By NATHAL ABBEY in Yenagoa As Nigeria marked World Food Safety Day 2025, leading civil society organisations have renewed calls for the Federal Government to go beyond a moratorium and impose a total ...

Renaissance EnergyRenaissance Africa Energy and the Bayelsa State Government have launched a major reforestation campaign aimed at restoring degraded sections of the Taylor Creek Forest Reserve. The ...

Muslim holidayAs Muslim faithful prepare to mark the 2025 Eid el-Kabir celebration, the Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) in charge of Zone 5, Salma Dogo-Garba, has ordered the strategic ...

Biafran dayStreets in most city centres of Eastern Nigeria on Friday remained deserted as residents observed a sit-at-home order by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in remembrance of the Biafran ...

Ritual killingsThe breaking point came with the rescue of a 13-year-old girl who had been thrown into one of the pits. Her father had taken her to fetch firewood when they were intercepted by men ...

When Nigerians quip that “Nigeria can happen to anybody,” it is often shrugged off as a cliché. But beneath that phrase lies a deep and bitter truth, a chilling reality that becomes more apparent when ...

Akwa Ibom State Commissioner for Special Duties and Ibom Deep Seaport, Ini Ememobong, says the Eno administration is unrelenting in its fight to bring Ibom Deep Seaport and Ibom Industrial City to ...

Cocoa business in Cross River stateComplicating the matter further is the ownership status of the disputed 32 hectares of cocoa plots. Initially ceded to Chief Ogar Assam’s family, the Cross River ...

Corruption in Ikono Local councilA political storm is brewing in Ikono Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, where twelve councillors have formally petitioned the state House of Assembly over ...

Testimonies of the sacrificial lifestyle of Pope Francis who died on April 21 have posed huge challenges to mankind, especially religious and political leaders across the globe. Francis, who was ...

Delta defectionsWhile Onokpasa is wishing Governor Oborevwori well, he does not think that his defection to APC is adding value to the party. “I don’t think it adds value to our party or it adds value ...

Palm estate disputeA violent confrontation over the illegal harvesting of palm fruits from a commercial plantation in Mfamosing has left two people dead and several others displaced, raising fresh ...