Sunday, 19 May, 2024

Month: May 2021


Gunmen have attacked policemen in a checkpoint along Otulu Akwukwu- Igbo road in Aniocha North, Delta State and killed one policeman, The Nation has learnt. The gunmen also set a police van ablaze during the attack. The Nation gathered the Read more…


We are for a free, just, equitable Nigeria – Dickson Elder statesman Edwin Clark has described the statement credited to President Muhammadu Buhari dismissing the ban on open grazing by Southern governors in their respective states at their recent meeting Read more…


Ex-Governor of Ogun State, Chief Olusegun Osoba, on Wednesday, warned Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, to weigh his words carefully so as not contradict the position of his principal, Major General Muhammadu Buhari Read more…


The Swiss government has said it will abandon seven years of negotiations for a framework agreement with the EU, arguing Brussels had not met its conditions for the deal, which would have simplified relations between the pair. Switzerland’s Federal Council, Read more…


Four policemen were killed in the early hours of Tuesday when unknown gunmen attacked a police station at Iwollo, Ezeagu local government area of Enugu State. LEADERSHIP reports that the attack took place less than two weeks after the Inspector General Read more…


The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ebonyi State has described as most insensitive, the report credited to the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Mr Fred Udeogu, that the party will reclaim the state during the Read more…


Air Peace has announced the commencement of Ilorin flights from Lagos and Abuja and has also increased its Accra flight frequency. Spokesperson of the airline, Stanley Olisa, who disclosed this to journalists on Monday, stated that the airline is set to Read more…


The Coalition of Northern Groups has asked the Federal Government to take immediate steps to evacuate all herdsmen currently in the South back to the north. This, the group said, was in the light of the unfolding scenario set by Read more…


The Ebonyi State Police Command has said the man killed in an explosion, on Tuesday, in Afikpo, in the Afikpo North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, was not a suicide bomber. The spokesperson of the Police in the state, Read more…


After winning a landmark ruling against the UK’s GCHQ spy agency, activist groups praised former NSA contractor Edward Snowden for blowing the lid off the UK’s surveillance regime. Activists called yet again for his pardoning. In a ruling issued on Read more…


By Ifeoma Ejiofor The leading governorship aspirant in the Anambra State November 6 governorship election, ChiefRommy Okoli, Akajiugo Ukpor & Ozioma Nnewi (The Messenger) says his administration will conduct local government area election one year after his Inuaguration. Chief Okoli, Read more…


A virus even more transmissible and fatal than Covid-19 will lead the world into the next pandemic, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) has said, noting the “evolutionary certainty” of such an occurrence. “Make no mistake, this will Read more…