Nasarawa state, being largely an agrarian state with large settlements along the banks of the river Benue has had more than a fair share of the recent flood disasters leading to various levels of destruction, with attendant displacement of over 100,000...
History was made in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital about a fortnight ago when the management of the University of Ilorin included Mrs. Medinat Folorunso Salman in the list of the institution’s newly appointed professors. By her appointment, Medi...
It took the prompt intervention of the men of the Nigerian Air Force Base in Yola, the Adamawa State capital, to rescue the governor of Taraba State, Mr. Danbaba Suntai, and five of his aides that were involved in an air crash on Thursday night, LEADER...
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have launched a massive investigation into how an unregistered firm, Pinnacle Contractors Limited, received a whopping N2.76 billion of the oil subsidy funds without supplying even a lit...
Less than a month to the November 22, 2012 deadline for the submission of its report, months the 41-man Committee on Reconciliation, Healing and Security set up by the Northern States Governors’ Forum (NSGF) to work out ways to end the insurgency...
Barely 24 hours after the Eid-El-kabir celebration, a middle age man whose name is yet to be known engaged in an indiscriminate slaughtering of human beings in the form of a ram leaving two persons dead and other Four in a critical condition at the Sai...
As the spate of kidnapping and ritual killings increased across the country, the recent accusation levelled against a medical doctor in Onitsha, has again brought to the fore the question of how safe are the hospitals in the delivery of new-born babies...
Americans will head to the poll on November 6 to vote for a new president. As incumbent President Barack Obama is seeking another four years in office, JONATHAN NDA-ISAIAH, in this piece, examines what Obama’s victory will mean for the Afri...
Shootings and bombings near the capital Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq have left at least 14 people dead, as Muslims mark the second day of the Eid al-Adha holiday, officials have said. A police source told Al Jazeera that at least five passengers on a ...
Governor of Niger State Muazu Babangida Aliyu, has urged politicians seeking for elective and appointive offices in 2015 to leave their anbition to God. Aliyu in his Sallah broadcast yesterday to the people of the state, said: “We believe infinit...
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, has urged the three tiers of government to strengthen their efforts on security and other developmental strides. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Abubakar made the appeal yesterday in...
Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola and his predecessor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has urged Nigerians to shun all forms of violence and threats to the unity of the country. They said it was only in a peaceful environment that the nation could emerge grea...
The Estu Nupe, Alhaji Yahaya Abubakar, has asked Nigerian leaders to use the celebration of Eid-el-Kabir to promote unity and progress in the country above personal interest. The monarch, who addressed his people after the Eid prayers yesterday in Bida...
After its defeat at the October 20, 2012, governorship polls in Ondo State, the South West caucus of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will meet today in Ibadan to chart a new course for reconciliation. The meeting tagged: ‘Zonal Caucus Meeting&...
Abuja, the nation’s capital, is yet to have a recycling plant, 36 years after its creation. The authorities evacuate solid waste in trucks and dump them in a site near Gosa on Airport Road. The Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB), which i...