Fred Agbedi is the lawmaker representing Sagbama/Ekeremor Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives. He is a ranking member of the House

By Samuel Oyadongha TEIN BISENI—Five months after a crude oil spill polluted Tein in Biseni Kingdom, Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, fire has finished what the pipeline began, leaving the environment scorched and lake dead. When field monitors led by Comrade Alagoa Morris returned to the creeks of Tein community, weekend, the first […]

The Federal Government on Monday re-arraigned Tukur Mamu, the alleged terrorists’ negotiator during the Abuja-Kaduna train attack hostages in 2022, on an amended 17-count terrorism charge.

‎The remaining victims were reportedly passengers travelling in a commercial bus that was intercepted by the attackers while passing through the area.

The National Union of Tenants of Nigeria (NUTN) has urged Gov. Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers to intervene urgently in the worsening housing crises in the Port Harcourt and Obio/Akpor areas of the state.

No fewer than eight persons were reportedly killed while more than 10 others sustained injuries following an attack by gunmen on Gwon-Ajang village in Foron District of Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State.

The fallout from the state council elections, in which the national leadership of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, has been accused of attempting to impose preferred candidates on some state councils, has taken a new twist.

A severe domestic energy crisis is forcing millions of households across Nigeria to abandon clean energy alternatives and revert to primitive cooking fuels. 

By Adeola Badru IBADAN — More than two weeks after the abduction of Mrs. Rachael Alamu, principal of Community High School, Ahoro-Esinle in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State, her husband, Professor Wole Alamu, says the kidnappers are refusing to negotiate with the family and insist on dealing directly with the government. Professor Alamu, a […]

Yerima Shettima is the Convener of the Northern stakeholders consultative initiative, an influential socio-cultural and political organisation representing the interests of youths in Northern Nigeria.

By Okhumeode Momodu Dr Chichi Menakaya is a London-based robotic trauma and orthopaedic surgeon. As she reflects on the 92nd birthday of her father, Dr Timothy Ndubisi Menakaya, she advises that Nigeria must rethink how it cares for its ageing population. In this interview, Dr Menakaya speaks on… ageing, caregiving, mobility, dementia, and the emotional […]

Akaninyene Eretus has told detectives that he killed two men to avenge the deaths of his parents and two elder brothers during a communal crisis nearly 29 years ago.

The jury, comprising eight women and four men, found Odiong, 57, guilty of one count of first-degree sexual assault and two counts of second-degree sexual assault involving two women who testified during the trial in Waco.

Tragedy struck in the early hours on Saturday, following a fatal lone vehicular accident along the ever-busy Oshodi-Apapa Expressway at Charity Bus Stop, inward Iyana Isolo, Lagos, claiming the life of the driver.

Known among both indigenes and settlers as the Seriki Fulani of the area, he was regarded as a bridge between cultures