A young spinster is now helping the police with information on how a married man was found dead on top of her in a low profile hotel frequented by commercial sex workers in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. EDEM EDEM reports. They have been havin...
Residents of the Federal Capital Territory may heave a sigh of relief if the assurances of its minister, Senator Bala Mohammed, that the Abuja master plan is not sacrosanct is anything to go by. The minister, in an interview, said that some development...
As the Zonal Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party embarks on reconciliatory and inspection visits to states in the South East zone, watched carefully by the rival All Progressives Grand Alliance, ONYEKAOZULU OFOMA writes that the strategy ...
The presidency yesterday denied federal government’s involvement in the bribery scandal between Hon. Farouk Lawan and oil business mogul, Femi Otedola. In a statement by the Special Adviser to the president on political matters, Ahmed Gulak...
The Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has denied any agreement between its governorship candidate in next Saturday’s election, General Charles Arhiavbere and Chief Tony Anenih, which it claimed is being circulated by the Com...
The Cross River State Government has filed an application before the Supreme Court, asking it to put on hold its scheduled judgement on the dispute between it and Akwa Ibom State over the ownership of the disputed 76...
Deputy Senate president and chairman of the Senate Committee on Constitution Review, Sen. Ike Ekweremadu, yesterday advocated the abolition of all cultural and traditional practices that limit the potentials of women in the country. Ekweremadu spoke th...
Following the allegation of corrupt practices involving National Assembly members,the National Leader of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has warned legislators elected on the platform of the party not to join the bandwagon. Speaki...
Osun state secretariat of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) yesterday turned into war theatre as members of the party from Osogbo localgovernment engaged one another in a free for all . The ACN members who were protesting t...
Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) has said that it would make a presentation before the United States Congress on July 10, 2012 on the refusal of the federal government to begin the implementation of the environmental assessment report ...
A senator representing Kaduna Central, Major-General S. Saleh (retd), yesterday said that Nigerians should not expect much from the newly appointed national security adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd), as according to him, the office of the national sec...
Reactions have continued to trail last week’s demolition of parts of the secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Abuja Council, located in Utako, Abuja, by officials of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA). Although ...
The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Ogun State Command, has arrested a lady, Ikechukwu Abigail, suspected to be a burglar, while attempting to steal money from a car parked at the governor’s office in Oke –Mosan, Ab...
Some groups of lawyers yesterday, in Kaduna called on the federal government to allow independent lawyers, especially, Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN) to investigate the fuel subsidy bribery scandal, that transpired between Honourable Farouk Lawal an...
The UN Security Council renewed the mandate of its peacekeeping mission in South Sudan for second year on Thursday. At the occasion, UN chief Ban Ki-moon warned that the future of the year-old state was tied to developing good relations with former civ...