The Abia State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that it would not shy away from poaching members from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state as it intensifies efforts to increase its membership strength. The Abia APC specifically said that the party was targeting upwards of registering a million […]

A three-month-old baby narrowly escaped death when a fire outbreak razed about 15 rooms of makeshift structures on Batcha Estate, along Timothy Lane in the Rumuola area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State. This occurred barely 24-hours after a midnight inferno consumed goods and property worth millions of naira at the Timber Market in the Marine […]

A five-man gang yesterday kidnapped a man and his brother-in-law at Gbazango Extension, Kubwa in Bwari Area Council, Abuja. The armed men also shot three vigilante members, who attempted to foil the operation. An eyewitness said that the police at Byazhin Station responded late to distress calls as they only arrived at the scene after […]

Kano State Government has shut down 10 boarding schools in the outskirts of the metropolis. The state Commissioner for Education, Muhammad Sunusi Kiru, disclosed this in a short audio message over the radio stations in the state yesterday night. The Education Commissioner said the closure became necessary due to the rising number of abductions of […]

Allegations and denials are trailing an alleged attempted arrest of non-state actor, Sunday Igboho by a combined team of Police, Army and Directorate of Security Services (DSS) along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway yesterday. All hell was said to have broken out along the way when a joint team of soldiers, men of the Department of Security Services […]

THE National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Uche Secondus, has urged the All Progressives Congress to face governance and stop trying to poach PDP members. Secondus gave the advice while speaking to newsmen after he led members of the PDP National Working Committee to a closed-door meeting with the former Minister of Aviation, Chief […]

The Delta State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has faulted the concession of the Asaba Airport by the state government. Governor Ifeanyi Okowa had on Tuesday signed a 30-year concession with a consortium. The consortium is expected to inject N28bn into the airport within the period. However, the APC, in a statement signed by […]

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday dismissed the second bail request filed by the former chairman of the Pension Reform Taskforce Team, Abulrasheed Maina, saying the application lacked merit. He is to remain in prison throughout his trial for the alleged N2bn fraud charges filed against him by the Federal Government. Maina, who […]

Some gunmen suspected to be bandits have abducted over 300 schoolgirls at Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe in the Talata-Mafara Local Government Area of Zamfara State. A staff of the school, who begged for anonymity,  said the bandits arrived in the school around 1am on Friday with Hilux vehicles and motorcycles and forcefully evacuated the […]

The federal government plans to hire an asset manager for its new Infrastructure Development Company (Infraco), designed to raise as much as N15 trillion ($36.7 billion) for infrastructural projects and to accelerate growth. President Muhammadu Buhari about a fortnight ago, had approved the establishment of the Infraco, a Public-Private Partnership-styled infrastructure company with an initial […]