A Non-Governmental Organisation, NGO, Daughters of Philip (D.O.P), and stakeholders have stressed the need for parents and guardians to wake up to their responsibility towards protecting the girl child.

By Peter Duru – Makurdi The Middle Belt Movement for Justice and Peace, MBMJP, has said that the recent media attack launched on Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state by the Presidency was counterproductive as it further pitched Nigerians against the federal government. The group advised the federal government to earnestly address the issues raised […]

By Peter Duru – Makurdi Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state, weekend said the legal team of the People Democratic Party, PDP, is working round the clock to resolve the legal issues that generated the injunctions and counter injunctions by members saying such disputes are similar to the disagreements between the tongue and the teeth […]

The Imo State Police Command on Friday said scores of suspected Eastern Security Network, ESN, an armed group of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, were killed in a bloody clash at the ESN, camp at Akata in Oru East Local Government Area of Imo State.

By Joseph Erunke – Abuja FOLLOWING the Seasonal Climate Prediction for 2021 by the Nigeria Meteorological Agency, NiMet,the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA,has said it would activate emergency operations centres for search and rescue and needs assessment as the need arises. This was as NEMA tasked ministries, departments and agencies to come together with plan […]

By Innocent Anaba & Onozure Dania President Muhammadu Buhari, recently reconstituted a committee to review 368 grazing sites across 25 states in the country to determine their level of encroachment. This came despite the fact that all the Southern states, including Benue and a few others are opposed to open grazing, but prefer private ranching. […]

By Adeola Badru No fewer than sixty beneficiaries, Friday, went to their various homes with a big smile on their faces after graduating from the first Total Parental Guidance Orphanage Free Skills Acquisition Training programme, tagged: “Skills for Life,” in Ibadan. The beneficiaries, who are predominately orphans and youths, received their certificates at an elaborate […]

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday directed the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, Mohammed Babandede to ensure that the nation’s borders and the economy are protected against foreign invaders. This is as the federal government has expressed concern over Chinese who venture into retail businesses in Nigerian markets, saying that […]

By Modupe Ogunji The Taraba state Governor, Darius Ishaku has said his state is the major producer of rice in Nigeria. The governor who stated this in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the creation of Taraba, said his administration is credited with outstanding credentials in agricultural development through its farmers support programmes. He said; […]

About 64 trapped students of Lagos residents studying in University of Jos, Plateau State, who arrived Lagos from Jos, on Friday, following recent killings in the state, have lamented that they were still traumatized by the massacre experienced.