By Samuel Oyadongha & Emem Idio, YENOGOA Two persons  including a suspected drug peddler were, yesterday, killed and many others injured in renewed cult war in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital between members of the Bobos and Iceland cult groups. It was learned that the killings, which started in the early hours of the day […]

Information and Communications Technology, ICT sector contributed 15.21 per cent to the total real GDP, as the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS rounded its quarterly GDP report for Q4, 2021

Two suspects have been arrested by police operatives over attacks on Okomu Oil Palm Company, Edo State. It was gathered that the recent attack on the company’s plantation followed similar attack February 1, 2022, which resulted to 90 hectares of the company’s rubber plantation and three excavators burnt by the assailants. The workers were not […]

“So we see the good, the bad and the ugly. Sometimes we pick native doctors’ concoction too”

As a labour activist, I read with utmost dismay the press statement issued by the President of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, Sunday Asefon, in which he blamed the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige for the current four-week warning strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU

The Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) has called on the National Assembly’s Committee on the review of the 1999 Constitution to reinstate the clause on the ‘right to food’. The clause was reportedly deleted in the Constitution’s amendment Bill pending before the two chambers of the National Assembly. HOMEF made the call in a […]

A civil rights group, Concerned Nigerians has tasked the People Democratic Party (PDP) to wake up and play the crucial opposition role of questioning and holding the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government accountable on the several anti-people policies emanating from the government of the day. The group which made the call in an open letter, titled […]

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said on Monday, that the microblogging site, Twitter, is expected to open its Nigerian office before the end of March 2022

“There are corpses there. If you have a television in the office, you can remove it when you are leaving, same as table. But the corpses that are there, you cannot remove them. So, the corpses were kept there because the mortuary is functioning but when the hospital closed down, the mortuary section could not immediately close down.

MTV Base today announced Nigeria’s number one candy brand, TomTom, as the official sponsor of the new season of MTV BASE CYPHER which premieres on Sunday, 27 February 2022, at 19:00 WAT.

The All Progressives Congress Party leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has lauded the role of traditional rulers in our society.

FG approves appointment of Dr Salisu Umar as the substantive Rector for the Auchi Polytechnic

The suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, who is currently in the custody of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, over his alleged involvement in drug trafficking, has been denied application of bail on health grounds

“Not many family businesses succeed”

By Chioma Obinna One major aim of  Family Planning 2020  partners is to end the unmet needs for family planning,  by 2030, however,  the COVID-19 pandemic has stalled progress towards the achievement of the global goal. The reasons may not be unconnected with gaps in the country’s health system including the fact that family planning […]