The Bayelsa State government set up a special security outfit in 2010 to entrench peace and security in the state. One year later, OSA OKHOMINA writes that the outfit may have been turned into a witch hunt tool against innocent citizens and opposition ...
Sir Victor Umeh is the National Chairman of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA). In this interview with IGHO OYOYO in Abuja, x-rays the country’s political independence anniversary at 51, corruption, party politics, leadership, followership...
Osa Okhomina inYenagoa writes on the scramble for the soul of Sagbama and Ekeremor Local Government Areas of Bayelsa by desperate politicians to oil the re-election of Bayelsa State Governor, Timipre Sylva. When the duo of the Sagbama and Ekeremor Loca...
The International Criminal Court (ICC) yesterday authorised its prosecutor to probe alleged abuses committed during the recent post-election violence in Côte d’Ivoire – the seventh investigation in Africa and the first in a State that is n...
Residents of Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital were yesterday subjected to a harrowing experience when drivers’ unions launched attacks on commuters, motorists and motorcyclists. The suspected hoodlums who claimed to be members of th...
As the battle for the gubernatorial ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party,(PDP), in Adamawa State draws nearer, a frontline gubernatorial aspirant on the platform of the party, Dr. Umar Ardo, has accused Governor Murtala Nyako of mortgagin...
In what appeared to be reminiscent of the famous Aba Women`s Riot of 1929, women of St. Jude’s Catholic church in Ameachi, Awkunanaw, the community of former Senate president, Chief Ken Nnamani yesterday staged a protest over al...
A comprehensive housing scheme for Delta State citizens has kicked off in various parts of the state, Chief Paulinus Akpeki, the State Commissioner for Housing, has said. Akpeki disclosed that in realization of Uduaghan’s three-point agenda, the ...
Wife of late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Mrs. Hannah Awolowo, the Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuade, and other prominent sons and daughters of the South West geo-political zone are expected to converge on Ikenne resident of the late sage on Thursday to discu...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said that the one million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Bauchi camps are not from Jos North alone but from various crisis-ridden states. “According to the Agency, the one million IDPs repre...
Bauchi State Governor Isa Yuguda has condoled with the government and people of Gombe State over the accident that occurred on Thursday in the state and claimed lives and property. Yuguda, who stated this during a visit to Gombe State Gover...
Following the industrial action embarked upon by civil servants over the N18,000 minimum wage in Plateau State, more labour unions are to join the strike as unions of tertiary institutions have also threaten to start another strike on Wednesday, ...
Nasarawa State governor, Umaru Al-Mahura, has flagged off the construction of 50 street roads in Lafia, the state capital, during which he lamented that the complete absence of physical development in the state was the source of worry to the present Co...
The Nupe Foundation has called for strict punishment against those behind the students’ unrest at the Federal Polytechnic, Bida, Niger State on September 26, 2011, that led to the destruction of the institution’s facilities. The president o...
Armed men suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect yesterday killed three people and injured many others at a market in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. The commissioner of police, Borno State Command, Mr. Simeon Midenda, confirmed the killing...