Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has called on older politicians to step aside but work closely with younger leaders in powerful positions to fashion ways to tackle Nigeria’s insecurity.

By Chimaobi Nwaiwu, Chinonso Alozie  & Steve Oko NNEWI—THE Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, yesterday, accused South East governors of benefiting from continued closure  of markets and banks in the southeast on the pretext of observing fake sit-at-home allegedly ordered and being implemented by miscreants, who want to tarnish IPOBs name and paint a bad […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, will on Tuesday, arraign a former Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, before the Federal High Court in Abuja over his alleged complicity in a N2.9billion fraud.

IBADAN — Oyo State Commissioner for Works, Public Infrastructure and Transport, Prof. Daud Sangodoyin, declared yesterday that the government of Governor Seyi Makinde was determined to deliver quality infrastructure projects that will stand the test of time. Sangodoyin stated this when he embarked on an inspection tour of Ajia-Airport Road with spur to Amuloko with […]

By Onozure Dania Lagos—Former President of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, has predicted that there will be credible elections come 2023, adding that elections will come and go but Nigeria will still remain. He said this, yesterday, during the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, Council of the Wise, COW, two-day strategic retreat and planning […]

By Ozioruva Aliu BENIN CITY— THE wife of founder of the Church of God Mission International, Archbishop Margaret Benson-Idahosa, has said the training her late husband, Archbishop Benson Idahosa, bequeathed to her family while he was alive is what has helped them to sustain and build on his legacies since he died about 24 years […]

By Emma Amaize SOUTH-SOUTH leader and elder statesman, Senator Edwin Clark, has questioned the position of Asagba of Asaba, HRM Obi (Prof) Chike Edozien, and other monarchs of Delta North senatorial district (Anioma) in Delta State that the Delta Central senatorial district (Urhobo) should produce the next governor of the state in 2023. Senator Clark, […]

By Musa Ubandawaki SOKOTO—The National Association of Nigeria Students, NANS, has issued a one week ultimatum to the Federal Government to resolve its disagreement with the Academic Staff Union of University, ASUU, or face a nationwide mass action by all Nigerian students. NANS was in Sokoto for its constitutional review conference where the association reviewed […]

The Forum of members of State Houses of Assembly in the South-South zone of the country, under the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress, has endorsed the Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, for Presidency in 2023. Rising from its extraordinary meeting at Monty Suites, Zone 6, Calabar, capital of Cross River, yesterday, […]

By Wole Mosadomi Minna—The insecurity ravaging Niger State yesterday took a new dimension as terrorists planted and detonated explosives at strategic locations in some villages in Shiroro Local Government killing no fewer than 14 persons including some personnel of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC. It was also gathered that unspecific number of […]