• 14 more terrorists killed, 20 captured  • Three soldiers die, one missing • Jonathan thanks Nigerians for support  • U.S. urges restraint by military NIGERIAN troops in the North-East [...]

• Ties economic growth to local content • Laments stock market crash ALMOST six years after he left office, erstwhile President Olusegun Obasanjo Sunday reflected on his administration and deplored [...]

A Federal High Court, Lagos has convicted and sentence two men to 20 years imprisonment each for illicit drug deal. The convicts are Gabriel Obi and Godfrey Ugwu. They were [...]

Seeks holiday for health check-up DEARTH of funds is threatening the recommencement of the overseas clinical programme for doctors which the Federal Government reintroduced last December, the Nigerian Medical Association, [...]

•Raises peace panel CITING inconsistency, the Enugu State chapter of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of playing to the gallery and prolonging [...]

PRO-TOBACCO campaigners and labour groups have urged the Lagos State House of Assembly to exercise caution in its debate on a bill banning cigarette smoking in schools, hotels, bars, nightclubs [...]

THE aerial bombardment, involving jets and helicopter gunships, targeted at Boko Haram terrorist training camps in the southern and northern parts of Borno State, continued Friday with unconfirmed number of [...]

THE influx of people suspected to be foreigners into Makurdi and other parts of Benue State in the wake of the security challenges tormenting the country is generating a lot [...]

• Defends Government’s Action • Explains Jonathan’s Visit To South Africa THE Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Olugbenga Ashiru has assured Nigerians that the Federal Government would suspend the state [...]

AN Insurance Firm, Leadway Assurance Company Limited (Leadway), has debunked an allegation of defaulting to meet its obligations on an Advance Payment Bond (APB) it issued on behalf of a [...]

THE Nigeria Meteorological Agency (NIMET) has said that Nigeria lost N570 billion to last year’s flood that affected several states of the federation. The revelation, has however, made the Nigerian [...]

JUSTICE Okechukwu Okeke of the Federal High Court Friday convicted the producers of the killer teething syrup, my pikin and sentenced them to seven years imprisonment, ordering the company to [...]

THE resuscitated Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) has described the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) as a reactionary party, saying that it has descended into conservatism. The party, which undertook [...]

FOLLOWING the faking of nursing homes, maternities and the urgent need to curb the violation of child rights, abductions, illegal adoption and other social vices targeted at children, the Abia [...]

FOR shooting to death a certain Ndubuisi Onyibe Nwanga of Ezza-South Local Council of Ebonyi State during last weekend’s road traffic confusion around the Abakpa Market in Abakaliki, the state [...]

SEQUEL to the call by Ondo State governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, to all the political parties that contested the last October 20 governorship election against his Labour Party (LP) platform [...]

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday declared a state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa  states,  citing insecurity. Borno and Yobe are controlled by the ANPP while  the ruling PDP [...]

THIS week, the United Nations (UN) former Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, will begin a series of conversations on critical global issues with young people around the world. The former UN boss [...]

Issues in the news THE scope of United States (U.S.) military assistance to Nigeria and the U.S. Read full story on author website »

ANOTHER unfortunate scenario that would certainly worsen the plight of persons recently displaced from their villages and homes by the recent religious crisis in Taraba State is unfolding with the [...]

• Stakeholders task firms on production figures • NNPC, legislators, operators back PIB A GRAPHIC picture of how sophisticated oil theft gangs in the Niger Delta frustrate an accurate measurement [...]

ASABA, the Delta State capital, Sunday hosted a meeting of the South-South governors and their Southeast counterparts, with the chief executives of the states deliberating on the way forward for [...]

FOR the umpteenth time, the Governor of Akwa Ibom State and the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum, Godswill Akpabio, has stated that he has no interest [...]

• Seeks support for early completion INSECURITY in the Niger Delta region is at the heart of problems hampering the early completion of the section two of the East-West Road, [...]

IN 1984, the U.S. Geological Survey and NASA launched a programme called Landsat, capturing and archiving hi-resolution satellite images of the earth’s surface. Google and Time magazine recently teamed up [...]

• Governor Dissociates Self Governor of Niger state, Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, has disassociated himself from posters and billboards (erected in some parts of the country) announcing his interest to [...]

A Federal High court Lagos, Friday, discharged an Onitsha-based medical doctor, charged with illicit drug deal. The trial judge, Okechukwu Okeke also acquitted the accused of all counts of the [...]

THE crisis tearing apart members of the Kwara State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) may soon be over with the appointment of a new Caretaker Committee to [...]

EKITI State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi Friday said he has delivered 70 per cent of his campaign promises to the people within the last two and a half years in [...]