The federal government of Nigeria this week announced the suspension of mining activities in Zamfara state to check the activities of bandits and criminals who have made the state a by word for impudent criminality.

RESCUERS at the scene of a fatal auto crash at Moniya, Ibadan, Akinyele Local Government area of Oyo State threatened to attack some officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps for allegedly chasing a commercial Micra car until it crashed, leaving one person dead and four others critically injured.

Strip bars are sprouting everywhere.  It’s a cancerous phenomenon.A friend saw the house next door go up for sale. Then the buyer, the new owner,  began a curious renovation. When he was done, he hung  a cryptic sign. The neighborhood resisted the invasion by a putative beer parlor. The  beer parlor resisted the onslaught of anxious neighbours.  The law enforcement agents showed naked lethargy. The patrons of the new investment overwhelmed the moral disgust of the finicky  neighbours. The beer park-our stood.

A certain politician who sees  himself as personifying Lagos, was said to have made a comment years ago, when he was still directly running the state. After a hard day’s job attending to the affairs of Lagos, with its intrigues and power play, this man allegedly got up, stretched his arms and torso before announcing to those in his company that he was tired and wanted to go to bed. Nothing is wrong with that. However, his alleged choice of words did not escape the notice of those in the room and possibly the entire state in its import. ‘Ore Eko. Ekofelo’sun.’ (Lagos is tired. Lagos wants to sleep).

The All Progressive Congress, APC, has lodged an attack against the petition seeking to invalidate the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari, even as it branded the presidential candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, an alien.

National  Working Committee, NWC, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, said no amount of  fabrications, attempt at set-up, veiled and open threats by the All Progressives Congress, APC-led Federal Government would stop its Presidential candidate in the 2019 election, Atiku Abubakar from reclaiming his mandate at the tribunal.

…decries ‘arrest’ of judgment on suit seeking to declare their seats vacant By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA—The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, on Thursday, accused the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, and 52 other lawmakers of engaging in misconduct by arresting judgment on a suit […]

The federal government on Thursday warned the Presidential candidate of the of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, not to do anything that could land him in avoidable trouble by desperately trying to become president through the backdoor after being rejected by Nigerians at the polls.

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi, on Wednesday said that the Google originated from the ‘Ifa’ also known as the oracle.

The outgoing Imo state governor, Rochas Okorocha, Mondday gave what he described as two reasons the Igbo people failed woefully in Nigeria politics.

ABUJA—THE House of Representatives Committee on Tourism and Culture, yesterday, queried the General Manager of National Theatre, Dr Stella Oyedepo, for spending N29 million to renovate toilets.

TWO landmark court judgements delivered by the same High Court Judge in Ondo State, Justice Samuel Bola have sent jitters down the spines of all convicted persons across the courts in the state.

Founder of Miracle Working God Ministry in Sapele, Delta State, Prophet Patrick Eyaefe, whose wife died from snake bite hours after their wedding, yesterday, narrated how the negligence of a private hospital led to her death.

A Federal High Court sitting in Asaba on Thursday has nullified the All Progressive Congress, APC governorship primary election conducted in Delta state.

Ex-Niger Delta agitators under the aegis of Niger Delta Ken Saro Wiwa Adaka Boro Biafra Freedom Fighters, have called on the United Nations and the international community to mount pressure on the Nigerian government for the actualisation of Biafra Republic.