•The protesters at Abuja airport Many top government officials, their armed escorts, business guests and hundreds of other Nigerians have been prevented from entering the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja. As of 9.15 am when our correspondent approached the vicinity of the Airport, scores of vehicles carrying stranded air passengers r...
•Prof. Omogbai I am extremely delighted that a day has come for me to tell in a few words, the contributions of Prof. Omogbai to my academic growth. It was in my first undergraduate lecture in Pharmacology in 1988, that my class was told of a certain young and superbly intelligent lecturer who was away […]
•Tunji Disu The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, has appointed Tunji Disu as the new Commissioner of Police in Rivers State. The IGP also redeployed Nwonyi Emeka from Rivers State to the Force Headquarters in Abuja. The redeployments were announced in a statement by Force spokesman, Muyiwa Adejobi, this morning. The IGP als...
•Emefiele Detained former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, yesterday arrived his Abuja home, after being released on bail by an Abuja High Court. He has spent 151 days in the custody of security agencies, reports Vanguard. A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, sitting at Maitama, has […]
•Pa Ayo Adebanjo The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has decried the rate of insecurity in some parts of the country as a result of the attacks by some armed Fulani herdsmen on farmers. The group noted that the criminal activities of the bandits against farmers raised the need for the creation of state police to […]...
A pastor of a new generation church in the Ajangbadi area of Lagos State broke down in tears as he narrates how his tenant, one Godwin, defiled and impregnated his 16- year-old daughter. The pastor gave the narrative at an Ikeja Sexual Offence and Domestic Violence Court, reports Daily Trust. According to the pastor, the […]
Another batch of stranded 161 Nigerians has been repatriated back from Tripoli, Libya. They arrived in the country through the cargo section of Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, reports Nigerian Tribune. The Nigerians were flown into the country aboard Al Buraq Air with registration number 5A-DMG and flight number BRQ189/07.TSINK....
Nigeria’s alignment with the current economic reality, coupled with rising inflation, slow growth, floating of exchange rate and volatility in global oil prices, may have exposed the fragility of her economic model and affected its global trade standing. While trade presents one vital but often untapped pathway to poverty reduction, through it...
•Bode George Former national vice chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George, has expressed fears that the party may go the way of the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) if it does not address the issues that led to the departure of the presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi. […]
Despite the claim by the federal governÂment that it has commenced the payment of some of the foreign airlines’ trapped funds in the country, it can be said authoritatively that no carrier has received any amount of money from the government. It can also be said that the total trapped fund of foreign airlines in […]

