Osinbajo: South-South snub by APC irrelevant, says Briggs
A Niger Delta activist and spokesperson for the Ijaw Republican Assembly, Ms. Annkio Briggs, has downplayed the decision of the All Progressives Congress not to pick a South-South running mate for its...
View ArticleIllegal Nigeria immigrants caught with Nigerian voters’ cards
The Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS, arrested and repatriated 430 illegal immigrants in Jigawa State between January and November 2014, the service said. The service also said its personnel seized...
View ArticleAgain, 80 insurgents, 2 soldiers killed in Borno
BY NDAHI MARAMA, MAIDUGURI At least 80 Boko Haram insurgents and two soldiers lost their lives when suspected members of the sect laid ambush along the troubled Maiduguri- Damboa road. The clash...
View ArticleOnly continuity can ensure lasting development, says Obasanjo
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that the only way to ensure enduring infrastructural and human capacity development in Nigeria was for every government to build on the projects and the...
View ArticleBuhari capable of salvaging Nigeria from current ‘woes’ – Tambuwal
The Speaker of the House of Representatives and All Progressives Congress, APC’s gubernatorial candidate in Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, has hailed the emergence of Muhammadu Buhari and Yemi Osinbajo...
View ArticleAmaechi accuses Wike of embezzling N3.5 billion Rivers money
The Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, has accused former Minister of State for Education, Nyesom Wike, of embezzling over N3.5 billion state funds. Mr. Amaechi said the money was paid to the...
View ArticleUPDATE: New Video Shows Boko Haram Shooting Civilians At School Dormitory
A gory video released on the internet by Boko Haram insurgents yesterday revealed how the insurgents gathered hundreds of trapped residents of Bama in a school dormitory and shot them point blank, with...
View Article1200 Christmas Chickens Lost To Auto Accident
About 1, 200 Christmas chickens valued at about N4,800,000 perished in an early morning auto crash which occurred on Saturday at Adolor junction, Ugbowo, along Benin-Ore highway in Benin City, capital...
View ArticleAU concerned about displaced persons in Nigeria
Dr Laraba Abdullahi, the Commissioner, Political Affairs, African Union (AU), on Sunday said the African continent is concerned about the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Nigeria, Sudan, Central...
View ArticleNLC directs workers to shun salary, protest sack of 6,000 workers
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Kogi chapter, has directed civil servants in the state to reject their December salaries to protect the jobs of over 6,000 workers slated for sack by the government....
View ArticleThousands scramble for Tinubu’s Xmas gifts
Thousands of Lagos residents converged on the Idowu Taylor Street, Victoria Island, on Saturday to receive Christmas gifts from the Bola Tinubu Foundation, a non-profit organisation owned by a former...
View Article2015: Danger looms, warns Bolaji Akinyemi
LAGOS — Former Foreign Minister and Deputy Chairman, 2014 National Conference, Professor Bolaji Akinyemi, has alerted Nigerians to grave dangers ahead of the February 2015 general elections, insisting...
View ArticleGOV DICKSON EXPRESSES SHOCK, AS PA ANYAM – OSIGWE PASSES ON
Governor of Bayelsa State, Hon. Seriake Dickson has expressed deep shock over the untimely death of Chief Emmanuel Osigwe Anyam- Osigwe, Honorary Consul of the Republic of Malawi and coordinator of the...
View ArticleRailway lines in Nigeria to commence operations soon – Tukur
Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, the Board Chairman of Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), on Monday said all the railway lines in the country would commence operations soon. Tukur disclosed this while briefing...
View ArticleUnmask sponsors of Boko Haram Now, Senate President tasks security operatives
SENATE President, David Mark, on Monday, said the time has come for security operatives to unmask sponsors of Boko Haram. Mark, who spoke at the decoration of his Aide-de-camp (ADC), Abel Miri, with...
View ArticlePakistan Pledges Support For Chibok Girls’ Rescue
The Pakistan High Commissioner, Lt. Gen. Ashraf Saleem has pledged his country’s willingliness to help Nigeria rescue the Chibok girls and stem terrorism in the country. Saleem, who spoke during a...
View ArticleWorld Bank to support Nigeria’s power sector with N294bn
The Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) on Monday said that the World Bank would support the Nigeria’s power sector with 1.75 dollars (about N294billion) over the next four years. This was contained in...
View ArticleBoko Haram Operating Under Foreign Influence – Northern Govs
Governors of the 19 northern states have urged Nigerians to look carefully to ascertain if the terrorist activities unleashed on the northeastern states of that region by the Boko Haram sect were not a...
View ArticleVIDEO: “I am 100% With General Buhari”, Says Pastor Tunde Bakare
In this interview with SaharaTV, the serving overseer of Latter Rain Assembly Church and convener of the Save Nigeria Group (SNG)Pastor Tunde Bakare declared his total support for All Progressives...
View ArticleUPDATE: Child-bride confesses to killing husband with rat poison
A packed Kano State High Court, yesterday, heard testimony that a 14-year-old girl admitted to killing her 35-year-old husband with rat poison, and signed a police confession with a thumbprint because...
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