The Imo State governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, has denied the reports on dissolution of Imo state Transition Committees of the twenty-seven local governments in the State. The governor made this known in a statement signed by Sam Onwuemeodo his Chief…
The trial of Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Aviation, was on Tuesday stalled at the Federal High Court, Abuja, due to the absence of a prosecution witness. Fani-Kayode was docked by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on…
When a church seeks to control every vestige of existence of its members through doctrinaire dictates and pedantic strictures it is no longer a household of faith as conceived by the early Christians in Antioch, but a cult. In the…
Femi Gbajabiamila, the lawmaker representing Surulere I Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives, did something noble on Tuesday: he spent some good time with a section of the society’s downtrodden. However, he shot himself in the foot, sort of,…
A suspected cholera outbreak has claimed 12 lives in Mubi North and Mubi South Local Government Areas of Adamawa, according to an official of the state Ministry of Health. The Head of Emergency Operation Centre and Director Public Health in…
Ovie Omo-Agege, senator representing Delta Central, said on Tuesday that he would not testify before a joint ad hoc committee set up to investigate the invasion and removal of mace from the Senate chamber. Senator Omo-Agege said the matter was…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday threw a jibe at former President Olusegun Obasanjo for spending $16bn on power projects during his tenure as the President without corresponding power supply to Nigerians. Although he did not mention any name, Buhari said…
Anguish, pains and rejection are perhaps the best words to describe the travails and agonies of primary schools’ teachers in Kogi State who are facing prolonged nonpayment of their salaries. Some of them are owed between 13-25 months. The case of these primary…
Policemen of the Inspector General of Police Rescue Team (IRT) deployed to five south-western states have arrested two more of the criminals involved in the much-talked-about Offa bank robbery. At least 12 people, including five policemen and a pregnant policewoman,…
A presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, says the Buhari government is bad business for a number of parliamentarians, civil servants and security agents. Mr Shehu said corrupt politicians, public officers, police officers, Customs and Immigration officials who hitherto benefited from corrupt…