The victim in the alleged rape trial of Chief Richard Kpodo, a former Security Adviser to Ex-Governor Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa on Friday testified before a Bayelsa High Court giving vivid accounts f how she was sexually abused. The 26 year old (name withheld) testified alongside her Uncle and... Read more
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus has condemned the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to ban the use of smart phones at polling booths saying the commission is perfecting rigging formular for the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. Prince Secondus... Read more
The acting Director-General, Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC), Mr Chidi Izuwah, has said that the Ibom Deep Seaport would create more jobs and transform the Nation’s economy. In a statement made available on Tuesday by the ICRC spokesperson, Mrs Manji Yarling, Izuwah said this at the Request for Proposal... Read more
Residents along the Epie creek in Yenagoa on Wednesday lamented the impact of flooding caused by the overflow of the waters from Taylor creek, tributaries of Orashi and Niger rivers. Our reporter who visited the river side settlements quotes the residents as saying that the water levels rose above... Read more
All primary, post primary and tertiary schools in Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra have been temporarily closed down in reaction to the flood disaster in the area. The council Chairman, Mr Arinze Awogu disclosed this while inaugurating the distribution of relief materials at the council headquarters, Atani on... Read more
The Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA) has named Messrs Luca Piazza and Solomon Mudege as its observers to Thursday’s elections into the Executive Committee of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) 2018-2022. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mudege is FIFA’s Senior Manager for Development Programmes (Africa), while... Read more
President of the Republic of Liberia, Mr. George Oppong Weah has hailed Nigeria as a great and worthy ally in national development, while describing Nigerian Football as a model that he wants his country to follow. Speaking after Tuesday night’s exhibition match between the Lone Star and the... Read more
Nigeria’s Quadri Aruna and Egypt’s Dina Meshref emerged as singles champions at the 2018 ITTF African Championships concluded in Mauritius on Sunday September 9, 2018. Quadri did not drop a point from the first round (round of 64) until the final when he defeated Egypt’s Ahmed Saleh 4-1 to... Read more
Calabar—Sen. Bassey Otu has declared his intention to go back for the Southern Senatorial District of Cross River State on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). In his speech entitled “Our past, present, and hope in the Southern Senatorial district” at the State Cultural Centre, Otu reassured... Read more
From Dianabasi Effiong A Nigerian plastic-recycling company has won the maiden Shell Outstanding Achievement Prize in the 2018 Shell LiveWIRE Top Ten Innovators Awards. Bayelsa State-based De-Rabacon Plastics came tops in a competition that also saw another Nigerian firm, Alternate Energy Limited, emerge as the second runner-up... Read more
