The EFCC has arrested a 33-year-old man, Gift Onyegam, for defrauding a blind teacher, Mrs. Mary Rose Ihekanacho of N830, 000. The victim was deceived through calls purportedly by a former acquaintance, Patrick Abah, a fellow she met during her National Youth Service orientation in 2009, into making the payments to enable her secure employment for her son with Shell Petroleum Company in Port Harcourt. The s ...

Nigeria's militant Islamist group Boko Haram has abducted women and children in response to the arrest of its members' wives and children, it says. Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau released a video, showing women and children purportedly being held. If confirmed, these would be the first Nigerians taken hostage by Boko Haram. In the video, Mr Shekau also said the group was behind two recent attacks in the ...

Former Vice President and founder of American University of Nigeria, Yola (AUN), Atiku Abubakar and American Ambassador to Nigeria, Ambassador Terence P. McCulley at the 2013 AUN graduation dinner in Yola, Adamawa State weekend. A cross section of graduates at the 2013 graduation ceremony of the American University of Nigeria, Yola (AUN) in Yola, Adamawa State weekend   ...

President Goodluck Jonathan has deplored yesterday’s attack by armed terrorists on Bama, Borno State which claimed scores of lives.Reports said 55 people were killed in the attacks. President Jonathan believes that the continuation of such callous and wanton attacks of innocent Nigerians, government facilities and security formations flies in the face of ongoing efforts to establish a workable framework for ...

Funeral rites for the former Managing Director and Chief Executive of Lowe Lintas Mr Kevin Amaechi would commence on May 17 with a service of songs at his Surulere residence following his passage on April 27 at the age of 66 years. Amaechi passed on at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital Lagos, according to a statement by his family signed by his eldest daughter Mrs. Tessy Amaechi-Adebayo. Kevin Onyeali ...

By Elvis Iyorngurum Change can come in the most unexpected ways. For Nigeria’s literary arts that change may have come through the Abuja Writers’ Forum April flag off of a creative writing school featuring a workshop spread over the four-weekends that covered the three genres of writing; fiction, poetry and drama, with intensive lecturing on the basic foundations and processes of good creative writing. The ...

                                                                                     A typical accident scene in Lokoja A Government House Ambulance was on Sunday involved in an accident along  Ganaja road within Lokoja, the Kogi state capital. A statement by Mr Jacob Edi, special adviser on media and strategy to Governor Idris Wada said the ambulance which was coming into the state capital, Lokoja, from th ...

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has described the death of the Vanguard newspaper's veteran columnist, Mr. Pini Jason Onyegbadue, as another "haemorrhage of distinguished professionals that has befallen the country at large and journalism in particular." In a statement issued on his behalf by his media office in Abuja on Sunday, the former Vice President said the late columnist had distinguished himsel ...

Former Governor of Abia State and Publisher of Sun newspaper, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, has expressed deep sorrow over the death of prominent columnist with the Vanguard newspaper, Pini Jason Onyegbaduo. Kalu, in a statement by his Special Adviser, Oyekunle Oyewumi, said that Onyegbaduo, even in the season when a lot of men of integrity were losing their heads, kept his and this reflected in his writings. He said ...

Freedom of the Press was exceedingly sought-after in Nigeria, leading to the passage of the Freedom of Information (FoI) into law. Yet, in many quarters, it is believed that there is continuous enslavement of press’s freedom by the authorities. And this is endangering our democracy, because it warps information about the political leaders. A former governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu presented an ins ...