A 40-year-old school teacher, Nurudeen Algoni Umar was on Sunday night shot dead by gunmen suspected to be members of the Yusufiyya sect popularly known as Boko Haram in Gwange ward of the Maiduguri metropolitan council. Our correspondent gathered that...
The Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III has declared that lack of patriotism was the major obstacle to the peace and unity of the country. The royal father, who was in Sokoto on Sunday at a special Ramadan breakfast (Iftar) organised fo...
The Kaduna State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has accused Governor Patrick Yakowa of using the free Ramadan feeding directive to local governments as a ploy to siphon public funds and enrich the illegal council administrators, just a...
Benue State Governor, Gabriel Suswam has denied the corruption and money laundering allegations levelled against him by one Bemgba Anyor in an online journal, saying the name of the petitioner is fictitious. Bemgba Anyor, in a petition sent to the Econ...
The director of Transport in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Transport Secretariat, Mr. Wilson Unougwu has said that transporters involved in intra-city taxi service in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) will pay N3,000 to the FCT transport secret...
This call was proved fruitful in Kano and Bauchi States in the heavily and violently rigged 2007 general elections. This is the reason the P.D.P. was jittery in the build up to the 2011 elections concerning this call and attempted to do all they could ...
Sequel to the nationalisation of three banks, Afribank, Bank PHB and Spring Bank, and the coming into being of Mainstreet Bank Ltd, Keystone Bank Ltd, and Enterprise Bank Ltd, the managing director of Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), Alha...
Following the takeover of the three banks; Afribank, Bank PHB and Spring Bank by the Federal Government, trading activities on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) yesterday witnessed a heavy run on the shares of listed equities leading to mo...
The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, has assured that the federal government will study the report submitted by the Presidential Committee on Environmental Survey and Clean-up of Ogoniland and make a definitive statement of...
The retired Archbishop of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), the Most Reverend Abiodun Adetiloye, has advised President Goodluck Jonathan to drop the proposed single term of six years for president and governors in the country. He also warned ...
The President of African Children Rescue Foundation (ACFR), Dr. Joseph Johnson has said that President Goodluck Jonathan needed to take drastic decision in order to be a successful leader. He stated this yesterday at the award/founder’s day celeb...
The Oyo State Governor Abiola Ajimobi, has told Local Government Transition Committee Chairmen not to see their swearing to an oath of office as mere routine, stating that, by swearing on oath with the bible and Quran, they had reached an understanding...
The Lagos State House of Assembly has again called on the Federal Government to as a matter of urgency build pedestrian crossings in all Federal roads in Lagos especially the Lagos-Abeokuta expressway. Hon. Ipoola Omisore, representing Ifako-Ijaye Cons...
Africa has been put on the spot over lack of investment in agriculture, especially in the wake of a food crisis owing to prolonged drought in parts of the continent. Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, said recently that lack of investment ...
In an effort to find a lasting solution to the perennial clashes of Fulani cattle rearers in Jigawa State, the federal government has planted grasses on one hundred hectares at the Sankara grazing reserve. Handing over the project, National Livestock P...