THE Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, Monday said there are no ongoing talks with the Federal Government on the 16-Point agenda is presented to the presidency in 2016 during the height of militant attacks in the Niger Delta region noting that the talks with the presidency have gone from “monologue to no Logue.”

The Northern Youths Assembly (NYA) has advised the Zamfara Government to shelve its proposed N7 billion Government House project in the best interest of the people. This is contained in a statement signed by Mr Mannir Haidara the state’s NYA Chairman in Gusau on Monday. The Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Bala Bello had […]

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), says there will be no increase in electricity tariff without consultations. Prof. James Momoh, the Chairman of NERC said this at a news conference in Abuja on Monday. According to him, what the commission has done is a tariff review which is usually done twice a year. News Agency […]

The Federal Controller of Works in Lagos, Mr Adedamola Kuti, on Monday, said that contractors had returned to all the construction sites in the state after yuletide. Consequently, he said that that construction work had resumed on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway and that traffic diversion for work to continue on the Kara bridge section would begin […]

…400,000 may be affected By Adesina Wahab Unqualified teachers in public and private primary and secondary schools in the country may from this month begin to bid their jobs farewell, as the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria, TRCN starts the process of weeding them out of the system. The Registrar, TRCN, Prof. Josiah Ajiboye, disclosed […]

Dennis Agbo – Abakaliki The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has dismissed reports that Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, is plotting a move to the  All Progressives Congress (APC) as mischievous and self-serving. The governor had reportedly told some media organizations that he belongs to both parties. But the Chairman of PDP in Ebonyi State,Mr. Onyekachi […]

By David Odama – Lafia Organised Labour in Nasarawa state on Monday threatened to boycott the inauguration of a committee set up for the new minimum wage unless pending arrears of promotion, salaries and pension owed workers in the state were cleared. This is even as the inauguration of the MinimumWage committee slated for January […]

By Peter Egwuatu Investors gained over N179.1 billion as the equities market on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE consolidated its bullish run at the beginning of trading on Monday as All Share Index, ASI surged by 1.4 per cent to close at 27,339.68 points. The positive market was buoyed by buying interest in highly capitalised […]

By Onozure Dania – Lagos A tricycle operator Nweke Jacob who allegedly burgled a house and stole seven bags of rice and other items worth N5,755,400, was yesterday arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrate Court. Jacob 28, a resident of 26, Lekki, Scheme ii, Ajah, Lagos, is facing a four-count charge of conspiracy, breaking and entering, […]

By Harris Emanuel – Uyo No fewer 2,500 victims of the fire incident which gutted Iwoukpom, a riverside community in Ibeno Council of Akwa Ibom State at the weekend have continued to count their losses which they put at several millions of naira. It would be recalled that at least 4,000 houses were affected by […]

A key figure in the civil unrest that gripped the Ivory Coast at the start of the century, Issiaka Ouattara, died in a New York hospital on Monday. He was 53. “He died from illness this morning in a New York hospital,” where he had been admitted several weeks ago, Affoussiata Bamba-Lamine, an attorney linked […]

A 55-year-old trader, Anderson Umeh, who allegedly defrauded a man, Mr Isiah Inaremien of N400,000 under false pretences of getting customs’ paper for his car,  on Monday appeared before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court. The man, who resides at No. 1b, Kolex Road, Surulere, Lagos, was in court charged with obtaining by false pretences and […]

Vincent Ujumadu – Awka An 11-year-old student, Chigozie Anyichie, has been killed in a fire outbreak at the Patterson Memorial Grammar School, Awada, Onitsha, Anambra State. The spokesman of the state police command, Mohammed Haruna, who confirmed the incident, said the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. John Abang, has commiserated with the family of the […]

A 25-year-old Uber driver, Shuaibu Babatunde, who allegedly absconded with his employer’s Toyota Corolla, valued at N2 million on Monday appeared in a Yaba Magistrates’ Court in Lagos. The police charged Babatunde, who resides in Ikorodu area, near Lagos, is charged with theft. He, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge. The Prosecution Counsel, Sgt. […]

Defending champions of the Nigerian Professional Football League (NPFL), Enyimba, on Monday sacked head coach, Usman Abdallah.