Issues

No fewer than 15 persons have been feared killed in Akwanga Local Government Area of Nasarawa State following a fatal road accident in the area. The accident occurred about 8am yesterday when a Carina Station Wagon conveying 10 passengers and ...

Cross River State government has expressed optimism that the collaboration between the navy and the judiciary would go a long way in reducing crime on Nigeria’s waterways. The deputy governor, Prof. Evara Esu, stated this at a law conference organised ...

Deputy Governor of Delta State, Kingsley Burutu Otuaro has lamented continued destruction of Niger Delta environment by the military through demolition of seized vessels laden with illegally bunkered crude oil. While seeking an end to the menace, Otuato said the ...

The police have beefed up security in Kaduna and its environs to contain possible  ‘invasion’ by members of Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), popularly known as Shiites. Residents woke up to discover heavy presence of armed security operatives and deployment ...

The Nigeria Customs Seme Area Command has intercepted one white Scania truck carrying rotten hide and skin popularly known as ‘Ponmo’, 146 parcels of cannabis concealed in one red Toyota Highlander jeep and 5,204 bags of 50kg foreign rice, which ...

Lagos State government has threatened to henceforth blacklist contractors who fail to comply with the state’s guidelines on construction of houses. Permanent Secretary of the state’s Housing Ministry, Wasiu Akewusola, disclosed this during the inspection of housing schemes at Igando ...

Members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) have vowed to continue their protest nationwide, calling on the Federal Government for the umpteenth time to release their leader, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, his wife and stop police brutality. A statement yesterday ...

Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III and Archbishop of Enugu Ecclesiastical Province (Anglican Communion), Reverend Emmanuel Chukwuma have expressed worries over the new dimension of insecurity in the country. The Sultan cautioned that Nigerians must sit together to find ...

Deputy Chairman, North Central Zone of the Northern Elders’ Forum (NEF), Ambassador Yahaya Kwande, has faulted the idea that the Middle Belt extends beyond the present North Central Zone of the country. In a statement issued yesterday in Jos, he ...

Angered by rampant killings in the country, Committee for Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) has sought the removal or resignation of service chiefs for their failure to arrest banditry. In a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Henry ...