CSO accuses NDDC boss of projects diversion
Adelani Adepegba, Abuja A Civil Society Organisation, Bayelsa Patriotic Watch has accused the Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Mr. Nsima Ekere, of diverting vital projects...
View ArticleOsinbajo inaugurates Edo fertiliser plant
Alexander Okere, Benin Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has inaugurated the Edo State Fertiliser and Chemical Company Limited in Auchi, Estako West Local Government Area of the state. Osinbajo was...
View ArticleImo leaders ask Buhari to probe Owerri killings
Fidelis Soriwei, Abuja Leaders of Imo State have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to institute a commission of inquiry into the killing of four traders by security operatives during the demolition...
View ArticleLagos CJ swears in 38 new customary court judges
In a bid to bring the administration of justice closer to people of Lagos, the Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Olufunmilayo Atilade, on Tuesday swore-in 38 Customary Court judges, warning them to...
View ArticleStrike: ASUU boycotts meeting with FG
Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, on Tuesday, were absent at a meeting called at the instance of the Federal Government over the lingering industrial action in universities. The...
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Melania Trump wear stilettos to visit storm-ravaged Texas
First Lady Melania Trump is making waves … for her flood fashion. The former model is always elegantly turned out and perfectly coiffed, and Tuesday was no exception as she left the White House with...
View ArticleMorocco arrests two over Catalonia attacks
Spain’s Interior Minister Juan Ignacio Zoido, visiting his Moroccan counterpart Tuesday, said Rabat had arrested two men linked to deadly twin attacks in Catalonia. “Thanks to permanent contact and...
View ArticleThree risk imprisonment over theft of baby food
A couple, Austin Nwankwo and Ijeoma Nwankwo and a 47-year-old man, Chigozie Nwankwo, were on Tuesday brought before an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, for allegedly breaking into a store...
View ArticleKidnappings: Monarch begs Navy to impose curfew on waterways
Simon Utebor, Yenagoa The immediate past Chairman of Bayelsa State Traditional Rulers Council, King Joshua Igbagara, has appealed to the Nigerian Navy to impose a curfew from 7:00pm to 6:00am to check...
View Article[Updated] Evans N300m damages suit: Police stall judgment with fresh application
A fresh application by the Nigeria Police on Tuesday stalled judgment on the N300m fundamental rights suit filed by an alleged kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, a.k.a Evans, at a Federal High Court,...
View ArticleTrump arrives in Texas to review Harvey damage
US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania arrived in Texas on Tuesday to review the deadly devastation wrought by monster storm Harvey. Trump landed in the coastal town of Corpus Christi which...
View ArticleFighting ‘Islamist terror’ is France’s top foreign priority, Macron says
Fighting “Islamist terrorism” is France’s top foreign policy priority, President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday, vowing to make his country a leading power in an unstable, increasingly polarised world....
View ArticleBuhari mourns Kanti-Bello, commiserates with family
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja condoled with the Kanti-Bello family as well as the government and people of Katsina State on the death of Sen. Mahmud Kanti-Bello. President Buhari, in a...
View ArticleEight killed, Seven others injured in Delta auto crash
Ovie Okpare, Warri An accident involving a commercial bus travelling on the Benin-Asaba Expressway on Tuesday has reportedly claimed no fewer than eight passengers’ lives near Agbor in Delta State. The...
View ArticleGovernment begins hunt for porn users
Ugandan Ethics Minister, Simon Lokodo, said on Tuesday that a committee to eradicate pornography in the country has started work. Lokodo said that the government blamed sexually explicit materials for...
View ArticleBREAKING: North Korea fired medium-range missile – Pentagon
The ballistic missile that North Korea fired over Japan Tuesday was a medium-range rocket that did not threaten US territory, the Pentagon said. “Initial assessment indicates the launch of an...
View ArticleSaudi bans 400,000 pilgrims from entering Mecca
Saudi Arabia has banned more than 400,000 illegal pilgrims from entering Mecca for not having Hajj permits, Saudi Press Agency reported on Tuesday. This was highlighted by the interior ministry during...
View ArticleIceland to deport Nigerian family seeking asylum
The Immigration and Asylum appeals board in Iceland has denied the appeal of Nigerian couple Sunday Iserian and Joy Lucky, and their eight year old daughter to stay in Iceland. Mbl.Is reports that the...
View ArticleFG owes NDDC N1.8trn, commission’s public affairs official claims
The Federal Government is said to be owing the Niger Delta Development Commission the sum of N1.8trn since its inception 17 years ago. Head, Media and Public Affairs, Mr. Ibitoye Abosede, disclosed...
View ArticleTexas storm Harvey breaks historic rainfall record
Hurricane Harvey has set what forecasters believe is a new rainfall record for the continental United States, officials said Tuesday. Harvey, swirling for the past few days off Texas and Louisiana — at...
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