May 2018

Liverpool are closing in on a €50m (£43.7m) deal for Monaco’s Fabinho. The two clubs have agreed a fee for the Brazilian midfielder, although a final deal is yet to be completed. Sky reports that Liverpool will pay €45m (£39.3m) plus a…

The Ebonyi State Government on Monday, warned residents of the state against observing the sit-at-home order of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) slated for May 30. Kenneth Ugbala, the Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Internal…

More details have emerged on the meeting between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and leaders of the Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere. Obasanjo was reported to have said that President Muhammadu Buhari speaks from both sides of his…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday urged Nigerians to keep faith with the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led administration. He also appealed for support in the ongoing fight against corruption. Buhari spoke at this year’s Democracy Day…

The Ministry of Finance is yet to submit its report to the House of Representatives’ ad-hoc committee investigating the $17 million fee for lawyers involved in the transfer of $321 million Abacha loot to Nigeria. Attorney-General of the…

ONE of the suspects, Michael Adikwu, a dismissed policeman, who was arrested after being declared wanted in connection with the April 5 bank robbery in Offa, Kwara State, where over 30 persons lost their lives, has revealed that he…

The worst of civilian government is preferable to the best of military dictatorship, says Aare Afe Babalola. In this piece entitled: “May 29 Democracy Day challenges: A call for national conference on restructuring”, the founder of Afe…

A Federal High Court in Abuja has remanded former Zamfara State Governor Mahmud Aliyu Shinkafi, and ex-Minister of State for Finance Bashir Yuguda in prison. Two others – former Secretary to the State Government Aminu Ahmad Nahuce, and…

Governor Okezie Ikpeazu PhD, was on the media glare once again as the Christian Youth Leadership Assembly, last week honoured him as the Nehemiah of our time. Such description by the group on our "silent achiever", if I am to employ…

No fewer than 2, 000 members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB),  yesterday took to the streets and roads  of Onitsha, Anambra State, on peaceful march to sensitise the public on the sit-at-home order it declared on May 30, to honour…