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About four security operatives have been feared killed as unknown gunmen invaded Rivers State, Saturday night. It was gathered that the gunmen allegedly killed the victims at different security checking points in the State. It was learned that the killers also beheaded two people believed to be soldiers at a military close to the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omuagwa in …

In his Saturday article titled, ‘The Endless Martyrdom of Youth’, Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka said Nigeria is at war but her leaders are pretending. Indeed, that is the perfect description of the current situation of Africa’s most populous nation where kidnappings and killings have become the order of the day. In the past week, at least 239 people were killed and 44 …

About eight years after a PREMIUM TIMES investigation uncovered how public officials collude with traders to sell free donor-funded mosquito nets to Nigerians, the practice is still rampant as Nigeria continues its battle against malaria. With about 81,640 deaths annually from malaria, Nigeria accounts for over 20 per cent of the 400,000 annual deaths, globally, from the disease. While there …

Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has said Nigeria is pretending not to know that it is at war. In a statement on Saturday titled ‘The Endless Martyrdom of Youth’, Mr Soyinka said the country is on the brink unless an urgent action is taken. Mr Soyinka’s statement came following the killing of three kidnapped students of Greenfield University by bandits in Kaduna and …

…Condoles Itsekiri people …Congratulates them on choice of new Olu-designate, Prince Tsola Emiko By Okhide Em’ya David Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, has described the departed Olu of Warri, Ogiame Ikenwoli, as  a man of peace who contributed immensely to promotion of peace and development in Itsekiriland and neighboring ethnic nationalities. The governor, who condoled with the Itsekiri people over the …

Okhide Em’ya David Ologbostere of Warri, Chief Ayiri Emami, on Friday met with the police in connection with  alleged attack on the palace of the Olu of Warri  and carting away of some very  important traditional office Paraphernalia by the attackers. The Ologbostere who is also the chairman of the Olu’s Advisory Council, vehemently  denied involvement in the alleged invasion of the Palace …

By Okhide Em’ya David Edo State Police Command, on Friday arraigned a 23-year-old Odion Onalu before an Ogbeson Chief Magistrate’s Court in Benin for allegedly stealing N66, 500 cash. Prosecutor, Sgt. Kehinde Iyawe, said the defendant, a female staff of GT fast food, was arraigned on a one-count charge of stealing. Iyawe said that the defendant was a staff of …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has urged the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers (NIESV) to partner with his administration in actualizing the state’s 30-year development. Obaseki who received the 24th President of NIESV, Chief Emmanuel Okas Wike and other members of the Association, on a courtesy visit at the Government House, Benin City, described the NIESV as …

Suspected Boko Haram terrorists on Friday attacked Geidam, the headquarters of Geidam Local Government Area of Yobe State and hometown of the acting Inspector-General of the Police, Baba Alkali. Premium Times’s correspondent could hear sounds of heavy gunfire as he spoke on the phone with a source in the town on the development. “I cannot talk now, I am sure …

President Buhari has said Nigeria is undertaking climate-friendly programmes and is ‘treading the path of sustainability.’ He made this statement at the just concluded Leaders Summit on Climate convened by the President of the United States, Joe Biden, which was held virtually from April 22 to 23. Speaking to the world leaders on Nigeria’s climate efforts so far, the president said, …