A gunman opened fire on a worker at a Texas barbershop Saturday after an apparent argument over a child’s haircut, police say. The Harris County Sheriff’s office tweeted Saturday that they were looking for the man who shot a male employee of a barbershop in the Houston suburb of Katy. ALSO READ: US Navy bans TikTok […]

Releases N100m as compensation to Ekiosa inferno victims The Edo State Government has shed more light on the activities of suspected arsonists, working in cohorts with unscrupulous politicians under the aegis of the disbanded Edo Peoples Movement (EPM), to sabotage markets in Benin metropolis and the state government. The State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, said […]

ALLEGED quest for  control of oil benefits has split Okoroagu community, Etche Local Government Area, Rivers State, into two factions.

Oil was little changed on Monday, holding near a three-month high on optimism over a nearing U.S.-China trade deal even as Russia said an OPEC-led pact may consider easing output cuts next year. Brent crude LCOc1 was up 9 cents, or 0.14%, at $66.23 per barrel by 1240 GMT in thin trading ahead of the […]

A Turkish team was in Russia on Monday for talks on the conflicts in Syria and Libya, following reports that tens of thousands more Syrians were heading to Turkey, which already hosts to the world’s biggest refugee population. President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday more than 80,000 civilians in Syria’s northwest Idlib province were migrating […]

In the bid to improve the quantum and quality of power being supplied to customers, BEDC Electricity Plc (BEDC) seeks to engage with power generation companies within and outside Nigeria specialising in embedded generation in order to achieve its aims and objectives.

ALSO partly affected by the order like many others was Chief Christopher Adebayo Alao Akala (69), the former governor of Oyo State who is from Ogbomoso. In fact, the First Baptist Church in Oke-Elerin in Ogbomoso and its environ became a refugee camp for Nigerians deported from Ghana. Also affected by the order was my in-law, Chief Edward Afolabi Abimbola (1930-2017), the Lijofi of Idanre land, the first industrialist to build a bicycle factory in Ghana. When the factory was opened on January 16, 1969, the event made a front page lead in the Daily Graphic of January 17, 1969. Chief Abimbola married a pretty Ghananian princess, Miss Lucy Menya Dudome of Peki town in Volta Region, Ghana in 1965. When he was evicted from Ghana, he was only allowed to take his wife along with him and was forced to surrender all his properties in Ghana. So prominent was he in Ghana before 1969, that the Afenifere Leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo became his guest while in exile in Ghana.

BRITISH wartime Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill, famously noted that, “you do not negotiate borders – you defend them”. Borders are the hallmarks of a sovereign state. Any country that cannot control hers is not worthy of its own statehood. The current global system of territorial states that we operate began in continental Europe, with the Treaty of Westphalia 1648 that ended the devastating Thirty Years’ religious wars.

Universal Insurance Plc is set to raise N3.5 billion through combination of rights issue and share reconstruction in a bid to meet the June 2020 recapitalisation deadline of the National Insurance Commission.

The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has reaffirmed that his government will continue to pray and sue for peace in the state but not at the expense of the people of Edo State. Governor Obaseki spoke at the weekend when he led some members of the State Executive Council to the thanksgiving service of […]