EVANGELICAL clergyman Pastor Izuchukwu Anoloba has been apprehended by the Imo State Police Command for organising the kidnapping of Catholic priest Reverend Father Fidelis Ekemgba.

Pastor Anoloba, 35, and several others were paraded by the police as being members of a dangerous syndicate. Rabiu Hussaini, the Imo State police commissioner, said that the suspects held the priest for over seven days and made him to pay a ransom of N5m to them.

FORMER senate president Senator Joseph Wayas who presided over the National Assembly during the Second Republic has suddenly passed way at the age of 80 at his home on the Cross River State capital Calabar.

NNAMDI Kanu's lawyer Ifeanyi Ejiofor has been warned by federal high court judge Binta Nyako to stop writing letters directly to her in respect of the trial of his client as it is against the procedure of channelling such communication through the court registrar.

CHANCES that Super Eagles midfielder Joe Aribo may move to the English Premier League during the January transfer window have increased significantly after three clubs indicated that they were interested in securing his services.

SUPER Eagles head coach Gernot Rohr may not get a severance package from the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) as ongoing negotiations between the two sides appear to have neared an agreement under which he would just be paid outstanding salaries.

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[1] On November 7 1916, Jeannette Rankin from Montana was elected to US Congress as its first ever woman representative. Nigeria is yet to elect a female governor. We have to correct this anomally come two years time

ISRAEL has donated a computer classroom and accessories worth $100,000 to Nigeria as part on an ongoing bilateral pact to help assist the education sector and enhance effective teaching and learning.

FORMER aviation minister Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has been reportedly re-arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over an alleged forgery and document falsification case involving an ongoing investigation.

NORWAY is stepping up pressure on the Nigerian government to rescind its restrictions on the importation of stockfish as the economic impact of the restriction imports brought about by the need to conserve foreign exchange.

THREE cases of the new dreaded Omicron variant of the Covid-19 virus thought to have originated from South Africa has been detected by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in Abuja.