Indigenes of Kebbi State under the auspices of Kebbi Awareness Forum (KAF) has called on the Kebbi State House of Assembly to probe an alleged mismanagement of the joint account operated by the state government and its 21 Local government a...
Bauchi State first female Professor of Micro-Biology, Prof. Fatima Jafar Tahir, has urged husbands to support their wives in furthering their education to enable them contribute immensely to the development of the society. Tahir, who made the app...
As the allegation of certificate forgery made against Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State by the gubernatorial candidate of All Nigerian Peoples Party, Professor Daniel Saror, continues to generate controversies in the state, the Coalition for Good ...
Governor Umaru Tanko Al-makura, of Nasarawa State, some hours, after addressing the people of the state on the impending security situation, yesterday Sunday, personally took time visiting some churches to see things for himself. The governor’s a...
Ahead of the governorship poll slated for December 3, 2011, women in Kogi State have started mobilising support for the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) governorship candidate, Chief James Ocholi. The coordinator of Kogi Women for Ocholi and state...
Palm reading also known as chiromancy is one of the many pseudo-sciences (a method that tries to explain physical phenomena without scientific proof to back it up). It is an art of foretelling that uses the hand lines as well as the palm’s markin...
Six people were killed on Sunday in Oke Afo, near Badagry, Lagos State, when a car driven by a Customs officer veered off the Lagos-Badagry Expressway. FRSC Assistant Road Commander Hussein Haruna told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the d...
The Gombe State Commissioner of Police, Mr Orubebe Ebikeme, has confirmed the bombing of the Mobile Police base in Kwame, in Kwame local government area, on Sunday killing no fewer than three persons. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) repor...
When the Nations Cup kicks off in January next year in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Algeria and South Africa will not be participating. Not because they are not good enough but because they did not qualify. With these five tea...
Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard, making his first start of the season, appeared to have won the derby when he fed a free-kick through a hospitable-looking United wall in the lunchtime kick-off. However, having failed to threaten for the majority of th...
The proposal raised last week by deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, about legalising prostitution in the country has generated heated debate among moralists and socialists alike. Besides, like one respondent puts it, prostitution is a reality of ...
Abuja as a growing city is faced with a lot of challenges, many of them bothering on infrastructure. CATHERINE AGBO reports that shopping malls and public buildings in the city have little or no provision for parking of cars in their facilities. "...
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) administration has been working tirelessly to ensure that all the squatter settlements that might portray the Capital city in bad light are completely demolished. One of such settlements is Pyakassa village which see...
Traffic congestion is a massive problem in Lagos State. This challenge, coupled with specific problems such as infrastructural weakness, demographic shift and enforcement of traffic laws, have made traffic management in the state a nightmare. In this r...
Plans by Federal Government to push a security related bill that would empower it to eavesdrop on telephone conversations of the general public is generating some controversy. SHUAIB SHUAIB examines the issues, citing related examples from India,...