Following abductions at the Leprosy Training Centre in Zaria on Sunday and that of students of Bethel Baptist High School, Kaduna on Monday, Speaker, Kaduna State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Yusuf Ibrahim Zailani has condemned the acts and commiserated with families of victims.

Police in Lagos State, on Monday, foiled preliminary violence in Mile 12 and Owode-Elede area of the state.

The southern Governors’Forum, SGF, on Monday, insisted that any law enforcement agency carrying out an operation in any of the states in the South must take permission from the state governor, who is the chief security officer of the state just as it insisted the next President of the country should emerge from the South.

President of the country, the southern states governors have agreed, must be from the South. This was part of the decisions reached at the meeting of the southern states governors today (Monday) in Lagos.

The Kano State Governor Abdullahi Ganduje has been hailed for remaining consistent with the National Leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC) despite challenges faced by the party all through.

Atokeibeirosi is a rich Ekiti word and an epithet with a very deep meaning. In Ekiti dialect, the word is pronounced as r m d r d r m m “a to oke ibe i ro si”.

By Pakribo Telema-Daregoe It is not a common happenstance for me to write a tribute in honour of somebody. I am usually compelled to do so when I am fully involved either by consanguinity or a long-standing friendship. In my travail in life, fate has been fair to me to some extent, I have encountered […]

Four suspected members of the Eastern Security Network, ESN, of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, yesterday were paraded while planning to plant explosives in a military checkpoint along Owerri/Orlu road in Imo State.

By Jimitota Onoyume Warri: Delta South senatorial district of the All Progressives Congress, APC , has described as unfair a newspaper publication with the heading :Urhobo Ethnic Nationality in Delta South disowns communique published by Dr Alex and others of the APC Delta south senatorial district. The party in a statement made available to the […]

By Femi Bolaji – Jalingo The Chief of Tiv in Bali local government area of Taraba state, Zaki David Gbaa, has said his subjects who some two months back were displaced by herdsmen have all returned to their homes. The monarch spoke during the swearing-in ceremony of supervisory Councillors in the local government area. He […]

The European Union (EU) has criticised Russia’s plans to allow only Russian producers of sparkling wine call their product champagne. A European Commission representative, on Monday said Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a new law on Friday, which stipulates that non-Russian champagne producers must label their products as “sparkling wine” in the Russian market. The […]

By Dirisu Yakubu, Abuja The Federal Government, Monday, commenced training for selected officers of Grade Level 08-14 ahead of their conversion to the planning cadre of the federal civil service. The training which is expected to last for two weeks at the Public Service Institute of Nigeria, PSIN, Kubwa-Abuja, commenced with a total number of […]

By Shina Abubakar – Osogbo Osun state police command on Monday arraigned two persons, Idowu Salami and Opeyemi Popoola before an Osogbo Magistrates Court, for allegedly beating an ASP, Adeleke Adewale, inside a police station in the state capital. The defendants also allegedly stole four singlets valued N1200 belonging to one Francis Ezekwere. They were […]

FORMER Federal Commissioner for Information and the leader of the Pan-Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, Chief Edwin Clark, on Monday, described the newly-passed Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, ready for harmonisation as satanic, unjust, embarrassing.

The Court of Appeal in Abuja, Monday, rejected the two applications of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for injunction to stop enforcement and effect of the judgment of Justice A. O. Adeniyi of the FCT High Court, which authorised Anambra State PDP congress held at St Paul University Awka.