Unless information technology, education, employment creation were given urgent attention in governance, the fight against terrorism and other acts of insecurity may be long-drawn, the President of Nigerian Computer Society, NCS, Sir. Demola …

Use infotech to tackle insecurity, NCS urges FG

No fewer than eight persons were feared dead, yesterday, in an auto crash involving a Mitsubishi commercial bus and a tipper lorry at the Ideani end of Nnobi-Ideani-Ojoto-Umuoji-Nkpor road in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State.

8 die, 8 injured in Anambra auto crash

Last week in Lagos when stakeholders in the Nigerian telecoms industry gathered to discuss the draft lawful interception of communications regulations, leading voices contended that except the policy as recently released by the Nigerian …

Mixed reactions greet draft wiretap law at forum in Lagos

UGHELLI—PRESIDENT of Urhobo Democratic Assembly, UDA, Chief Arthur Akpowowo, has charged the Urhobo nation to desist from embracing opposition parties and give their unflinching support to the ruling political party in Delta State.

Urhobo urged to stop supporting opposition parties

Police in Bayelsa State have announced the prosecution of a 35-year-old man, Nathaniel Elaweremi, for allegedly raping a teenager.

35-yr-old, cobbler nabbed over rape

THE Ijaw in the nine Niger Delta States rose from a meeting in Ondo State and asked President Goodluck Jonathan to exercise his constitutional right of seeking re-election in 2015 and should not be intimidated.

2015: Ijaw back Jonathan for second term

ACTING Executive Secretary, Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC, Prof. Charles Onocha, said in Asaba, Delta State, yesterday, that specific interventions geared towards broadening access and ensuring functional learning for Nigerian citizens …

Nigeria’s out-of-school children estimated at 10 million – UBEC

AHEAD of the second anniversary of the present federal administration, President Goodluck Jonathan has given a marching order to all Federal ministries, departments and agencies to complete ongoing and abandoned projects that are viable and of …

Jonathan orders MDAs to complete on-going projects

Policemen at-tached to Area B Command, Apapa, Lagos, have arrested four persons, among them three ‘Managing Directors,’ who allegedly specialised in defrauding unsuspecting petroleum dealers.

4 nabbed over N75m petroleum product fraud

BISHOPS in the Niger Delta region have supported the state of emergency declared by President Goodluck Jonathan in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states, but former national chairman of the Traditional Rulers for Oil Minerals Producing Communities of …

N-Delta bishops back Jonathan on state of emergency

In Nigeria, insurance has never been a popular buy. A common answer being given by the average Nigerians on why he will not buy insurance has always been “Insurance don’t pay claims.”

Read and understand your insurance policy document

Prof. Chinua Achebe was a literary giant who used the power of erudition to project persuasive and powerful political points. Little is known today of the sharp disagreement between the late Prof. Albert Chinualumogu Achebe and the late Senator …

Achebe: The politics, and persuasions of a prolific writer