Benin explodes for Glo Slide ‘n’ Bounce
Edo stateBENIN City, home of authentic arts and culture, at the weekend exploded in a snowball of energetic lyrics as Nigeria’s most entertaining musicians took the centre stage to perform at the Glo...
View ArticleRotary, Army plan training to boost peaceful coexistence, conflict resolution...
Peace sign. Image source WikimediaROTARY International, District 9125 Nigeria, has joined the global community to celebrate the 2015 International Peace Day by calling for greater tolerance among the...
View ArticleFUPRE unveils prototype Nigerian car
FUPRE carBARELY five months after the Federal University of Petroleum Resources (FUPRE), Effurun, Delta State, inaugurated a team of engineering students from the university to build a sizeable...
View ArticlePolice arrest 112 commercial sex workers, others in Cross River
ABOUT 112 commercial sex workers and their partners were this week arrested by the Cross River State Police Command. Out of this number, 54 are females while 58 of them are their male partners or...
View ArticleEid Kabir is here again!
IT comes by different names, the most popular being eid adha and eid kabir. It is easily the biggest festival in the Islamic calendar and often symbolises the end of the Hajj exercise and the...
View ArticleNDE partners FOFA on skills acquisition, capacity building for Imo youths
Imo state Governor, OkorochaTHE National Directorate of Employment (NDE), in Imo State and Forward Africa (FOFA), a Non- Profit Development Organization (NPDO), have begun the processes of partnership...
View Article300 residents sacked as River Benue overflows, submerges houses
OVER three hundred residents of Makurdi metropolis and environs were sacked from their homes as River Benue overflowed its bank following release of large quantities of water from the Lagdo Dam in the...
View ArticleNkem Owoh lights up Gaurapad Charities opening in Port Harcourt
Mr. Nkem Owoh and Mr. Bolaji Rosiji flanked by guests at the recent opening of Gaurapad Charities THE city of Port-Harcourt was recently agog as the popular actor, Nkem Owoh, (aka Osofia) stormed the...
View ArticleDon’t Assess Buhari Yet, Says PDP BoT scribe
Senator Walid Jibrin THE Secretary of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Walid Jibrin, has said 100 days of the present administration in office is not enough...
View ArticleDon’t Politicise HID’s Death, Fayose Urges
Fayose The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose was among eminent personalities who called at the late Madam Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo’s Ikenne, Ogun State country home to condole with the family...
View ArticleArmy seizes eight boats, 2.3m litres of stolen diesel
Oil Bunkering TROOPS of Operation Pulo Shield (OPS) of the Nigerian Army in Port Harcourt have seized 2.3 million litres of allegedly stolen diesel worth N3.45 million from an illegal bunker site in...
View ArticleCorps member donates borehole, offers free medicare to IDPs
IDP Chairman pumping the borehole. AS part of her community development project, a Batch C 2015 corps member, Ugwu Chinemerem Juliet, with State Code: FCT/14C/0652, has donated a community water...
View Article‘Our children must not die in vain’
Some of the deceased students Parents of the 11 students of Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU) crushed by truck in June, cry out for justice THREE months after 11 students of the Olabisi Onabanjo...
View ArticlePoliceman to die by hanging over killing of graduate
Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase THE Rivers State High Court presided over by Justice Adolphus Enebeli has sentenced a policeman, Inspector Samuel Timothy, to death by hanging for shooting...
View ArticleCourt separates pastor’s 15-year-old marriage over wife’s public nagging
AN Akure Customary Court yesterday separated the 15-year-old marriage of Pastor Tunde Adekunle with his wife, Agbeke Adekunle over her alleged public nagging after the union had produced four children....
View ArticleWoman, driver in police net for dumping grandchild’s body
Nigerian Police. A GRANDMOTHER, whose identity is yet to be known, and a driver simply identified as Ade are in police net for allegedly dumping the body of a seven-year-old-girl, Iyadun Ajayi, at...
View ArticleJournalists laud FG over Nigeria’s polio-free status
MEMBERS of Journalists Initiatives on Immunisation Against Polio (JAP) have congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari over the nation’s exit from list of polio endemic countries. JAP also called for...
View ArticleBuhari seeks NASS approval of $200m loan for Lagos State
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday sought the approval of the House of Representatives to obtain 200 million U.S dollars loan from the World Bank for Lagos State. This is contained in a letter to...
View ArticleHunting the hunters…
The wanted NDLEA agents PHOTO: DAILY POST• NDLEA anti-narcotics officials abscond with seized drugs TWO officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Daniel Goska, a Superintendent of...
View ArticleExperts counsel dog meat consumers, rearers on proper treatment
Dogs undergoing vaccinationDOG meat consumers have been counselled to be wary of the type of dogs they eat since they stand the risk of being infected with rabies if they eat unvaccinated dogs. They...
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