Insult as treason and other Nigerian Idi Amin Dada Stories

By Festus Adedayo Two pieces of literary works – Williams Stevenson’s thriller, Ninety Minutes at Entebbe and the film, The Last King of Scotland (2006) – plot the graph of…

Three brothers steal SUV, demand N5m ransom after killing mother of five

Police operatives attached to the Intelligence Response Unit of the Nigeria Police Force have arrested three (3) suspects namely; Johnson Emmanuel – 38yrs, Gideon Emmanuel – 31yrs and Success Emmanuel…

N2.5bn Fraud: You have a Case to Answer, Court tells Kawu

A Federal High Court, Abuja, has ordered the suspended Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Ishaq Modibbo Kawu, to defend his alleged involvement in the N2.5 billion Digital Switch-Over…

CUPP: Approval of Buhari’s $28.2b loan, N27bn NASS renovation, a conspiracy against Nigerians

…Wants Lawan, Gbajabiamila removed The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has condemned the swift and secret approval without serious scrutiny of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s plan to obtain another…

Raped at 6, infected with HIV/AIDS, dies at 10, as rapist walks free

By Chinenye Vivian Seven years ago I started my housemanship at the Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia. My first posting was Paediatrics. I Love Paediatrics! I loved going to the ward.…

FMC shuts down Pathology Department over COVID-19 spread

Staff of the Pathology Department of the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Owerri may have deserted their department following the recent contracting of the COVID-19 by one of their staff. Our…

We were on the 7th floor when the 8-storey building collapsed – Survivors

The Judicial Commission of Inquiry on Lands and Related Matters has said The that the Owerri master plan was distorted in colossal proportion and that only a lionhearted governor or…

Imo Land Probe: Only the ‘lionhearted’ can recover Owerri Master Plan, says Commission

The Judicial Commission of Inquiry on Lands and Related Matters has said The that the Owerri master plan was distorted in colossal proportion and that only a lionhearted governor or…

Favouring some while frustrating others will ruin this nation, Umar tells Buhari

Colonel Abubakar Dangiwa Umar (rtd) was the military governor of Kaduna State under the General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (Rtd) military regime. Umar who is a public commentator on national issues…

Mr. President, what would the Buhari legacy be?

By Jibrin Ibrahim Today is the anniversary of President Buhari’s fifth year in power and he has three more years to go before retiring to Daura to take care of…

Community Policing: South-East Governors, IGP settle rift

Southeast Governors and other Igbo leaders, yesterday settled their rift with the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu over the modalities for Community Policing planned for the region. Chairman of…

Imo lawmaker’s thugs batter journalist

.By Jennifer John A journalist and publisher of Newsfield Magazine/Newspapers, Mr Finian Chucks was on Thursday manhandled beaten up in Owerri, the Imo State capital by men said to be…

COVID-19: 25 new cases ascribed to Imo, not resident in the state – Iwu

By Jennifer John The Imo State action Committee on Covid 19, led by Prof. Maurice Iwu has given further insight into the reported 26 new cases of Coronavirus in the…

Imo:Ihedioha’s former aide dumps PDP, may join Uzodinma in APC

Following the gale of defections that has hit the Imo state chapter of the People Democratic Party(PDP), the former Senior Special Assistant to the immediate past governor of the state,…

“Tracking Rwandan fugitive, Felicien Kabuga, was risky business”

On May 16, an 84-year-old Rwandan by the name of Felicien Kabuga was arrested from a flat in Asnieres-sur-Seine, on the outskirts of Paris. He had been on the run…