Issues

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has disclosed that it will commence the second phase of Constituency Projects Tracking Group Initiatives (CPTG). Chairman of the Commission, Professor Bolaji Owasanoye, who was represented by Commissioner for Cross ...

Communities in Cross River have decried a mystery fire that destroyed their crops worth millions of naira. The affected settlements, Agba, Bansan and Obubra, in Boki council area of the state last week woke up to the terrifying news. The ...

The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has asked the Federal Government to conduct forensic investigation of the immediate and remote causes of the Abule-Ado explosion of Sunday, March 15, 2020, which killed scores and led to devastation ...

The Iyatsere of Warri, Chief Johnson Atseleghe, has sued for peace between the warring Bini and Itsekiri youths of Ologbo community in Ikpoba Okha Local Council of Edo State. The combatants had been engaged in a fierce battle over a ...

The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) has berated President Mohammandu Buhari for inaugurating the advisory and monitoring committees for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) without a substantive board in place. It insisted that the committee’s inauguration was akin to building ...

The Niger State government has placed a total ban on any form of begging in the state. Commissioner of Information and Communication, Alhaji Mohammed Sani Idris, who disclosed this to journalists in Minna, said the law was not aimed at ...

Ex-agitators Forum of the Presidential Amnesty Programme has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint a qualified indigene of Akwa Ibom State origin as the next Special Adviser/National Coordinator of the programme. Leader of the forum, Comrade Imoh Stephen Okoko, in ...

The Director-General of Standard Organization of Nigeria (SON) Mr Osita A bolo ma disclosed in a one day Stakeholders forum Organized by the agency recently in Lagos in A papa that he wants (SON) to come back to the ports. ...

Representative of Kwande/Ushongo Federal constituency of Benue State, Bob Tyough, has raised the alarm that herdsmen are still attacking and killing his people on daily bases. In a statement made available to newsmen, he said the reaction became necessary to ...

Subtle moves by the Ijaw of Delta South Senatorial District to occupy Government House, Asaba in 2023, has been challenged by the Urhobo, who have argued that the Ijaw were trying to truncate the procedure for transition. They insisted that ...