By Chioma Obinna ILORIN — A middle-aged man, Olumiyiwa Akintayo, was yesterday  in Ilorin, Kwara State apprehended by officials of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC,  for allegedly distributing fake drugs to unsuspecting members of the public. The Kwara State Unit Head of the Agency, Mrs. Phebean Odu, who disclosed […]

ILORIN — Governor Bukola Saraki of Kwara State has re-assured the International Community that no stone would be left unturned to sustain Nigeria’s nascent democracy even as he called for bilateral economic relations between Kwara State and France. Receiving the France Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Jean Michel Dumond, at the Government House, Ilorin, Governor Saraki […]

By Chidi Nkwopara OWERRI—Imo State Government has raised an alarm over the rising spate of kidnapping and other violent crimes in the state. It also described as ridiculous and diversionary, allegations by the opposition that some government officials were involved in the gory deeds. Secretary to Government of Imo State, Chief Cosmas Iwu, who raised […]

By Dennis Agbo ABAKALIKI—PARTICIPANTS at the recently concluded South East national workshop on compendium of localities of the National Population Commission, NPC, in Abakaliki Ebonyi State, have decried the marginalization of the zone in past  population census result in the country. The participants lamented that most of the localities in the zone were not counted […]

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Delta State, Mr. Andrew Aganbi, has challenged the G3 political group, comprising the Ijaw, Itsekiri and Isoko, to rouse itself from sleep and finish what it started some years ago by supporting Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan for Governor in 2011. Mr. Aganbi made this wake-up-call in a […]