There was panic in Nekede community, Owerri, Imo State, when a giant hyena escaped from the Imo State Zoological Garden and Wildlife Park. The animal was recaptured by wildlife experts about six hours later. General Manager of the park Francis Abioye confirmed this yesterday. Abioye, who led the recapture, said there nobody died as the […]

Member, Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Wisdom Fifa (left); House of Representatives member representing Yenagoa/Kolokuma-Opokuma Federal Constituency, Prof. Steve Azaiki; Secretary to State Government, Kemela Okara; Governor Henry Seriake Dickson; and House of Representatives member, Francis Agbo, during the inauguration of the Bayelsa International Airport and Chief DSP Alamieyeseigha Airport Road at Amassoma…yesterday. With a […]

• TETFund clarifies late submission of three years’ accounts The House of Representatives has flayed the Petroleum Product Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) for allegedly concealing its internally generated revenue (IGR) between 2014 and 2019. The green chamber expressed its anger when the agency’s General Manager Finance, Mr. Peter Joshua, failed to convincingly account for the […]

The Nigerian Academy of Science (NAS) has urged the Federal Government (FG) to declare Lassa fever a public health incident of national emergency and concern. President of NAS, Professor K. Mosto Onuoha, told journalists yesterday that in the last 50 years, Lassa fever has been occurring in perennial outbreaks in nearly all the states of […]

A Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin on Monday granted N200 million bail to the immediate past Commissioner for Finance in Kwara, Alhaji Ademola Banu. The Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had on Jan. 29 arraigned Banu and one Olarewaju Adeniyi before Justice Babangana Ashigar on a nine-count charge […]

Hundreds of women in Katsina State that were to benefit from the N10 billion Aliko Dangote Foundation (ADF) micro-grant have been ripped off, which draws the ire of Governor Aminu Masari. The women were shortchanged by those selected to distribute the monies across the 34 councils of the state. Masari warned that government would not […]

The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) on Monday increased its Lagos-Ogun Mass Transit Train Services (MTTS) to two trains daily to reduce the sufferings usually experienced by its commuters. The NRC’s District Manager, Lagos, Mr Jerry Oche, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that it was also to reduce the inadequacy the single train being […]

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) says it has neutralised some key Boko Haram Terrorists (BHTs) leaders at Alafa Yagayaga on the fringes of the Sambisa Forest in Borno. Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, who made this known in a statement on Monday in Abuja, said the operation was conducted […]

The Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government has constituted a committee, headed by President Roch Marc Christian Kabore of Burkina Faso, to study and make a full report on Nigeria’s land border closure with her neighbours. Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, confirmed this development […]

The Borno government on Sunday reopened the Maiduguri-Dikwa road, five years after it was closed as a result of the Boko Haram insurgency. NAN reports that the 86km road was closed to motorists in 2015 at the peak of Boko Haram activities in the Northern part of the state. Gov. Babagana Zulum, accompanied by the […]

The South East Governors Forum (SEGF) has promised to provide the Federal Government details of its joint security programme at the appropriate time. Gov. Dave Umahi of Ebonyi, the Chairman of the forum, disclosed this on Sunday in Enugu while briefing newsmen after a meeting. Umahi said that the forum had on July 28, 2019, […]

Consequent upon the election timetable released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the Edo gubernatorial contest this year, the factional chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, Col. David Imuse (rtd), has ruled out parallel primaries by the ruling party contrary to widespread insinuations in certain quarters. In an exclusive […]