The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Mrs Pauline Tallen, has urged Nigerians to love, tolerate and live peacefully with one another.

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has commended troops of Operation Lafiya Dole (OPLD) for their recent feat in the ongoing counter insurgency operations in the north east.

ABUJA- The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday expressed worry by federal government’s delay in arresting the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Adams Oshiomhole, for allegedly “inciting the attack on Justice Mary Odili over the Supreme Court’s Judgment on the Bayelsa state governorship election.”

Taraba state government has said the state governor Darius Ishaku has committed no impeachable offence despite being absent from the state for over 2 months. 

By Funmi Ajumobi Pastor Folu Adeboye has said that leaders face the dangers of losing the call of God upon their lives if such leaders are not watchful. She made this remark in her welcome address at the annual programme for female general overseers, wives of general overseers and female heads of ministry tagged, ‘Feast […]

By Michael Eboh & Jennifer Gideon Young Progressives Party, YPP, yesterday, petitioned the National Assembly (NASS) over what it described as the rising poverty in the country, widespread insecurity and political uncertainty. In a letter to the leadership of the National Assembly, the YPP called for urgent reform of the country’s electoral laws, restructuring of […]

Rights activist, Chief Rita Lori-Ogbebor, has lost her husband, Col Paul Ogbebor, retd, after a brief illness. The deceased who was a civil war hero, died in Benin City, Edo State, at the age of 80. The late Col Ogbebor was a chieftain of Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF.

In Nigeria, it is without a doubt that the common man suffers a lot of plights, and the general well-being of the society is not very healthy.

The Delta Government says it is planning to establish 20 computerised Vehicle Inspection Centres to enhance safety of motorists and upgrade of Vehicle Inspection Officers (VIO)’s oral test to Computer Based test.

A coalition of 18 political parties under the auspices of Coalition of Progressive Political Parties (COP3) has urged recently deregistered political parties in the country to look beyond the deregistration, but and work together to change the nature of politics in Nigeria, away from the usual norm of seeking political office for personal gains.

ABUJA — PRESIDENT of the Senate, Senator  Ahmad Lawan, yesterday told the Finland government that Nigeria was going through serious security challenges including kidnapping, armed banditry that require the application of technology to overcome.
Lawan who spoke in Abuja when the Ambassador of Finland in Nigeria, Dr.Jyrki Pulkkinen, paid him a courtesy visit in his office, said, “As you know, Nigeria is battling with so many issues of insecurity. We have the insurgency, banditry, kidnapping and many other things.

Following recent heavy victories and bloody nose inflicted on several Boko Haram and ISWAP hideouts and bases as well as the neutralization of many of their Commanders, the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen Tukur Yusuf Buratai has  declared that defeating the terrorists finally, and ending Boko Haram menace is just a matter of days away.

BENIN CITY—  No fewer than 10 persons were, yesterday, killed in Benin City, Edo State, as rival cult groups, Aye and Eiye confraternities, engaged in reprisal attacks.

English has become the language of the home among many Nigerians. It is even a taboo in some homes to speak an indigenous language. In the end, we have hybrids who neither speak their indigenous languages with pride nor speak the borrowed language with finesse.

Abuja—The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has described as troubling federal government’s rehabilitation of Boko Haram suspects.