Yearly Archives

2018

IPI director visits Nigeria

Ahead of the world congress of the International Press Institute (IPI) scheduled for Nigeria in June, the director of the world body, Barbara Trionfi, will visit the country from Wednesday.  According to the statement issued by Managing…

Zamfara killers arrested

Three principal suspects arrested for allegedly participaing in the recent Zamfara killings are now in police custody and are assisting the police in the investigation into the crime. The suspects are Garba, 45, Marafa, 45, and Badamosi,…

Novelist, playwright Akinwunmi Ishola dies at 78

A renowned playwright, actor, culture activist and scholar Professor Ishola Akinwunmi has passed on after a prolonged illness. He died yesterday in his Ibadan residence at 78. Isola, who wrote the popular play Efunsetan Aniwura when he was…

MASSOB orders members to register for PVC

The leadership of the Movement for a Sovereign State of Biafra has urged its members to register en mass at the ongoing continuous permanent voter card registration. A statement issued in Owerri, the Imo State capital on Friday by…

Zuma’s statue: I Go Dye counsels Gov Okorocha

Nigerian comedy ace, Francis Agoda, popularly known as ‘I Go Dye’ has advised Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha to remove the statue of the erstwhile South African president, Jacob Zuma from Owerri, the state’s capital. I Go Die…