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A bloody communal clash between the people of Isu clan in Arochukwu Local Government Area of Abia State and their neighbours from Utuma in Biase Local Government Area of Cross River State is feared to have left 10 persons dead and scores of houses reportedly set ablaze. The bloody clash …

Buhari.. The United States Department of State has again issued a damning assessment of Nigeria under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari in its 2017 Country Report on Human Rights released last Friday in Washington D.C. In the 48-page report posted on the website of the State Department, the U.S. …

The Nigerian Breweries has on Monday at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) led the gainers’ table, gaining N3.60 to close at N129.70 per share . The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports  that Forte Oil followed with a gain of N1.85 to close at N39.50, while GlaxosmithKline added N1.70 to close …

UBA GMD/CEO, Mr. Kennedy Uzoka United Bank for Africa (UBA), on Monday endorsed the payment of N22.23 billion final dividend declared by the board for the financial year ended Dec. 31, 2017. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the shareholders gave the approval at the bank’s 56th Annual …

Peter Nwaboshi The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested the lawmaker representing Delta-North Senatorial District, Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, for an alleged fraud of N6bn. The EFCC spokesman, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, confirmed this to our correspondent on the telephone on Monday. “The senator is currently in our custody. He was …

Melaye Spokesman of embattled senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Gideon Ayodele, has reportedly claimed that his principal, who was arrested on Monday morning, has been released. Ayodele claimed the senator was left off Immigration operatives’ hook after a stand-off that lasted about two and a …

Melaye The Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS, has explained why Senator Dino Melaye representing Kogi West was on Monday morning arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. Spokesman of the Service, Mr Sunday James told the News Agency of Nigeria that Melaye was arrested by Immigration officials “based on instructions”. …

The Presidency has described the heaps of abuses on President Muhammadu Buhari as a fallout of the high expectations of Nigerians. The Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, Malam Garba Shehu, stated this in an opinion piece on Sunday. In the piece, which is published elsewhere …

More and more support is coming the way of Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan, the immediate past governor of Delta State who is gearing up to represent Delta South Senatorial District in the upper legislative chamber of the National Assembly. A group, Ijaw Liberation Movement (ILM) in Ijaw land, one of …

It was another day of honour – although posthumous – for Chief Ganiyu Oyesola Fawehinmi (SAN), who died nine years ago. Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode unveiled a 44-foot statue of the legal luminary at the ‘Liberty Park’, in Ojota to “symbolise the phenomenon that the rights activist represented in …