Month: January 2016

ABAKALIKI—THE former National Chairman of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, Chief Victor Umeh weekend debunked the claims in some quarters that President Muhammadu Buhari’s war against corruption was an...

Indian police s successfully deployed an unusual technique to retrieve a gold chain that a thief had swallowed while officers were in hot pursuit — they force-fed him more than...

Worried by  the deteriorating health of its incarcerated leader and Director of Radio Biafra, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, in the cell of the Department of State Service, DSS, the Indigenous People...

UGHELLI—THERE was tension, yesterday, at Upper Afiesere Junction, Ughelli, as a combined team of policemen and vigilante engaged a gang of suspected armed robbers in a shootout, during which two...

BENIN—A governorship aspirant on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in this year’s  election in Edo State, Pastor Osagie  Ize-Iyamu, has denied allegations that he shared rice meant for...

BENIN—FORMER Vice Chairman of Association of Local Governments of Nigeria, ALGON, in Edo State, Mr Gani Audu, weekend, faulted the allegation by the former Chairman of Esan North-East Local Government...

LAGOS—Serving Overseer of the LatterRain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare has stressed the need for President Muhammadu Buhari to implement the recommendations of the 2014 National Conference, saying its outcome is...

Prince Bola Ajibola (SAN),was president of the Nigeria Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) between 1984 and 1985 when he led Nigerian lawyers in a boycott of the courts in protest against...

HISTORY beckons on incumbent Governor Henry Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa after the keenly contested governorship election in the predominantly riverine state. Dickson, fondly called ‘Countryman Governor’ had maintained a commanding...

LAGOS—Operatives of the Rapid Respond Squad, RRS, of the Lagos State Police Command, weekend, arrested 11 suspected members of a robbery gang that specialized in attacking fun seekers at the...