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Governor Obaseki’s arrest of BUA staff highlights impunity, disregard for court order

The BUA group Thursday faulted governor Godwin Obaseki’s gestapo-style forceful shutdown of a mining site operated by BUA, despite a subsisting court pronouncement that the...

Baru says 4,501 trucks loaded with fuel disappeared in December with 148, 533 million litres

The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Maikanti Baru, has said that the nation lost about 148,533000 million litres of...

Airline pilot leaves cockpit, ‘slaps’ co-pilot following mid-air fight 

It is very common among us to crack jokes about what would happen if no one is flying the flight we are in....

Nigeria Police attack NAN reporter in Kaduna as Buhari declares open dry port

  Journalists in Nigeria had enjoyed some level of serenity in the execution of their professional duties without fear of intimidation, until the...

In Nigeria, U.K based journalist Daniel Elombah gives account of his arrest

I was abducted by SARS My name is Daniel Elombah, a UK based lawyer and publisher. On the 1st day of January 2018,...

Okonjo-Iweala denies making political statements, calls reports ‘fake news.

Former minister of finance Dr Ngozi Oknonjo-Iweala lashed out Thursday  at the social media, after multiple reports claimed she made some political statements....

Fr. Mbaka and the Voice of God by Reuben Abati

“I do not believe in my mind that the way things are in Nigeria, any Catholic priest has the mandate to decide which...

BREAKING NEWS: Boko Haram militia kidnap 30 woodcutters in Borno

At least 30 loggers have been abducted in Borno state by Boko Haram militia on Tuesday, villagers say in Gamboru, near the Cameroon...

2019: Buhari’s Re-Election Campaign Has Begun –  Communication Minister 

….Set to open Buhari/Osinbajo South West campaign office on Jan. 20 The re-election bid of President Muhammadu Buhari has begun ahead of potential...

Suicide bomb attack kills 14 in Borno Mosque

[dropcap]A[/dropcap]t least fourteen worshippers were killed Wednesday when a suicide bomber attacked a mosque on Nigeria’s border with Cameroon in Borno state. The...

9 Horrific Images From Herdsmen attack in Benue state show bodies and blood strewn across ground

Viewer discretion is strongly advised due to graphic contents Herdsmen’s attack on farmers in Benue state resulted in the death of at least...

Nigeria plunged into darkness after national grid shut down

[dropcap]N[/dropcap]igerians are used to the mundane inconvenience of brief, localized power outages that regularly hit the country’s aging electricity grid, but the large...

Uproar over arrests of journalists by Nigeria Police

The assault and arrest of the publisher and editor of online news outlet, Elombah.com  by the Nigerian police was met with widespread condemnation on...

We Can No Longer Sell fuel for N145 – Marketers

  The Chairman of Depot and Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (DAPMAN), Mr Dapo Abiodun, has revealed that the marketers can no longer import...

“Change or you will be changed, Rev Father Mbaka tells Buhari

Catholic priest, Rev. Ejike Mbaka, has condemned President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration in his New Year message warning that the President should change  otherwise...

Wike is making it harder to keep Rivers safe- Ameachi

  Following the new year tragedy that occurred in Rivers State where gunmen opened fire indiscriminately killing 21 people returning from church in...