2Face kick starts 2015 Star Music Trek Phase 2 in Makurdi

Benue, the food basket of the nation is set for the most notable concert to hold in the state this year as Star, Nigeria’s iconic lager resumes the 2015 Star Music Trek on Saturday August 1 at the IBB Square in Makurdi. Headline acts billed to perform include local boy turned international megastar 2Face, MI, Faze, Yemi Alade, KCee and Runtown. Gbenga Adeyinka is also set to MC the mega concert with Tony Blaze and DJ Neptune on the wheels.

Ibori’s Case Echoes In Singapore As Cameron Warns Against Bringing Dirty Money To Uk

James Ibori

Foreign fraudsters and corrupt officials have been warned by David Cameron that London is “not a place to stash your dodgy cash”. The Prime Minister has promised to crack down on shady offshore companies buying up luxury properties as part of his drive to tackle international corruption.

Odemwingie: I'm still not fully fit

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Stoke City’s Peter Odemwingie has admitted that he has not fully recovered from his knee ligament  injury that kept him out for eight months,  despite featuring in his side's last three games.

Shell to sack 6500;Cut spending to cope with lower oil prices

Royal Dutch Shell says it will axe 6,500 jobs this year and step up spending cuts, to deal with an extended period of lower oil prices. Besides, the company announced on Thursday in London the sale of a 33 per cent stake in the Showa Shell refinery in Japan to Idemitsu, for about $1.4 billion. The Anglo-Dutch company also said it was planning more asset disposals..

BET Award winner,Stonebwoy loses Mum

BET Award winner,Stonebwoy is bereaved.The rising Ghanaian dance hall act has lost his mother, Catherine Satekla. The sad incident, which has dampened the spirits of the award winning act, whose real name is Livingstone Etse Satekla, is reported to have occurred on Wednesday, July 29, 2015.Stonebwoy’s mum breathed her last at the 37 Military Hospital in Accra where she had been admitted.

Nigeria Airforce discover Boko Haram's oil depot,supply routes

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) through its intensified and persistent efforts in the ongoing fight against Boko Haram terrorists has intercepted over 4,000 drums and jerry cans of petroleum products and other smuggled items. The items were confiscated from the smugglers in Pepe, Dashin-Hausa, Belel Bilachi, and Konkul villages located along the Nigeria-Cameroon border on Tuesday, 28 July 2015.

Akwa Ibom Police Nabbed Igbo Man Who Slaughtered Boy Like Goat-for-sale

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It was a clear case of man’s inhumanity to his fellow man. That is the only way anyone can describe the act of one Stephen Anona, 32, from Njikoka in Anambra State, who allegedly slaughtered one Daniel Bassey Solomon, from Uruan LGA, like goat with head, hands and legs cut-off, carefully stacked inside bags and dumped in the nearby bush.

DPR seals 22 filling stations in Abuja

DPR says it has sealed 22 filling stations in Abuja and environs for profiteering. This was contained in a statement issued by Muhammad Saidu,the Head of Public Relations of DPR,in Abuja on Wednesday. The statement said 19 of them were sealed up for selling above N87/ litre,2 for diversion of petroleum products,with the  remaining one for “grossly under-dispensing & selling products massively in jerry cans”.

Ovaltine,DHL Express take beverages to IDPs in Yola

Touched by the plight and nutritional needs of Internally Displaced Persons(IDP)around the country, occasioned by the nefarious activities of the Boko Haram terrorists, Twinings Ovaltine LTD and DHL,announced an initial 12-month strategic joint partnership,aimed at alleviating the sufferings of these people through the donation aand subsequent transportation of tonnes of Ovaltine products worth millions of naira to IDPs camps.

PDP broke,plans to reduce staff by 50 percent

Two months after losing power at the national level and in majority of the states, the national leadership of the former ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party, has concluded plans to sack half of its workforce. Towards this end, the National Secretary of the party, Prof. Wale Oladipo, has communicated the decision of the National Working Committee of the party to all its directors.