Sierra Leone vice president seeks asylum at US embassy
Sierra Leone’s vice president, Samuel Sam-Sumana, has requested asylum at the US embassy in Freetown after soldiers surrounded his home, following his expulsion from the ruling All People’s Congress...
View ArticleBayelsa youths urged to desist from unauthorised gathering
Bayelsa State Police Command yesterday warned the youths with respect to unauthorized and unlawful gathering of persons or group of persons, without a duly approved Police permit. The statement issued...
View ArticleExpert underscores fire fighters’ challenges in Rivers
Lack of proper town planning and negation of existing building structures without corresponding care have been fingered as major challenges to fire fighting in Rivers State. This was made known by the...
View ArticleTraditional Medicine Association ready to cooperate with Osun govt on tax...
Traditional Medicine Association, TMA, has declared their allegiance and support to Osun State government on tax payment. This was made known in a meeting organized by Osun Internal Revenue Service, at...
View ArticleAPC questions morality of compensation to families of Immigration recruitment...
All Progressive Congress, APC has questioned government’s sincerity over compensation to families of Immigration recruitment tragedy. The APC Presidential Campaign Organisation in a statement said...
View ArticleGovernors shun North’s independence lecture
As Mark, Yero blame northern elite for region’s woes Eighteen of the 19 northern state governors were absent from the 56th anniversary lecture of the attainment of self government of the northern...
View ArticlePolice tear-gas protesting MASSOB members in Ebonyi
Operatives of Ebonyi state police command yesterday tear-gassed members of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, who were doing a peaceful protest at Spera-in-deo...
View ArticleAPC questions morality of compensation to families of Immigration recruitment...
All Progressive Congress, APC has questioned government’s sincerity over compensation to families of Immigration recruitment tragedy. The APC Presidential Campaign Organisation in a statement said...
View ArticleObiano flags off National Immunization Days programme
For effective health care delivery for the rural folks, the Nibo community yesterday handed over a bungalow staff quarters for its Primary Health Center to the Anambra state Government. The project was...
View ArticleChime grants premium waiver
To encourage business promotion in the South East, Enugu state government, is ready to grant a premium waiver on the permanent site of the Enugu international Trade Fair. It is only waiting for an...
View ArticleJonathan deserves 2nd term – Chidoka
Minister of Aviation, Chief Osita Chidoka has said that Nigerians have no credible alternative to President Goodluck Jonathan in the wake of the Presidential election slated for March 28, 2015,...
View ArticleBoko Haram attack Chad village
Fighters from Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamist insurgency attacked a village in Chad early on Sunday, killing one person, local residents said. Boko Haram, which is seeking to carve an Islamist emirate...
View ArticleMilitary retake Goniri from Boko Haram
Nigerian troops fighting the Boko Haram terrorist group in the nation’s north-east have taken over Goniri town in Yobe State, clearing terrorists from the location. The troops reclaimed the town on...
View ArticleAsaba youths storm coy’s site for jobs
Work was temporarily halted at the weekend when unemployed graduates from Asaba, Delta State, besieged the premises of Julius Berger Plc, the company handling the construction of the second Niger...
View ArticleGov Dickson tasks monarchs on PVCs’ collection
Bayelsa State governor, Honourable Seriake Dickson has tasked traditional rulers in the state to prevail on their subjects to take advantage of the extension of deadline by the Independent National...
View ArticleINEC is ready to conduct elections – Jega
Attahiru Jega told a meeting in the capital city Abuja that his Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, had done “everything humanly possible” for a free, fair, credible and peaceful vote on...
View ArticleSunderland sack manager, Gus Poyet
Sunderland have sacked manager Gus Poyet after a run of just one victory in 12 Premier League games. The Black Cats are one point above the relegation zone after Saturday’s 4-0 home defeat by Aston...
View ArticleCard Reader will eliminate rigging, INEC insists
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has once again expressed confidence that the card reader technology will guard against any chances of rigging the forthcoming elections in Nigeria....
View ArticleResearchers urge tobacco-free world by 2040
Leading public health researchers are calling for the sale of tobacco to be phased out by 2040. Writing in the British journal The Lancet, advocates say a tobacco-free world — where less than 5 percent...
View Article‘Oba of Benin indisposed’
After several weeks of speculation about the health of the Oba of Benin, Omo N’ Oba Erediauwa, the Palace has announced that he was indisposed and as such would not engage in any public engagement for...
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