The testimony of an essential witness in the case of an alleged forged travellers cheque filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission against one Mark Obisesan, has swung the momentum in favor of the accused.

Immediate past governor of Cross River state, Sen. Liyel Imoke, has described the death of former military administrator of River state and ex Minister of Information and Culture, Brigadier General Anthony Ukpo (retd) as shocking and unbelievable.

…Inaugurates 360 personnel in OsunShina Abubakar, Osogbo Osun State Governor, Mr Adegboyega Oyetola has urged the newly-recruited officers into the State Security Network Agency, Amotekun in the state to collaborate with their colleagues in southwest to protect the region against criminality The Governor who spoke at the official inauguration of the corps after three weeks […]

While it has long been suspected by Nigerians that court judgements are often given in favour of the highest bidder, a series of embarrassing judgements by courts with concurrent jurisdictions over the tenure of the chairmanship of People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Uche Secondus has woken up from slumber, the National Judicial Council, NJC which is the apex regulatory authority over the judiciary in Nigeria. But the NJC is only stepping up after what seems like an irreparable damage to the reputation of the judiciary in Nigeria, had been done.

Gridlock has persisted on the Oshodi-Apapa expressway, at the Mile-2-Oke axis, as the Head of the Lagos State Task Force, Toyin Fayinka, tasked with clearing the road, has ignored the commuters’ suffering.

By Luminous Jannamike Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar, President of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Rev. Samson Ayokunle, and the UN Deputy Secretary General, Mrs Amina Mohammed have said violence against women and girls must stop in Nigeria for the country to make progress. The leaders spoke at […]

Nigerian Railway Corporation generated N1.08 billion revenue from passengers in the second quarter of the year (Q2’21`). This represents a 237 percent year-on year (YoY) rise in revenue when compared with N320.3 million generated in Q2’20.

The Director-General, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, Professor Mojisola Adeyeye has attributed increasing rate of kidney diseases and cancer in the country to irresponsible use of drugs and chemicals among residents.

Transactions across major electronic payment channels recorded declines in the month of August 2021, though mobile inter-scheme, cheque transactions, Automated Direct Debit (ADD) and Central Pay channels recorded increases.

Disturbed by the rising wave of insecurity, Governor Akeredolu lamented yesterday that  Nigerians were  living in fear, following the unending insecurity across the country, and called on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately rise to the occasion.

Minster of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, yesterday, said that contrary to the alleged  propaganda by the striking members of the National Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, no doctor or health worker in Nigeria was being owed monthly salary.

I can’t argue less that His Excellency, Governor Seyi Makinde modus operandi in governance is an elegant peacock that stood out among other states’ gate-keepers.

Imo State government through its agency, Owerri Capital Development Authority, OCDA, has sealed almost all the banks in Owerri, the state capital.

Acute scarcity of the Premium Motor Spirit, commonly called petrol, has hit Umuahia and Aba, the commercial nerve centre of Abia. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the development has resulted in a sharp increase in the price of the commodity in service stations belonging to independent marketers. NAN correspondents, who monitored the […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will use its zonal headquarters office in Owerri to distribute non-sensitive materials for Anambra governorship election. The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this during the commission’s quarterly meeting with media executives in Abuja, on Wednesday. Yakubu said the decision was a result of recent vandalism and […]