President of the United States of America, USA, Barack Obama, has raised alarm over the spate of hunger and starvation especially in the North East of Nigeria, triggered by the on-going war against Boko Haram, under the watch of President [...]
PARIS, JUNE 27, 2016: (DGW) The humanitarian crisis in war-torn Syria will be a child’s play compared to the crisis that is gradually brewing in Nigeria with a population of over 180 million former US Congressman, Frank Wolf has warned. [...]
Nigeria generated nearly half a million job in the first quarter of 2015, the National Bureau of Statistics said Thursday in its new report. The report said between January and March, 469,070 jobs were created in all sectors of the [...]
Former Governor of Lagos, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has acquired for himself a new private jet, a source, who is a close friend of the leader of All Progressives Congress, APC, has revealed. According to the source, the jet is [...]
The Bauchi State Commissioner of Justice has indicated interest to take over criminal prosecution of certificate forgery charge earlier filed by Ibrahim Angale of Congress for Progressive (CPC) against Yakubu Ahmed Mohammed of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) representing Bauchi Central [...]
The American government has urged its Nigerian counterpart and other partners to redouble efforts at ending the humanitarian crisis in the insurgency-ravaged North-East geopolitical zone. The outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, James Entwistle, said more needed to be done [...]
The Niger Delta Avengers has announced fresh attacks on major oil and gas installations in Nigeria. The militant group said it carried out attacks on facilities operated by Chevron and the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NPDC. It said [...]
The founder of Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, Dr Fredrick Fasehun, has charged Nigerians to stop complaining about the present economic hardship in the country since it was them that voted for change. Speaking in an interview with the [...]
History is repeating itself again in Nigeria, as the second coming of Muhammadu Buhari as Nigerian leader has ushered in a level of hardship last experienced in 1984 to 1985 Buhari’s military regime and the Biafra war. President Buhari who [...]
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode’s first year in office is a resounding success by widespread acclamation. Nothing today gives me more joy. Had he failed, I would have been inundated with phone calls and text messages mocking me for calling for a [...]
By Francis Igata,Enugu The Catholic Bishop of Enugu Diocese, Most Rev. Calistus Onaga, on Saturday at the Holy Ghost Cathedral, slammed security agencies in the state, for not doing enough to curb the incessant menace of herdsmen which has created [...]
By Jimitota Onoyume A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State, Mr Ojukaye Flag – Amachree, has been slammed a fresh five-count charge bordering on the alleged murder of one Iminabo Dokubo, attempted murder of Ipalibo Jackson [...]
By Ola Ajayi, Ibadan A member of Oyo State House of Assembly, Mr. Gideon Aremu, representing Oorelope constituency, has been reportedly murdered by unknown gunmen. He was said to have been killed on Friday night in his Alakia residence in [...]
By Omeiza Ajayi Was it a jail-break. Was it an invasion? Whatever it was, the evening of Friday, June 24, is certainly one that residents of Kuje, a sub-urban town of nearly 43 kilometres from the Abuja city-centre, are not [...]
*Charge constitute abuse of judicial process — Court By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor & Ikechukwu Nnochiri Senator Ita Enang, the presidential liaison officer to the Senate, was like a fish out of water, penultimate Saturday, at the opening of the Senate [...]
By Emma Amaize, Regional Editor, South-South, Egufe Yafugborhi, Perez Brisibe & Kingsley Omonobi THE Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, yesterday, denied that two suspects, Christian Oluba, alias Sensor, and Selky Kile Torughedi, arrested by the Department of Security Service, DSS, in [...]
By Gabriel Onogholase, Benin-City Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu is the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the September 10, 2016 governorship election in Edo State. In this interview, Ize Iyamu speaks on his ambition to govern the state, his [...]
SIMON EBEGBULEM, BENIN CITY Mrs Ann Valentina Ideh, a renown ophthalmologist in Edo State, Is the proprietor of Prime Opticals and Eye Clinic in Benin City. Every year, Ideh embarks on free eye treatment which includes surgery for indigent patients. [...]
By Ugochukwu Alaribe and Omeiza Ajayi The confusion, triggered by Dr Uchechukwu Sampson Ogah, who obtained a court order which sacked Governor Okezie Ikpeazu and affirmed him as governor-elect, expanded, at the weekend, as the third contender to the [...]