By Emma Una THE Cross River State governor, Senator Ben Ayade has inaugurated a three-man Land Debt Recovery Committee for the recovery of outstanding debts owed the State government by individuals and organisations for land and properties sold to them. Inaugurating the Committee in Government House Calabar Senator Ayade urged members of the committee to […]

TWENTY -five opposition political parties in the country yesterday urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to stop politicizing its anti-graft war and allowing itself to be used to intimidate some politicians within and outside the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.

Auditor General for the Federation (AGF) Aghughu Adolphus, says his office lacked adequate staff to operate, as over 500 vacancies needed to be filled due to retirement. Adolphus said this when the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the House of Representatives visited his office on oversight on Wednesday in Abuja. He said that the absence […]

President Muhammadu Buhari, Wednesday, appointed Prof. Joseph Ugboaja, as the substantive Chief Medical Director of Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, Nnewi.

Banyana Banyana head coach, Desiree Ellis has named her final 18-woman squad for the Aisha Buhari Invitational Women’s Tournament taking place in Lagos, Nigeria 15th – 21st September 2021. The team assembled at the SAFA Technical Centre (Fun Valley) on Sunday, 5th September 2021 and is expected to depart for Nigeria on Sunday, 12th September […]

The Allied Political Parties for Good Governance has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to call the leadership of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to order. Mr Raph Nwosu, National Chairman of African Democratic Congress (ADC), made the call on behalf of the parties, at a news conference on the state of the nation […]

By Precious Chukwudi At a time ‘serving breakfast’ (heartbreaks) is going viral on social media, some Nigerian celebrities are in the eye of the storm. It started with Tuface Idibia’s wife, Annie Idibia, who had put out series of posts on social media regarding her marital woes. She called out Tuface’s family for not allowing […]

The Benue state government, Wednesday said the recent media outing by the leadership of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, MAKH, is an indication that the group is in charge and dictating how the country is being governed.

By Ozioruva Aliu THE Oba of Benin, Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Ewuare II has distanced himself from a plan by some Benin sons to raise the sum of $13,000 to institute a lawsuit against an individual based in Germany who has been accused of disparaging the monarch. A statement issued on Wednesday by the […]

By Vincent Ujumadu Anambra State chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Sir Norbert Obi said Wednesday, that the leadership of the party would do everything humanly possible to unite aggrieved members before the forthcoming governorship election in the state. Speaking at the party’s state secretariat in Awka, Obi added that APGA would always emphasize […]

Ahead of Thursday’s sit-at-home in South-East states ordered by the Directorate of States, DOS, Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, in protests against the planned visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to Imo State, Onitsha and Nnewi residents were seen on Wednesday making preparations.

A 57- year-old trader, Mrs Chima Udemi, told an Igando Customary Court in Lagos on Wednesday that husband, Tobechukwu, was an unrepentant adulterer who has slept with her sister. Udemi, responding to a suit filed by Tobechukwu, who had accused her of Infidelity. “Tobechukwu is a serial womaniser, he sleeps with my younger sister and […]

Kano State Hisbah Board says it has confiscated two vehicles loaded with 5,760 cartons of assorted beer on Kano/Madobi road. This was contained in a statement issued by the Public Relations Officer of the board, Lawan Ibrahim-Fagge, in Kano on Wednesday. The statement quoted the Commander­­-General of the board, Dr Harun Ibn-Sina, as saying, while […]

By Sam Eyoboka THE umbrella body of Pentecolism in Nigeria, the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) has called on the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency in the Health and Education Sectors and immediately convoke Education and Health summits to comprehensively address the challenges facing the two critical sectors. The summits proposed by […]

“We defer to FIFA in this regard, so Ahmed Musa has 98 caps. If he features, as expected, in the home-and-away matches against the Central African Republic in October, he will clock the tally of 100 and the celebrations will follow in full flow,”