Things are currently falling apart between Rivers State, and its sister state, Bayelsa, the home state of President Goodluck Jonathan, over boundary problems. The backstage conflict appears to have taken a new twist with the Rivers State Government dra...
The Head of Operation an three officials of the Independent National Electoral (INEC) were yesterday arraigned before a Federal High Court sitting in Benin, for allegedly receiving N2m bribe to falsify ballot papers. The INEC officials, Chinedu N...
Four suspected kidnappers were at the weekend killed by men of the Rivers State police in Oyigbo local government area of the state. The State commissioner of police, Mr.Suleiman Abba, while displaying the bodies of the suspected kidnappers...
Acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde has vowed to cleanse the anti-graft agency by setting up internal affairs department within the Commission. Lamorde twice made the promise to cleanse the ...
There was pandemonium in Osogbo on Sunday when a tipper truck crushed a motorcyclist and three passengers to death. The Head of Operations, Osun Sector Command of the FRSC, Mr Michael Olapade, confirmed that the accident occurred in front of Osun...
The Supreme Court of Nigeria has struck out an application for stay of proceedings before a High Court of Kogi State filed by the ex-governor, Prince Abubakar Audu who is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFC...
The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) has slated the men’s Olympic qualifying tournament for Venezuela. The decision was taken at their second and final meeting of 2011 in Madrid, Spain. The Nigerian senior team grabbed the playoffs spot...
Monday 5th December, 2011 was 10th of Muharram, 1433, and day in which the Muslim Consultative Forum (MCF) hosted Iftaar of the Ashuraa fast and discussion at the main hall of the Abuja National Mosque Conference Hall. The Executive Secretary of the Na...
The Governor of Imo State, Chief Owelle Rochas Okorocha has declared emergency on all the bad roads in the 27 local governments of the State and said that they will be completed and commissioned soon. Already contracts have been awarded for the d...
Former Minister of Defence and a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chieftain, Dr Shettima Mustafa, at the weekend vowed to bring the South West States presently under the control of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, back to the PDP if elected chairman...
That the marriage of Kate Henshaw has hit the rocks is no more news. In fact saying she has joined the league of the celebrities whose marriage has become history is no more exclusive. But the question people are asking this Calabar, Cross-River state-...
The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Mathew Hassan Kukah, has warned the government and those in authority against denying Nigerians the avenue to express their grievances, saying that doing so will ultimately lead to trouble. Kukah spoke yesterday a...
Couples are usually freaked about romantic dates and spicing their love life with lots of fun during the courtship period, but once they become comfortable in the relationship, get married and start having children the romance can sometimes dwindle. Wh...
Lagos has come to be synonymous with Eyo festival; the festivity that depicts the history and culture of the indigenous people of Lagos State. OLAOLU OLADIPO in this piece examines the place and significance of the festival to the indigenes of Lagos St...
If the federal government is serious about putting an end to the menace of the Islamic extremist group, Boko Haram in the country, then it should employ the service of the Odua People’s Congress (OPC). OPC coordinator, Chief Ganiyu Adams, said i...