imminent bloodshed and breakdown of law and order in the community, by intervening in the over 16 years crisis over who occupies the traditional ruler’s stool and the seat of the President-General of the town union.

AWKA — ANOTHER August has come and married women in Igbo land are again busy with the annual event in their various communities. The annual August meeting has been entrenched in the calendar of Igbo women and they always look forward to it. It has become customary for most women who are civil servants to fix their annual leave in August to enable them interact with their fellow women in the rural areas without having to worry about their offices during the period.

ABUJA—A week after masked personnel of the Department of State Security, DSS, laid siege to the National Assembly complex, the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has declared three days of prayers for the protection of Nigeria’s democracy.

From the southern border with Guatemala to the northern border with the United States, AFP spent 24 hours traveling with migrants who are crossing Mexico to chase their American dreams.

It is pouring rain, but Norma Romero is standing by the train tracks as she does every night, ready to hand food to migrants crossing Mexico on the freight train known as “The Beast.”

Ahead of 2019 elections, first democratically-elected governor of Kaduna State in the Second Republic, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, has endorsed the aspiration of the General Secretary of National Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria, NUTGTWN, Mr. Issa Aremu, for Kwara State governorship election, citing his commitment to the struggle for social justice and development in the country.

FORMER Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has solicited  the royal blessings of the Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare 11 as he faces the September 2018 presidential primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. 

ABUJA—The Federal High Court in Abuja, yesterday, insisted that Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Mr. Mahmood Yakubu, must be arrested and produced before it on August 16 to face contempt charge against him.

Christian Association of Nigeria in Taraba State has raised the alarm, alleging plots by some politicians to plunge the state into further crisis by destabilising the 2019 general election.

MARITIME Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to direct the immediate payment of monthly pension to  seafarers  retired as a result of the liquidation of the defunct Nigerian National Shipping Line, NNSL, in line with the ruling of the Nigerian Industrial Court, NIC.

Ride hailing apps like Uber, Taxify, among others, must now have to continually look behind their shoulders as a Nigeria ride hailing app, Carxie makes its way into the system.

THE ongoing struggle for the control of the National Assembly and by extension Nigeria’s political space by the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is not about ending even when the 2019 elections are still many months away. At present, the battle between the two leading parties is playing out mostly among the country’s legislators in the national and state assemblies. Things took a dramatic turn last week when operatives of the Department of State Security, DSS, took over entrance to the National Assembly in a move the PDP and especially, President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, has interpreted as an attempt to unseat him as the leader of the Nigerian senate.

President Donald Trump lashed out at his former “Apprentice” and White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman Tuesday in especially angry terms, slamming her as a “dog” and a “crazed, crying lowlife” as her tell-all book hit stores.

CEO of Simplex Business Solutions, Mr. Femi Adeniyi, has said that Business intelligence amongst other technological forces, will continue to shape the future of work and workplace in Africa especially as analytics continues its steady growth and data visibility becomes clearer.

Recently, issues around the 30 per cent broadband penetration target Nigeria set for itself with the National broadband plan in 2013, have been more controversial than any other development in the telecom sector.