By Kingsley Omonobi The Afenmai Patriotic Development  Association (APDA), a Socio-Political group of all Afenmai people Worldwide has condemned in very strong terms, the kidnap and subsequent gruesome murder of High Chief Dennis Abuda,  an American-based Afenmai son who came home to Nigeria during the festive season to celebrate with his family and friends. Consequently, […]

By Ugochukwu Alaribe The Anglican Church community was Tuesday thrown into mourning when one of her priests, wife and a house help died under strange circumstances in Aba, Abia State. Julius Dike who is the Archdeacon of St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Ariaria, Aba, and wife, Agnes, and their house help, reportedly held a crusade within […]

With donations flocking in and around the country due to the prevailing Corona Virus pandemic, hope seems to be on the way as various Non Governmental Organizations have taken the bull by the horn in ensuring that the less privileged and downtrodden are not left to themselves. One of such is the Blessed Hope Foundation. […]

Delta Governor, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa on Tuesday described the death of the Majority Leader of the Delta State House of Assembly, Mr Tim Owhefere, as shocking and devastating.

The Co-Chair of Ehingeti 2021, the Lagos Economic Summit, holding from February 16 to 18, 2021, Mr. Yemi Cardoso has said the summit will bring about a good policy environment and attract investment to the state. He noted that excellent coordination of private-public relationship can signal stability to investors. Speaking during an interactive session with […]

By Jimitota Onoyume Very Rev Father Patrick Eyayomo , Chaplain of Seat of Wisdom Catholic Chaplaincy , Petroleum Training institute, PTI, in Uvwie local government area, Delta State,  is dead. The 72 year old was among old Priest in the Catholic diocese of Warri, Delta State. READ ALSO: Fayemi felicitates Kukah on appointment into Pope’s […]

  By Joseph Erunke   ABUJA-THE Executive Director, Centre for Space Science and Technology Education,CSSTE, Dr. Ganiyu Agbaje,Tuesday, said Nigeria has improved on its possession of requisite equipments to better forecast flood, thereby mitigating the effects. To this end,he expressed optimism that the negative socioeconomic impacts of flooding in the country would henceforth be mitigated through effective and […]

BY GABRIEL ENOGHOLASE EDO State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has assured that bandits who disguise as herders to perpetuate violence, kidnapping and robbery will be treated as criminals, as the state firms up its security architecture to flush out criminals from its domain. The governor disclosed this during yesterday at a town hall meeting at […]

Indications have emerged that Lagos State may be losing as much as N4 trillion annually to traffic congestion that has become the hallmark of the state. This is contained in a report by a Lagos-based research institute, Danne Institute for Research entitled “Connectivity and Productivity Report”.

Agge Federated Communities of the Kou Kingdom in Bayelsa and Delta states, have warned the management of Sterling Oil Exploration & Energy Production Company Limited, SEEPCO, that they would not be intimidated by the delay tactics of the company to evade full implementation of the Global Memorandum of Understandin (GMoU) it entered with them on […]

  By Chioma Obinna LAST weekend, the World Health Organisation, WHO denied the purported media report of the disqualification of Nigeria from the vaccine through the Pfizer-BioNTech COVAX facility. Nigeria will now benefit from the 16 million doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine allocation. However, criticism trails Nigeria’s exclusion as the 100,000 doses of Pfizer vaccines expected […]

By Vincent Ujumadu A GOVERNORSHIP aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the November 6, 2021, election in Anambra State, Dr. Obiora Okonkwo said today that the party would soon expose those masquerading as governorship aspirants of PDP, when they were in fact, working for other political parties. Speaking in an […]

Mr Job Akintan, a former lawmaker in Ogun, has appealed to Gov. Dapo Abiodun to implement recommendations of the state 5th Assembly on crisis between farmers and herders in the state. Akintan, a former Minority Leader in the Ogun House of Assembly, made the appeal in a statement in Abeokuta on Tuesday. He said that the implementation […]

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday appealed to Nigerians to resist any attempt to destroy the unity that the citizens had lived and worked together for.   Osinbajo made the appeal during the revalidation of his membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC), at ward 1, Unit 3, Egunrege, Ikenne, in Ikenne Local Government Area of […]

…Unions kick against cut in wages By Obas Esiedesa The Federal Government has set a target of $10 or less per barrel production cost for Nigeria’s oil industry. The Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, who spoke on Tuesday at the launch of the Nigerian Upstream Cost Optimisation Programme, NUCOP, said it has become […]