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Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has commended military and police personnel for their prompt intervention in the clash between suspected herdsmen and Uwheru communities in Ughelli North Local Council of Delta State. He, however, expressed sadness over the death of over eight ...

The Federal Government has ruled out refunding the N20 billion the Governor Ben Ayade administration is spending on the Tinapa-Odukpani junction dual carriage and the Odukpani junction spaghetti flyover in Cross River State. The state has in the past two ...

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has called on the military to find a way of cultivating working partnerships and relationships with international groups in Nigeria, particularly the Amnesty International (AI). It said there was no need for ...

The candidate of the defunct National Republican Convention (NRC) in the annulled June 12, 1993, presidential election, Alhaji Usman Bashir Tofa, at the weekend decried the pervasive poverty and illiteracy in Kano, stating that the development was adversely affecting the ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has stressed the need for universities to maintain a stable academic calendar for the attainment of national development goals owing to the key role they have to play in bring the aspiration to fruition. He made the ...

Governor Aminu Masari has offered an insight into what led to the attacks and killing of over 30 persons by unknown gunmen on Friday evening at Tsayau and Dankar villages in Batsari Local Council of Katsina State. The mayhem, perpetrated ...

Besides Egypt, which already has a confirmed case of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), researchers and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have identified Algeria and South Africa as African countries most at risk while Nigeria, Ethiopia, Sudan, Angola, Tanzania, Ghana and ...

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the Federal Government to “disclose within seven days the exact amount of public funds stolen by former military Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, and details of spending of the about ...

The Police Explosive Ordinance Disposal Department (EOD) has said its officers and men were fully prepared for the governorship election holding in September in Edo State. The special unit of the police also disclosed that henceforth officers and men of ...

The Akwa Ibom House of Assembly has directed the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to take immediate steps to relocate the head offices of the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) and the National Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPIMS) to the ...