2018

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…

Officials of Real Madrid Football Club and Confederation of African Football (CAF) yesterday, performed the historic foundation laying ceremony for the Real Madrid Football Academy in Port Harcourt, initiated by Rivers State Governor,…

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has stated that the state government will continue to invest in sports development to empower Rivers youths. Speaking during a courtesy Visit by the President of Inter- national Sports Press…

By Kingsley Maduforo The foremost African writer and prolific novelist, Professor Chinua Achebe once said: 'The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. There is nothing wrong with the Nigerian land or…

The police confirmed yesterday that four people were killed and seven injured in the latest Boko Haram attack on the town of Konduga in Borno State. The commissioner of police in the state, Mr. Damian Chukwu, told reporters in Maiduguri…

Barely a week after priests and parishioners that were killed by Fulani herdsmen were buried in the Catholic Diocese of Makurdi, Benue State, Rev. Fr. Cornelius Koba, Sunday night, narrowly escaped death with gunshot wounds, as Fulani…