Niger Delta ex-agitators have applauded  the Interim Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Col. Milland Dixon Dikio (retd) for initiating a three-day Basic Orientation Course (BOC) for the novel Train, Employ and Mentor (TEM) model designed to transform them into entrepreneurs. The leaders described the course, which commenced on Wednesday... Read more

  Intending voters who flocked in their large numbers in the FESTAC area of Lagos were prevented from exercising the right to register for Nigeria’s forthcoming elections by staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) with claim that there were no machines available to capture the data of... Read more

By  Magnus Aluma Former chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP in Ebonyi State and senator representing Ebonyi Central at the National Assembly, Obinna Ogba has won the party’s rescheduled gubernatorial primary election in the State. Ogba polled a total of 253 votes to defeat his closest rival, Edwin... Read more

Buy Magnus Aluma    The Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC, Ebonyi state Command has arrested an electricity Cable Vandal suspect, at Amachi in Izzi Local Government Area of the State.     Parading the suspect before news men in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi state capital, the Commandant of... Read more

Buy Magnus Aluma Ebonyi State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has conducted another round of primary elections for her Senatorial, House of Representatives and state House of Assembly aspirants. The election which took place amidst heavy security presence at the party’s state secretariat, was a repeat of... Read more

    .Secret ID cards link Nigerian Army to kidnappers, criminals terrorising South-East   The discovery of secret identification cards allegedly issued to civilians of Fulani ethnic stock by the Nigerian Army has stoked apprehension in the country’s troubled South-East region One of the ID Cards being circulated online... Read more

By  Magnus  Aluma Nigeria’s former Deputy Senate President and gubernatorial contender in Enugu State on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party, Ike Ekweremadu has officially bowed out of the race. A statement signed by Senator Ekweremadu and made available to newsmen in Enugu, indicates that his decision to... Read more

Nigeria and 28 other countries on Wednesday called for an international response to challenges posed by piracy and crude oil theft in the Gulf of Guinea (GoG) and in the African continent. The call was made as part of resolutions reached at the end of a two-day International Maritime... Read more