Mr Kingsley Kuku, the Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Niger Delta Affairs, has said that the Presidential Amnesty office was not established to be a security outfit. Kuku said this in a statement signed by Mr Henry Ugbolue...
The Chairman of the Security Committee for 2012 Nwonyo Fishing Festival, Mr Sam Adda, says security agencies have been placed on red alert to ensure a hitch free festival. He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibi near Wukari in Taraba on Saturda...
The Enugu State Police Command has confirmed the release of the Spaniard, Dr Joe Machimbarrena, a medical doctor working with Niger Foundation Hospital in Enugu, after almost three weeks in captivity. He was abandoned in a place called Thinkers Corner ...
No developing nation will attain the Millennium Development Goals on reduction of child mortality, a World Bank Global Monitoring report (GMR) 2012 has revealed. The report , released at the ongoing Spring Meeting of the World Bank and the Internationa...
Chekwube Ngwoke, 24, an orphan, from Umu-Oworogu in Udenu Local Government Area of Enugu State, is now a shadow of her old self, having been bathed with acid by a woman who accused her of attempting to snatch her husband, Dozie Okafor, from...
More than two years after the Federal Government granted unconditional amnesty to militants in the Niger Delta and created avenues for the training and development of the youths, disgruntled groups of militias under the aegis of the Movement for the Em...
Ahead of deliberation on the petroleum subsidy probe report by the House of Representatives next Tuesday, EDEGBE ODEMWINGIE examines the intrigues that have trailed the release of the widely indicting report, amid reports of pressure on the committee t...
FRED ITUA examines the recent report of the Presidential Committee on the Rationalization and Restructuring of Federal Government Parastatals, Commissions and Agencies which recommended the pruning of statutory agencies from 263 to 161 to reduce govern...
Bhoja Air said all 127 people onboard one of its jets were killed yesterday in a crash near Islamabad, Pakistan. It was that nation’s worst air disaster in almost two years. The plane, a Boeing Co. 737-200 with 118 passengers and 9 crew members, ...
Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Agency (NERC), Dr. Sam Amadi, has linked the recent incidents of power outage across the country to the poor tariff system in the Nigerian Electricity Supply (NESI). He maintained that the recent shortage...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested 48 illicit drug dealers and impounded 106. 86 kilogrammes of hard drugs in the last three months. Similarly, the agency arrested 100 persons in connection with the consumption of illicit drugs withi...
The persistent inability of Nigerians across the world to access the official websites of government ministries, departments and agencies, MDAs, has continued to generate negative reactions across board even as no efforts are being made by the authorit...
Fear gripped residents of Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital when rockets accidently fired from the Nigeria Air Force Base, landed yesterday in Woji, a community in the outskirts of the city. Residents of Woji said a loud explosion was heard at 7....
For the first time in the last three years, Akure, the Ondo State capital, yesterday witnessed a violent clash that turned the ceremony meant to honour the third executive governor of the state, Chief Adebayo Adefarati into a bloody scene. The memorial...
The stage is now set for the Local Government elections in Ogun State as the Ogun State Independent Electoral Commssion, OGSIEC yesterday announced July 21, 2012 as the date fixed for the conduct of elections into elective offices for the 20 Local Gove...