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You are under Baale of Sasa, Ibadan traditional rulers tell Seriki Hausawa

You are under Baale of Sasa, Ibadan traditional rulers tell Seriki Hausawa

…as Yoruba traders protest relocation of market by Makinde Following the recent ethnic crisis that ravaged the Sasa community of Ibadan, Oyo State capital, which left many dead, members of the traditional council in Ibadanland…

NDDC:  Senator Okon berates Akpabio

NDDC: Senator Okon berates Akpabio

The pioneer National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Anietie Okon has berated the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio for alleged lack of concern for the well-being of people…

Insecurity: Niger shuts down all secondary schools

Insecurity: Niger shuts down all secondary schools

Following the incessant security challenges it is facing, the Niger State government has ordered the closure of all secondary schools for two weeks. Our Correspondent reliably learnt that the government’s decision was to allow for…

Niger Delta youth leaders back reforms in amnesty programme office

Niger Delta youth leaders back reforms in amnesty programme office

Youth leaders from the Niger Delta region have commended Col Milad Dixon Dikio (rtd) the Interim Administrator Presidential Amnesty Programme for resisting the pressure to pay desperate and evil contractors for unverified projects adding that…

Gunmen abduct 2 students, lecturer in Edo

Gunmen abduct 2 students, lecturer in Edo

Gunmen on Wednesday night stormed the National Institute of Construction Technology, Uromi, Esan North East Local Government Area of the Edo State and abducted two students and a lecturer. What led to the kidnap was…

Ebonyi offers deceased policemen families N4m

Ebonyi offers deceased policemen families N4m

Ebonyi State government has given N1million each to families of four policemen, who died in a ghastly motor accident while returning from Effium, Ohaukwu Local Government Area of the state where they were deployed to…

Houses, property burnt in Delta tanker explosion

Houses, property burnt in Delta tanker explosion

Property and other valuables believed to worth millions of naira were burnt yesterday when a fuel tanker crashed and exploded in Delta State. The incident occurred on the ever-busy Asaba-Agbor-Onitsha Expressway at Ekwuoma town in…

‘Involve private security firms in tackling insecurity’

‘Involve private security firms in tackling insecurity’

Federal Government has been advised to give private security companies the legal right to complement the efforts of other security agencies to tackle insecurity bedeviling the country. The Managing Director of Angels Assurance Security Company,…

One killed, 18 abducted in Niger community

One killed, 18 abducted in Niger community

Armed men have attacked the Kapana community in Munya Local Government Area, killed one person and ab-ducted 18 others. The bandits, who invaded the community on Tuesday night, shot sporadically to scare the villagers. They…

Tanker drivers protest colleagues’ murder, block Benin-Lagos Expressway

Tanker drivers protest colleagues’ murder, block Benin-Lagos Expressway

Articulated tanker drivers yesterday blocked the ever-busy Benin- Lagos Expressway at Ofosu in Edo State over the death of two of their colleagues in the hands of suspected Fulani herdsmen. The gunmen robbed and killed…