WARRI—Host communities of  Nigeria  Producing Oil and Gas, HOSCON, has lauded President Muhammadu Buhari for  supporting call  for the 13 percent derivation fund  to go to  oil bearing communities  in the Niger Delta region.

OWERRI—The  leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Uchenna Madu, yesterday said there was never a time MASSOB planned to carry out attack on Abia State Government House or the home of the Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu. 

Awka—Several corpses deposited at the Enugwu Ukwu General Hospital Mortuary in Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State were, weekend, reduced to ashes following a fire outbreak which source was not immediately known.

The Nigeria Police Force has said that its police operatives deployed to arrest Senator Dino Melaye in his residence will not retreat until the Senator surrenders himself for arrest and investigation.

Troops of 22 Brigade Garrison deployed in Operation Lafiya Dole on Sunday 30th December 2018, encountered and neutralised three female suicide bombers, while on patrol around Kubtara village in Dikwa Local Government Area of Borno State.

THE Nigerian Air Force said it would deploy two additional fighting helicopters to the North East by March,2019, to join the ones being used at the moment in the fight against insurgents in the region.

There are dozens of other parties jostling for various posts, including the Presidency. Some of their candidates hold some promise. However, these parties are like toddlers who need time to grow, and time is not what the country has because a decision has to be   made early in the year to guarantee an orderly electoral process on which the country’s democracy rests

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, said the report of corruption in the nation’s military hierarchy published by International Strategic Studies Association, ISSA, was a vindication of its position that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration war against corruption was a ruse.

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 40-year-old man for allegedly raping his neighbour’s daughter.

A Yoruba-based youth group, Progressive Yoruba Youth, on Sunday, warned the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), against raising false alarm over the proposed nationwide exercise tagged, Operation Python Dance III, introduced by the Nigerian Army. The group, while addressing journalists in Lagos, said PDP is only shedding crocodile tears over the exercise. PYY National President, Comrade […]

TWO  wrongs never make a right – whether in politics or in private relationships. President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria placed the 2019 Budget before the National Assembly, NASS, in late December, approximately three months behind schedule and then had the gall to ask the lawmakers to pass the budget in the national interest. That is bad leadership. A good leader builds with both hands; a bad leader who gives good advice but provides bad example builds with one hand and destroys with the other. When it comes to annual budgets, Buhari has spent the last three and a half years constructing with one hand and demolishing the edifice with the other.

THE organised labour, Sunday, mourned the demise of Nigeria’s first executive president, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, saying that the country would have been industrialized if not the 1983 coup that sacked the Shagari’s government.

By Owei Lakemfa BROTHER Seriake Dickson, Governor of Bayelsa State  has made a call on President Muhammadu Buhari  to set the tone for a debate on  restructuring in the country. I don’t know why people like teasing the President who had said he does not know what restructuring means even when it was in his […]

THE late Prof. Samuel Aluko was probably Nigeria’s best known Economist, until he passed on in 2012. In addition to his prowess as a notable scholar and sage, he later served as Chairman of the National Economic Intelligence Committee, in the Abacha Administration, and arguably provided the robust intellectual anchor to the military Dictator’s successful Economic Programmes, in which, despite Nigeria’s international pariah status, the naira notably remained stable at around N80=$1, even when the foreign reserves base was a paltry $4bn.

Four policemen arrested last week for dispossessing a Togo-based Nigerian, who was returning home for the Christmas celebration, of 350,000CFA, have been dismissed from the Force.