Metro

The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has approved posthumous promotion for the two policemen killed during a robbery at a branch of Zenith Bank in Owerri, Imo State, the State Commissioner of Police, Chris Ezike, told newsmen.

An Ijaw group, Western Zone Ijaw Youth Elders frowned at Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark for allegedly inaugurating a faction of the Ijaw Youth Council, IYC in his residence at Abuja, noting that his actions fall short of leader of the Ijaw nation.

The Nigeria Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) Saturday, in Abuja went into celebration following the arrest of most wanted notorious kidnap kingpin, Evans, who is linked to most of the high profile kidnap operation in the country in the past seven years.

The Delta State Government has dismissed reports making the rounds in the social media alleging that Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa led government has stopped the free maternal and child healthcare programme initiated by the past administration as not only false but misleading.

Delta State government is reportedly to have received N27.6Billion from the first tranche of Paris Club refunds paid to states to date, as against N14billion being speculated in government quarters.

The African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development (Centre LSD), based in Abuja is set to commence its Delta state Campus as its first students resumes class on Saturday, June 10, 2017.

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has commissioned Twelve Intra-city roads in Asaba just as he assured Deltans especially residents of Asaba that the Central Hospital project awarded since 2006 will be put unto use by January 2018.

Former FBI director James Comey accused President Donald Trump on Thursday of firing him to undermine FBI’s investigation into possible collusion by his campaign team with Russia’s alleged efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election.

British Prime Minister Theresa May, Thursday suffered a major setback in a riotous election, losing her overall majority in Parliament and throwing her government into uncertainty less than two weeks before it is scheduled to begin negotiations over withdrawing from the European Union.

The House of Representatives on Thursday condemned the quit notice given to the Igbos by Coalition of Arewa Youths to leave the Northern region of the country or face attack.