Bayelsa State Governor Henry Seriake Dickson will today swear in the newly elected chairmen of the state’s eight councils. The chairmen emerged from last Saturday’s poll conducted by the Bayelsa State Independent Electoral Commission (BYSIEC). His Special Adviser on Public ...

Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde has promised that his government will not marginalise any zone in the state. Speaking in Ogbomoso during his Sallah visit to Oyo North senatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 election, ...

Considering the inability of the present government to arrest threatening national challenges, South-South Emerging Leaders’ Forum (SELF) has described as unfortunate the booting of former President Goodluck Jonathan out of Aso Villa in 2015. Chairman of the forum, Dr. Preye ...

Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Imo State chapter, Austin Chilakpu, has described as “too much” the appointment of 43 ministers by President Muhammadu Buhari. He therefore urged the president to merge the ministries to save cost of governance ...

Head, Department of Otolaryngology, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Enugu State, Dr. James Akpeh, has said that failure to prosecute medical quacks fuels the dangerous practice throughout the country. Speaking on ‘The Menace of Quackery and the Contemporary Medical ...

A civil society group, the Extra Step Initiative (ESI) has sued the Federal Government and the Joint Military Task Force (Operation Delta Safe) for the continuous pollution of the environment in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The group, which launched Stop ...

A new state of the climate report has confirmed that 2018 was the fourth warmest year in record dating back from the mid-1800s. It found that the major indicators of climate change continued to reflect trends consistent with a warming ...

Commander of Operation Safe Haven (OPSH), Major-General Augustine Agundu, has said the need to reinforce security in the hinterlands and check communal crisis informed the withdrawal of OPSH troops from checkpoints. He stressed that the decision to withdraw troops from ...

The Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has called for the release of journalist and former Political Editor of Daily Trust newspaper, Ibrahim Dan Halilu, detained by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS). It said that the Federal Government must compensate him ...

Borno State Governor Babagana Umara has deployed the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) agro-rangers and hunters to implement Rural Grazing Areas (RUGA) programme in the state. Land for the state’s RUGA, located in Sambisa Forest and its fringes, ...