The Edo State government on Wednesday dismissed two officials from its service over their complicity in an alleged kidnap case. The government, in a letter dated August 2, and signed by permanent secretary, Ministry of Environment and Public Utilities,...
A human rights activist, Mr. Mohammed Kazeen, has filed a legal action before a Federal High Court in Ikeja against the National Judicial Council (NJC), asking the court to declare the Justice Ibrahim Auta –led panel which the NJC set up to revie...
The trial of Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, the Chief Security officer of late Military ruler General Sani Abacha continued at the Lagos High Court, Igbosere with him playing the videotape of a VHS recording showing the visit of some South-West leader...
While the whole world knows about the United Stations Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in May, many of the details of the mission have been shrouded in operational secrecy--until now. In an astonishingly detailed reconstruction pu...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has warned all telecom operators, SIM card vendors, retailers and the public to stop selling pre-registered new SIM cards. A statement from NCC signed yesterday in Abuja by Reuben Muoka, the Head, Media and ...
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) yesterday approved the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN’s) cashless economy proposal, seeking to use Lagos to test run the policy. The FEC added that the policy would help reduce cost of running banks by 30...
The political lobbying and jostling for ministerial appointment may have come and gone but the aftermath have continued to plague the crisis-ridden Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP). Aggrieved members have vowed to destroy the pa...
Tiger Woods has revealed that rushing back from injury was one of the biggest mistakes of his career. He lasted just nine holes at The Players Championship at Sawgrass in May, before suffering a recurrence of his troublesome knee and Achilles injuries....
For demanding and accepting bribe, operatives of the ICPC have arrested a Magistrate Court Judge in Enugu, Judge Joseph Sunday Edeh of the Enugu North Local Government Council Magistrate Court. Edeh was brought to the commission’s headquarters in...
Workers in Edo State yesterday commenced an indefinite strike following breakdown in negotiations between the government and the state chapters of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC). The strike, expectedly paralysed activities...
Three former Oyo State Commissioners in the administration of Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala were yesterday quizzed by operatives of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) in connection with an alleged N6.2billion frau...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday released a timetable for staggered governorship elections in six states -Sokoto, Bayelsa, Edo, Adamawa, Cross River and Kogi. The INEC commissioner in charge of Information and Publicity, P...
The manner in which the nation’s tertiary institutions conduct admission for new entrants is marred with irregularities. The situation is not getting any better and those seeking admission are the worst for it. However, at the second combined pol...
Cross River State Government might be on a collision course with its sister states, Rivers and Akwa-Ibom, as it refuted publications credited to their respective governors, Chief Rotimi Amaechi and Obong Godswill Akpabio. The first refutal was over the...
Anglo-Dutch oil giant, Shell, has accepted responsibility for two devastating oil spills in Ogoniland in Rivers State. The Bodo fishing community in Ogoni, sued Shell in the United Kingdom (UK), alleging that oil spills in 2008 and 2009 had destroyed t...