The Edo State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of three herdsmen suspected to have raped and subsequently killed a middle-aged woman. The victim was said to have been attacked alongside her 18 years old son while returning from farm at Odighi village in Ovia North East Local Government. The identity of the victim was…
By By NDUBUISI ORJI • Progressives unlikely to witness change – Okurounmu A former governor of old Oyo State, Dr. Victor Omololu Olunloyo, has said that the ongoing National Conference may not achieve anything concrete. He said the Federal Government allegedly disregarded the advice of the Presidential Advisory Committee on the National Conference regarding tis composition. This…
By ROSE EJEMBI, Makurdi While the Benue State Government has directed farmers who were displaced from their communities by Fulani invaders to go back and commence farming activities, the farmers have cried out that they have nothing to return to as their homes and farmlands have been destroyed by the invaders. Chairman of Internally Displaced…
It has emerged that National Leader of opposition All Progressives’ Congress (APC), Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu and another APC chieftain, Senator Bukola Saraki stormed Kano to prevail on Governor Rabiu Kwankwanso to appoint Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi emir. Reports had filtered earlier Sunday that Kano king makers had recommended Ciroman Kano, Alhaji Ibrahim Ado Bayero…
There was a report credited to you that guns and bombs will not help in the fightagainst insecurity in Nigeria. In the present situation the country has found itself, what do you think needs to be done?In the article I wrote, the point I was making is that guns and bombs alone cannot solve the…
By Levinus NwabughioguMr Olusola Ebiseni, Commissioner for Environment in Ondo State and a delegate to the National Conference, says oil was first discovered in Ondo State and not Bayelsa contrary to what is widely believed.He was completely ruffled by the omission of his name. Others had been called. They had also spoken and another phase…
The Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, has described poverty as worse than the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, HIV, saying nothing would make him, his family and generation return to poverty.He said this at the fourth Nigeria Governors’ Forum retreat in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Friday.Okorocha stated that it was not necessary for governors and…
If the former CBN Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi becomes the next Emir of Kano, things will never remain the same again in the Nigerian political space as those who fought him will have no choice but to…!Anyway, the race to succeed the late Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, has begun. Already, contenders for the…
Former Minister of Information and former Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC)Professor Dora Akunyili has died.Professor Akuniyili died at the age of 59 after a long battle with cancerFormer governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, confirmed the death of Professor Dora Akunyili on behalf of the…
■ Ilomuanya and Onyeneke dethroned The Imo State government yesterday announced the dethronement of two traditional rulers. The deposed monarchs are Eze Cletus Ilomuanya, who was the traditional ruler of Obinugwu Autonomous Community in Orlu Local Government Area, and Eze Cosmos Onyeneke, the traditional ruler of Lagwa Autonomous Community in Aboh Mbaise Local Government Area.…