INSPECTOR-general of police Usman Baba has ordered investigation into the detention of a 21-year-old lady who was arrested by Intelligence Response Team (IRT) operatives in Imo State just for being the girlfriend of an Eastern Security Network (ESN) member.

EDO State government officials have condemned in strong terms the planned coronation of Idriss Addano as the Sultan of Shuwa Arabs in the state describing the planned move as sacrilegious and a threat to peace and security.

YORUBA Nation agitator Sunday Adeyemo is now planning to apply for political asylum in France and the Republic of Benin and stay in whichever country grants him a right of residency until the end of President Muhammadu Buhari's tenure and then return to Nigeria.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Nigeria currently spends $8bn a year out of her paltry $33bn annual budget subsidising petrol marketers. As a nation we simply cannot afford this. One does not need to be genius to know this wasteful spending has to go. If this new bill is to be worth the paper it is written on, it has to save us every penny of this crazy subsidy

FORMER vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has expressed fears that armed bandits may soon become so accepted that they may even apply for registration with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) and seek listing at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE).

Ayo Akinfe

[1] It would be nice to live in a just, fair, equitable and egalitarian world where everyone is treated as an equal. However, the reality of human existence in 2021 is that the strong dominate the weak

[2] Emily Lockhard wrote: "See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be.” Basically, that means us that we have to live on the planet as it is and now how we wish it should be

INTERNATIONAL oil companies operating in Nigeria owe the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) more than $4bn in unpaid royalties according to the minister of Niger Delta Affairs senator Godswill Akpabio.

DEPUTY police commissioner Abba Kyari is facing the prospect of extradition to the US to face corruption charges after he lost a high court case today in which his lawyers sought to restrain the security agencies from arresting and extraditing him.

SEVERAL Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) members are up in arms with the leadership of the organisation over their recent decision to suspend the weekly sit-at-home protests called to express their anger at the abduction and trial of their founder Nnamdi Kanu.

FORMER Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor Professor Charles Soludo has suffered a major setback in his quest to become the next Anambra State governor after an Owerri high court ruled that his opponent Chukwuma Umeoji was the authentic candidate of his party.