Worried by the threat of violence in Bayelsa State ahead of November 11 governorship election, a coalition of Ijaw interest groups has condemned the spate of politically motivated killings in certain parts of the state and urged all parties concerned to eschew violence and maintain peace during and after the poll.

The newly inaugurated Ganfen Lithium Industry Limited Nigeria, a Chinese company operating in Nasarawa State, yesterday raised an alarm over its impersonation, which it claimed was threatening its corporate existence in the country.

Former governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has said African leaders must ensure Africans were not made casualties in the crisis currently affecting the globe.

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory FCT, Nyesom Wike, has extended the ‘develop or revoke’ order issued religious bodies in the territory, saying they would be granted additional time instead of the earlier three-month blanket notice handed all institutions.

THE Federal Government yesterday lamented that Nigerians no longer believe the leaders they elect, and stressed the need to reintroduce national discourse on reorientation.

PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has approved commencement of academic activities in six of the 14 new universities established in the last days of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.

Troops of the Nigerian Army (NA) have killed three terrorists in an ambush operation at Birnin Gwari with many other terrorists escaping in disarray, some with gunshot wounds.

THE embers of discord fanned by a perennial communal clash within some communities in Irepodun and Orolu local government areas of Osun State over land seem to have rekindled.
The unending land dispute has led to the destruction of lives and property in an unimaginable proportion.

The Senate yesterday confirmed Ola Olukoyede as the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

Except a miracle happens and fast too, comic actor, Mr. John Okafor, popularly called Mr. Ibu, may lose one of his legs to an ailment that has left him bedridden for weeks.

By Ndahi Marama Maiduguri—A daughter of a member of the Borno State House of Assembly, representing Ngala Local Government Area, LGA, Bukar Abacha, has been strangulated by an unknown person around Gidan Dembe in Maiduguri. This came less than 24 hours after Governor Babagana Zulum ordred demolition of brothels, shanties and drinking joints at the […]

Motorists, residents, business operators and commuters on Lekki-Epe expressway, yesterday, said they are going through harrowing experiences and excruciating pain due to the on-going reconstruction of the 49.5-kilometre expressway.

By Demola Akinyemi The academic community of University of Ilorin, in Kwara State, has been thrown into mourning over the suicide of one of its students, Hameedat Sanni, yesterday morning, after falling victim to a scammer. The late Hameedat, who resided in Rubik, a private hostel within the University environment, was said to have lent […]

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA—Trial Justice, Idris Kutigi, of a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, sitting at Jabi, yesterday, slammed the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over its tardy prosecution of defendants involved in alleged $1.1 billion Malabu oil fraud. Among those on trial over the alleged fraud is a former Attorney-General of […]

Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, in Jigawa State Command, has arrested a 56-year-old man, Saleh Idris, for allegedly raping and impregnating a 14-year-old girl and house help in Unguwar Mani Quarters, Roni Local Government, Jigawa State. The command’s spokesperson, CSC Adamu Shehu, said the suspect, Idris, was arrested, following a […]