By Peter Duru Makurdi – The ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has recorded a clean sweep of last Saturday’s council elections held across the 23 Local Government Areas, LGAs, of Benue state. The party also cleared all the 276 available councilorship positions at the poll. Five political parties including the Social Democratic Party, SDP, Labour […]

By Evelyn Usman Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS  has arrested one  Olufowoke  Emmanuel, who threatened to post nude pictures of veteran Nigerian Singer, Queen Salewa Abeni, on social media. The 19-year-old suspect, a National Diploma holder in  Electrical Engineering, from the Yaba College of Technology, was apprehended at Brentfield Avenue, Peace Estate, Magboro, […]

Paris Saint-Germain has signed Argentina international Mauro Icardi from Inter Milan on a four-year deal after taking up the option to buy the on-loan forward, the two clubs announced on Sunday. Icardi joined PSG this season and impressed with 20 goals in 31 games, before the Ligue 1 campaign was stopped and his club crowned […]

By Soni Daniel – Abuja As opinions differ over the continued drawdown of huge loans by the Nigerian government, a former Minister, Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to make the most out of the various sums his administration has borrowed since it came to power in 2015. Gbagi, who was the Minister […]

ABUJA- THE Senate, yesterday took a swipe at the Executive Director, Projects of the Interim Management Committee, IMC of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Dr. Cairo Ojougboh, warning that the National Assembly will not succumb to cheap blackmail from him or any other quarters.

The ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in Cross River is leading with its candidates being declared winners in 10 LGAs so far, at the Saturday council elections held across the 18 Local Government Areas, LGA’s of the state.

ENUGU—IN celebration of 2020 Biafra Day, Alaigbo Development Foundation, ADF, has called on Ndigbo all over the world to continue to use May 30 every year as a remembrance day in memory of Biafra war of 1967-70.

By Obi Nwakanma Much hot air has been expended on the various reports about the migration of the so-called “Almajarai” to the South – mostly to the South/South and South/East states. Much concern is about the nature of these movement and their intentions, legality, and implications, particularly in this era of the national lowdown and […]

Delta State Governor Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa has congratulated Professor Innocent Ujah on his election as President of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA).

The HeartBeat Professionals Association, a social-political group has faulted the allegation brought against the president of African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, by the United State, noting that the action seems to systematically distract Africa’s agricultural sector projections.