Says Okowa is committed to good governance By Festus Ahon – Asaba Special Adviser to Delta State Governor on Rural and Community Development, Mr Emma Okoro has described as distractions, statements condemning the number of appointments made by Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, insisting that the number of appointments and engagements reflect the widening scope of government […]

Boeing employees discussed the problems with the 737 Max in chats and emails that the company characterized as “completely unacceptable” in a statement released today. “Would you put your family on a Max simulator trained aircraft? I wouldn’t,” one employee said to another in one chat in February 2018, according to documents obtained by The […]

By Charly Agwam – Bauchi Bauchi State governor, Bala Mohammed has approved the suspension of two local government caretaker chairmen for alleged lackadaisical attitude to work. According to a statement issued by the Senior Special Assistant to the governor Mukhtar Gidado on Friday, the two chairmen, Nura Dan Maishar’ a  and Gara’u Adamu of Ningi […]

A months-long political stand-off in Iraq has created the conditions that allowed recent U.S. and Iranian attacks in the country, argued Iraq’s most influential Shiite cleric, Ali al-Sistani, on Friday. Last week, the U.S. killed a top Iranian commander in an airstrike in Baghdad. Iran retaliated by launching missile attacks against Iraqi military bases hosting […]

By Chinonso Alozie – Owerri The Imo State police command, on Friday, said that a suspected burglar, name Uche Akunacha, male,  41-year-old, died after he jumped from a window to escape. The police state Public Relation Officer, PPRO, Orlando Ikeokwu, confirmed this in Owerri. Just as the police gave the address of the suspect as […]

Jurgen Klopp has been named the Barclays Manager of the Month for December 2019. He wins the award for the fourth time this season after a historic end to the year with Liverpool. The leaders won all five of their Premier League matches, beating Everton, AFC Bournemouth, Watford, Leicester City, and Wolverhampton Wanderers to go […]

Shina Abubakar – Osogbo Pastor Philip Segun, Owolabi Adeeko and his mother, Bola who was alleged of killing Favour Oladele, a final year student of Lagos State University on Friday appeared before Magistrate Olukunle Idowu-Faith. The trio arrived in a white Toyota hummer bus with the inscription, Missionary at about 12:45 pm. Their plea was […]

Trent Alexander-Arnold has won the EA SPORTS Player of the Month award for December 2019. The Liverpool defender earns his first Premier League monthly award after producing a goal, three assists and three clean sheets in a flawless end to the year. “It’s a proud moment,” Alexander-Arnold said. “We’ve had a good month as a […]

By Kingsley Omonobi – Abuja Following the alleged threat by troops of the Nigerian Army fighting the insurgency war in Yobe state, to abandon their duty post due to neglect, the Nigerian Army said on Friday that the threat was fake news hatched by those it called Boko Haram and ISWAP collaborators and sympathizers. The […]

The Commissioner of Police in Kaduna State, Umar Muri, has visited the Good Shepherd Major Seminary, Kaduna where four students were abducted and assured that the police would secure their release. A statement by the command’s spokesman, Yakubu Sabo issued to newsmen on Friday said the commissioner undertook an on-the-spot assessment of the scene and […]

A 35-year-old man, James Izuchukwu, who allegedly defiled an 11-year-old girl, was on Friday brought before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State. Izuchukwu of No 23, Aronoju St., Ebute Metta, Lagos, was charged with two counts of indecent assault and defilement. He, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges levelled against him. READ […]

Twitter plans to fight internet trolls by testing a new feature that allows users to control who can reply to their posts, the company said Wednesday. The social media service will test out a temporary “reply limiting” tool that lets people choose who can join their conversation everyone, only followers, only people mentioned in the […]

Salma Hayek revealed on Wednesday that fellow actress Renée Zellweger came to the rescue when Hayek’s “big butt” caused a gown to burst at the seams before the 2003 Academy Awards. Hayek, 53, was at the National Board of Review Awards Gala in Manhattan on Wednesday when she recalled the wardrobe faux pas in 2003 […]

A Florida woman tried to urinate on a police officer while being arrested last week for a domestic violence incident and was hit with an additional charge while in custody for allegedly running over a man months ago, reports said. The woman, 20-year-old Serina Probus, was arrested at about 12:30 a.m. on Jan. 1 after […]

Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State has directed that the new minimum wage of N30,000 be paid to the state civil servants from January 2020. He also ordered the immediate verification of personnel to possibly weed out ghost workers on the payroll. The governor gave the directives when he received the report of the committee […]