…says from May 29 meat transportation violators to face sanctions By Gabriel Ewepu, Abuja AS health of consumers remain paramount, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Friday, handed over 11 meat cooling vans to Butchers and Meat Sellers Association. This was disclosed by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Muhammad Abubakar, […]

Indonesia is relocating its capital city from Jakarta to a site more than 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) away in the rainforests of Borneo Island. The project is set to launch at the end of President Joko Widodo’s term in 2024. Here’s why Southeast Asia’s largest economy is moving its administrative centre to Nusantara, a lush, […]

Residents of Sapele in Delta State are reportedly living in fear as gunmen shot dead four persons, including the legislative leader of Warri North Local Government Council, Grikpa Bigha, in the metropolis.

Fear has gripped residents of Oke Aro, Akure, the Ondo State capital, over the dumping of the burnt body of a yet-to-be-identified man, concealed in a sack in a gutter by alleged cult members.

There was pandemonium in Umuela village, Ibagwa-Aka community in Igbo-Eze South Local Government Area of Enugu State, yesterday, as a middle-aged man (name withheld) alleged to have used fetish means to kill five of his brothers was banished for life by the community.

Mexican security forces on Thursday captured a son of jailed drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, scoring a high-profile win in the fight against powerful cartels days before US President Joe Biden visits. Ovidio Guzman, nicknamed “El Raton” (The Mouse), was caught in the northwestern city of Culiacan and flown to Mexico City on a […]

Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, yesterday, flagged off his re-election campaign in Imeko-Afon Local Government Area of the state, with a promise not to relent on his developmental strides. Governor Abiodun, who is seeking a second term in office on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), was accompanied on the campaign tour […]

By Owei Lakemfa THE  youthful Father Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, later, Pope Benedict XVI, was a brilliant theologian and academic who, at age 31 in 1958, was already a full professor at Bonn University. But before turning to the priesthood, he had been a POW in the Second World War. It was a war in which humanity […]

•Awaiting trial for cultism since 2013 •Loses pregnant wife By Henry Ojelu Thirty-five-year-old Samuel Shittu, is a native of  Igboora in Ibarapa Central Local Government Area of Oyo State. In 2013, the herbal medicine practitioner was arrested by the Police along with others over allegation of cultism.  He was severely tortured and dumped in the […]

AGAINST expectations that the G-5 governors, will announce their preferred presidential candidate in Ibadan, Governor Nyesom Wike of River State, yesterday, disclosed that members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Oyo State, will be told who to vote for in the presidential election soon.