ENUGU—Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria, REDAN, South-East zone has concluded arrangements to host a major Housing Summit and Exhibitions next month.

President Muhammadu Buhari felicitates with national female basketball team, D’Tigress, for a highly impressive outing at the FIBA Women’s AfroBasket 2019 in Dakar, Senegal, that saw them coasting home to victory at the finals, winning the hosts, 60-55.

The Progressive Students Movement (PSM), a pan-African students’ movement, on Sunday, condemned the attack on Sen. Ike Ekweremadu by the proscribed Independent People of Biafra (IPOB) in Germany.

The Nigeria women national basketball team, D’Tigress on Sunday defeated hosts Senegal in the final of the FIBA Women’s AfroBasket to win their fourth continental title.

The leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has vowed to reward anyone with useful information on overseas traveling schedule of South-East governors and other Igbo leaders.

Former Minister of Transportation and  current ministerial nominee,  Hon Rotimi Amaechi has been promoted to the highest rank in the Catholic church under the order of  the Knights of St. John

WARRI—Provost,  Federal College  of  Education (Technical),  Asaba, Delta State, Dr Josephine Okeakwa, has enjoined youths to shun cultism and the unhealthy drive to get rich quickly by all means.

BENIN CITY—FEW days after motor spare part sellers at Uwelu market in Edo State lost millions of naira wotth of goods to a midnight fire, a group, Coalition for Good Governance and Economic Justice in Nigeria, CGGEJ, yesterday, said the inability of the Governor Goodwin Obaseki administration to equip the state’s fire service contributed to the huge loss suffered by the traders.

YENAGOA—THE Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has directed the Bayelsa State Election Petition Tribunal to immediately resume trial on the petition  by All Progressives Congress, APC, and its candidate for Bayelsa Central senatorial district in the 2019 general election, Mr. Festus Daumiebi.

By Nkechi Odoma The office of the Chief of Army Staff ( COAS) is powerful anywhere by every yardstick of perception. The occupant of the exalted office, and in the case of Nigeria now, Lt. Gen. Tukur Yusufu Buratai who wears a second heavier badge as leader, counter-insurgency operations is an influential personality by all […]

LAGOS—HUMAN rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN, yesterday, asked the Federal Government to direct all security agencies in Nigeria to publish the names of all detainees and their places of detention.

By Philip Agbese The supremo of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheik Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, finally had his wish to travel abroad for medical treatment granted. This should ordinarily have been a good development, especially in a country where the perception is that getting treatment abroad is the ultimate when healthcare is concerned. But for […]

Former Commissioner of Police in Lagos and Benue States, Mr Fatai Owoseni, has been appointed by the Governor of Oyo State, Engineer Seyi Makinde, as his Special Adviser on Security Matters. The Governor, according to a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Taiwo Adisa, approved the appointment, which took effect from August 1. […]

Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta has condemned the attack on Sen. Ike Ekweremadu, immediate past Deputy President of the Senate at the 2nd Annual Igbo Cultural Festival held in Nuremberg, Germany, on Saturday. 

As Edo State prepares to host the 2019 edition of the National Festival for Arts and Culture (NAFEST) scheduled to hold in Benin City, bronze casters and other stakeholders in the hospitality and tourism sectors are strategising on how to attract over 2,000 art lovers and culture enthusiasts expected to be in the state for the event.