THERE was palpable fear in Ajah area of Lagos State at the weekend as policemen from the state police command engaged a gang of heavily armed robbers in a heavy shootout in a foiled robbery attempt. A gang of about … read more
Lagos state government on Friday said no fewer than 3.9 million children, aged between one day and five years, are expected to be immunized during a integrated measles campaign exercise, according to Jide Idris, state commissioner for health. The PM … read more
WITH AN INEVITABILITY THAT PASSES FOR REASON or progress in most parts of Africa, the Nigerian Supreme Court has decided that last year’s election of President Umaru Yar’Adua will be allowed to stand. Never mind that the poll was as well rigged as a Spanish … read more
Joint Task Force in Rivers State yesterday rescued five hostages from locations in Bori and Khana areas of Ogoniland. JTF had stormed the areas based on intelligence reports in the early hours of yesterday and arrested three suspects. This happened … read more
The Supreme Court upheld Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua’s 2007 election win Friday, dealing a blow to political opponents who sought to unseat him. But questions linger over the leader’s health and so far lethargic governance of Africa’s most populous nation. … read more
The presidential candidate of Nigeria’s main opposition Action Congress (AC), Atiku Abubakar, said Friday that democracy and all Nigerians were the real losers after the Supreme Court rejected his plea, and that of another opposition candidate, to nullify the 2007 … read more
The Nigerian Navy Friday arrested an unidentified man for allegedly vandalising a pipeline owned by the Nigerian subsidiary of Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell at the Oribiri flow station in Rivers state in the country’s oil producing Niger Delta region. The … read more
The World Bank, European Union (EU), and other stakeholders are in the process of conducting the 2008/2009 harmonized Nigeria living standard survey (HNLSS) as a way of providing needed data for analysis of poverty in the country, according to a … read more
Former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, made a surprise visit to the Abuja headquarters of the anti-graft agency on Thursday In what is apparently a new twist to his travails, the former EFCC boss, … read more
THE Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has condemned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for adopting what he considered as a discretionary method in the fight against corruption. Amaechi has meanwhile pledged to continue to pursue programmes and … read more