A police officer and four oil workers were reportedly killed in an ambush by suspected gunmen in Assa community in Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State, while an unspecified number of persons sustained gunshot injuries.

TWO persons were feared dead, while several others were injured in a fuel tanker accident at the International Building Materials Market, Ogidi in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State Sunday night.

The Federal Government’s fiscal operations in 2022 is set for contraction, despite higher oil earnings and earnings from increased exchange rate.

By Providence Adeyinka The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, ICAN, has canvassed application of unconventional models in addressing Nigeria’s economic challenges. Speaking at the ICAN 2021 Mid-Year Economic Discourse with the theme: “X-Raying The Nigerian Economy: Problem And Prospects”, ICAN President, Mrs Comfort Olu Eyitayo, listed the challenges requiring such model. READ ALSO:Court remands […]

Despite the suspension of the Monday sit-at-home  announced by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, business activities were yesterday grounded across major cities in southeast geo-politicial zone.

 By Cynthia Alo The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) have issued 2021 Merger Review (Amended) Regulations, to govern the notification and review of mergers under Part XII of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Act (FCCPA). In a statement yesterday the Chief Executive Officer of the Commission, Mr. Babatunde Irukera, explains that the […]

Former Deputy Senate President, Ibrahim Mantu, is dead. He died in the early hours of Tuesday. Mantu represented Plateau Central in his days at the red chambers. Vanguard News Nigeria

By Tayo Ogunbiyi THE recently concluded local government election in Lagos State has once again brought to the fore the issue of voters’ apathy in the country. According to reports, voters turn out during the last Lagos Council poll wasn’t in any way encouraging.  For instance, reports had it that not up to 18 per […]

…Lalong meets head of security agencies as hoodlums kill 7 in Jos …Angry youths barricade Katsina highways, protest killing of 2 by bandits …IGP deploys surveillance helicopter over Plateau killings …13 more suspects arrested lNLC says Nigerians living in dangerous times By Victor Ahiuma-Young, Kingsley Omonobi, Bashir Bello & Marie-Therese Nanlong Gunmen suspected to be […]

THE situation in our country is likened to the cock that perches on the rope. The Yorubas say that neither the bird nor the rope will know peace.

READING through the newspapers and social media in the past two weeks, I found myself thinking how nothing much seems to have changed in the conduct of the affairs of the political class and no lessons learnt from past occurrences.

Former Head of State, President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, has said he was involved in the fiercest battle in Enugu during the civil war of 1967 before the city was captured. 

By Eric Teniola GENERAL Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida will be 80 today, August 17. He is the second longest military ruler in Nigeria, the first being General Yakubu Gowon who ruled Nigeria from August 1, 1966 to July 29,1975. General Babangida ruled Nigeria from August 27,1985-August 26, 1993. His classmates at Government College Bida were General […]

Outrage yesterday trailed President Muhammadu Buhari’s signing into law of the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB.

Gov David Umahi of Ebonyi has warned that workers who are absent from work due to the sit-at-home order by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), would lose their jobs