Six children were killed in a fire on Friday in Dagoni village, Kaita local government area of Katsina State. A relation of one of the deceased, Malam Danjuma Mohammadu, said on Saturday in Dagoni that the inferno occurred at about 4.30 p.m. in a grana...
British-born actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje came late to screen acting and made his movie debut in Congo (1995). He has since appeared in The Mummy Returns (2001) and The Bourne Identity (2002), but he is best known as Simon Adebisi in the edgy HBO-TV ...
Soldiers have been deployed to major streets in Kano to enhance security following the multiple explosions in the city on Friday. The State Government on Friday imposed 24-hour curfew on the state as part of measures to forestall further attacks. Armed...
The Joint Military Task Force (JTF) in Bayelsa has confirmed that two explosions rocked parts of Yenagoa at about midnight on Friday. The JTF spokesman, Lt.-Col. Timothy Antigha, said on Saturday that there were dynamite explosions in certain parts of ...
Beijing long jump bronze medalist, Blessing Okagbare, has high expectations for the coming season, and not just because it’s an Olympic year. Last year was a difficult one with injury dampening the expectations of an athlete who until then had be...
Many traders at the Eke Obinagu market in Enugu East Local Government Area of Enugu state lose millions of naira at the beginning of each year to strange fire incidents, and this year is not an exception. The only difference is that t...
Police in Funtua local government area of Katsina State on Friday arrested a suspected armed robbery kingpin, Tasi’u Bommalli, who later died of gun shot injuries on their way to the hospital. It will be recalled that the police on Monday during ...
The PDP Electoral Panel for Delegates Election in Cross River has announced the cancellation of elections in three wards due to irregularities. The Chairman, Mr Mohammed Wakil, stated this in Calabar while briefing the media on the pr...
Deputy Editor, SONI DANIEL, examines the drama, the fury and the intrigues that have been thrown up by the ongoing probe of key government agencies involved in the rape of the nation in the name of fuel subsidy. He reports that the revelations em...
Reprieve came the way of the embattled inspector- general of police, Hafiz Ringim yesterday following the expiration of the 24-hour ultimatum he had to produce the escaped Boko Haram suspect, Kabiru Sokoto. Contrary to expectations that the police boss...
Staff of the PHCN headquarters have been asked to either proceed on transfers or quit the job. Minister of Power, Prof. Barth Nnaji stated this yesterday at the opening of the power sector retreat in Abuja. He said the workers were being paid for doing...
The Nigeria Air Force (NAF) yesterday paraded a 33-year-old Mohammed Musa in Kaduna for impersonating as an air force officer with the rank of a group captain, alongside one other fake lance corporal for selling fake air force recruitment forms to unsu...
Ten foreigners suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect have been arrested by the Benue State police command. The suspects, who were arrested in various parts of Makurdi, were said to be staying in places that could not be easily identified. The ...
The Minority Whip in the House of Representatives, Hon. Samson Osagie, has condemned the deployment of soldiers to some states in the South West, particularly Lagos, Ogun and Oyo States. The member stated this in a press statement made available to LEA...
Niger-Delta Coastal Communities (NDCC) has threatened to shut down oil installations as more communities continue to be affected by the Bonga oil spill. Communities affected were as at Thursday reported to have risen to 84. This was made known by...