• Schools close, hotels, worship centres, markets beef up security BY MARTIN DURU In a swift response to the terror alert by the United States, many schools in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), mostly private, basic and secondary schools, have temporarily closed their gates against the students. Similarly, many worshipContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The United States Coast Guard, USCG, through Captain Brian Lisko of the US Department of State has commended the efforts of the Nigerian Government to suppress criminality in Nigeria’s maritime domain and by extension the Gulf of Guinea. Capt. Brian Lisko who stated this while on a fact finding visit to the ManagementContinue Reading
BY ADOLPHUS DURU The National Drug Law and Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has intercepted two ladies and two men wanted in connection with over 16,000 kilograms (16 tons) of illicit drugs in Lagos, Abuja, and Netherlands. In Lagos, anti-narcotics officers who have been on the trail of 48-year-old Aro Aderinde, forContinue Reading
BY JAMES AKINOLA A yet-to-be-identified man has been captured in a viral video jumping into a river in Lagos State after he was reportedly accused of stealing. Frontline Reporters gathered that the man took his life on Saturday night at the Idumota Bridge, Lagos Island. A Facebook user, Ngozi Blessing,Continue Reading
BY GODDY OBINWA The Peoples Democratic Party on Sunday exchanged words with the All Progressives Congress over the manifestoes of their respective Presidential candidates, Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu. While the PDP asked the ruling party and its candidate to explain how they intended to do away with subsidy withoutContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Kanwan Katsina District Head of Ketare in Kankara Local Government Area Alhaji Usman Bello Kankara has called on working journalists in Katsina State to engage into sporting activities to keep fit and healthy. Alhaji Usman Bello was peaking when the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Katsina StateContinue Reading
■ As 83,000 Nigerians travelled out with dependants BY FRONTLINE REPORTERS Thirty years ago, in July 1992, Joseph Ugochukwu from Imo State, who does not want to be identified by his real name, was denied visa by the United States Embassy. Back then No. 2, Eleke Crescent, Victoria Island, was theContinue Reading
…As Atiku begins tour of impacted states BY GODWIN OBI Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party and former governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi, who visited Bayelsa State to condole with flood victims in the state over the ravaging flood across the state, has called on the Federal GovernmentContinue Reading
. BY MARTINS DURU Cracks in the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) were visible last week in the ranks of the religious organisation. It had to do with CAN’s position on overt partisanship and the same-faith presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC). But the leadership of the apexContinue Reading
. BY GODWIN OBI THE Lagos State Government on Friday reconstituted and inaugurated Apapa Special Traffic Management Team set up to effectively tackle gridlock in Mile 2/Tincan and its environs. The Special Adviser to the Governor on Transportation, who is also the Chairman of the Team, Sola Giwa, said theContinue Reading