Civil society organisation, the Niger Delta Peoples Forum has condemned the reported surreptitious meeting between the NDDC Sole Administrator, Effiong Akwa, with a joint session of the National Assembly committees on Niger Delta Affairs. According to the National Chairman, Boma Ebiakpo, “this was apparently to attempt to embark upon another cycle of illegality preparatory to consider an […]

By Azu Ishiekwene THE Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, would like to close the case of the suspicious death of Sylvester Omoroni Jr., and simply move on to something else. He’s surprised there’s pushback and can’t understand why. Odumosu said the state Director of Public Prosecutions, DPP, had advised that the evidence provided […]

DIRECTOR General of the Progressive Governors’ Forum PGF, Salihu Moh. Lukman has again slammed the Gov. Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee CECPC of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC for making excuses as to why it cannot conduct its national convention as scheduled until certain conditions are met.

As primary and secondary schools across the country are resuming for the second term of the 2021/2022 academic session, parents and guardians of students in private schools are now at the mercy of school owners who expect them to clear bills for many spurious items, including development and entrepreneurship levies, without materials or tools for practicals.

As part of giving back to his community; Hon. Tokunbo Toriola have honored 11 participants at the just concluded grand finale of the Idere-Update annual Inter-comunity debate competition held at the Femadex Royal Gardens and Hotel, Idere. Toriola who was a special guest at the event awarded undisclosed cash gift to the 11 out of […]

By Dapo Akinrefon Mrs Gladys Ndubuisi, widow of the late Rear Admiral Ndubuisi, on Friday, said that one Kelly Kanu, parading himself as the head of the Kanu family is not the head of the family. The family on Thursday, held a one year rememberance in honour of the former military administrator of Imo and […]

By Adekunle Adekoya When the news broke last Monday that APC  National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu disclosed to Nigerians that he had been in the Presidential Villa, Abuja, to inform President Muhammadu Buhari of his intention to contest for the nation’s top job next year, my mind was at once settled and in turmoil over […]

By Henry Ojelu As a young boy, Hilary Okorie from Abia State admired the police and dreamt of becoming a police officer. With no one to guide him on the path to achieving his dream, Okorie settled for a job as a clerical officer with his ordinary level certificate at the National Directorate of Employment. While […]

Godwin Emefiele, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, says the pan-African payment and settlement system, PAPSS, will simplify cross-border transactions and reduce third currencies for intra-African trade.

MILLIONS of naira have been lost to the strike action embarked upon by commercial tricycle riders in Kano State who are protesting excessive extortion by the Kano State Roads Transport Agency, KAROTA.

IT was a moment of relief for no fewer than 50 Christian and Muslim widows as a Jos-based non-governmental agency, Paradise for Widows and Teenagers, showered them with foodstuffs in order to ameliorate their plight.

The Bursar and Lecturer of Cambridge College Ikeja, Nigeria has been honoured with a Golden Award as “the most Notable and Top Distinguished Education Stakeholder of the 21st Century” by the International Chartered World Learned Society, a United States-based organization, with offices in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Oceania.

THE Yuletide season is over as all official activities have returned to their normal schedules, and schools across Abuja, the nation’s capital, resumed this week.

FOR about 46 years, the people of Ojoma, Allan Council Ward of Otukpo Local Government Area of Benue lived with the challenge of accessing neighbouring communities and moving their farm produce to such markets due to lack of a bridge across the stream that runs through the village.

THE Plateau State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC, are at each other’s throats over plans by Governor Simon Lalong to spend N18 billion on British-American flyover. The PDP, which is contending that government should tackle insecurity in the state, alleged that the project was a ploy for siphoning state resources.