Ask about N200,000 to N300,000 exchange hands before drivers access port By Levinus Nwabughiogu Worried by the continued gridlock and other traffic challenges in and within the Apapa Port, the House of Representatives yesterday resolved to investigate alleged extortion of truck drivers by the terminal security operatives. The House believed that the extortion was responsible […]

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, on Wednesday, told parents, guardians and teachers not to relent in teaching children moral values and principles that would help shape their future for a better society.

The mixed feelings that trailed the reintroduction of Police Affairs Ministry by President Muhammadu Buhari were not misplaced.

English Championship clubs have agreed in principle to move the summer transfer deadline to the end of August following the Premier League’s decision to change to that date. The switch will bring the 24-second tier teams into line with Premier League, League One, League Two clubs. English Football League chiefs will now start the process […]

The new coronavirus epidemic is at a “decisive point” globally, the World Health Organization said Thursday, warning it could “get out of control” if affected countries did not move swiftly to contain it. Some 2,760 people have died around the world and more than 80,000 have been infected in the outbreak, which was first detected […]

UMUAHIA- Traders at the Eziukwu Market, Aba, Abia State, numbering over 200, yesterday took to the street protesting the imposition of N18, 000 levy on them.

Opposition leader Umaro Sissoco Embalo swore himself in as the new president of Guinea-Bissau on Thursday, defying a bitter ongoing row about the outcome of elections nearly two months earlier. Embalo, who styled himself as the outsider in the election campaign, vowed to break with the decades-long domination of Guinea-Bissau’s traditional ruling party, the PAIGC. […]

……awards N60m cost against Lyon, Degi-Eremieoyo, APC By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA—The Supreme Court, on Wednesday, declined to reverse its judgement that sacked David Lyon and Degi-Eremieoyo as governor and deputy-governor elect of Bayelsa state. The apex court, in a unanimous decision by a seven-man panel of Justices headed by Justice Sylvester Ngwuta, dismissed the two […]

Through steadfastness and a multi-dimensional approach, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State is running with a vision of creating a globally competitive model learning centres in the state. He has so far given education a new momentum that has moved the state ahead from the deteriorating standard of education in the country. Nigeria’s educational sector […]

By Demola Akinyemi Aide of former Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, and his former Commissioner for Information when he was the governor in Kwara State, Comrade Ben Duntoye, on Thursday led hundreds of his teeming supporters in the opposition, Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) to join the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state. The event, […]

By James Ogunnaike ABEOKUTA – Workers recruited by the immediate past administration in Ogun State through the Administrative Staff College of Nigeria (ASCON) have begun to smile to their respective banks having received a lump sum of nine months salary arrears paid by the Prince Dapo Abiodun led administration. It would be recalled that at […]

Reacting to Emir Sanusi’s remarks,rights activist and former Senator representing Kaduna Central Zone in the 8th National Assembly, Shehu Sani has said that  the poverty and begging culture in the North were results of social injustice and systemic failure of political leaders in providing good governance.

Davies Iheamnachor – Port Harcourt The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) has arrested a blogger identified as Dikeocha Chukwuebuka for misrepresenting the Commission’s cell in a publication. The blogger had published a picture of a crowded open cell in his Twitter handle @TheRealDayne, claiming that the facility belonged to the Port Harcourt office of […]

Soni Daniel – Abuja Relentless and brutal attacks by the Nigerian military against the Boko Haram insurgents and their ally in the Islamic State in West Africa, ISWAP, have forced the terrorists to change their pattern of an indiscriminate onslaught on Nigerians and to focus on Christians and churches, Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed […]

Soni Daniel, Abuja Relentless and brutal attacks by the Nigerian military against the Boko Haram insurgents and their ally in the Islamic State in West Africa, ISWAP, have forced the terrorists to change their pattern of indiscriminate onslaught on Nigerians and to focus on Christians and churches, Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has said. […]