Parents of 14 year old minor abducted in Bayelsa in August 2015 and taken to Kano where she was allegedly forced intoa marriage have berated her continued stay in Police protective custody. The Federal High Court Yenagoa, on Monday adjourned Ese Oruru’s abduction case to Dec. 8, 2016, The... Read more
Government owned primary and secondary schools in Bayelsa resumed the 2016/2017 academic session on Monday as pupils expressed delight at the resumption The resumption followed a directive from the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) to striking members. Public schools in the state delayed to resume... Read more
COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE END OF THE 2016 NATIONAL CONVENTION OF THE SPORTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA
Press Releases October 9, 2016
COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE END OF THE 2016 NATIONAL CONVENTION OF THE SPORTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (SWAN) HELD ON SEPTEMBER 29 AT THE MULTI-PURPOSE HALL OF UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN, KWARA STATE DURING THE 2ND EDITION OF THE NATIONAL YOUTH GAMES After an exhaustive deliberation on the present... Read more
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday lauded the efforts of the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun in steering the economy during such a difficult period, saying time will soon prove her right.Obasanjo, who spoke at the ongoing National Council on Finance and Economic Development (NACOFED) in Abeokuta, Ogun... Read more
From Diana Okon-Effiong, Calabar No fewer than 253, 000 signatories including forest dependent communities in Cross River state and the international community have called on Nigeria’s Federal Government to compel the state government to cancel the revocation of the traditional rights of occupancy of all the... Read more
The N350 million Lassa Fever Virology Diagnostic and Treatment Centre built by the Ebonyi State Government has been inaugurated by the Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole. Adewole, who was in company with his Agriculture counterpart, Chief Audu, Ogbeh and Ebonyi State Governor David Umahi, during the ceremony,... Read more
By Duru Lyndia Chika The 8th wonder of the world is how Nigerian President; Muhammadu Buhari managed to convince sane adults and some foreign countries that his govt is waging war against graft. Fact is, there is no war against corruption. The so called anti-graft war is one hell... Read more
By Adekoya Boladale Christiana Oluwatoyin Oluwasesin, Florence Chukwu, Abdullahi Umaru, Methodus Chimaije Emmanuel, Bridget Agbaheme and Eunice Elisha all have one thing in common; they were gruesomely murdered in cold blood by religious fanatics acting on the disguise of impulsive cerebral dysfunction termed blasphemy. For Christiana, a mother of... Read more
By Ebi B Asain By now, there’s a preponderance of evidence the Arewa Consultative Forum is made up of war mongers who has come to the tragic conclusion that the Nigerian military is their trump card to be used against the south. In line with their military calculations, president... Read more
By Reno Omokri On the 15th of August 1945, the axis nations fighting in the Pacific theater defeated imperial Japan and two weeks later, Japan formally surrendered to allied forces led by the U.S. General, Douglas McArthur, who formally accepted the signed articles of surrender. But though the U.S.... Read more
