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The Federal Government has reiterated its resolve to ensure lasting peace and unity in the country. The Information and Orientation Minister, Mr Labaran Maku said this in Lafia on Monday when he paid a condolence visit to Gov. Tanko Al-makura of Nasara...
Fire gutted a section of the Zenith Bank branch located at Area 7 in Abuja on Monday evening, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports. An eyewitness at the scene, told NAN that the fire started at about 7.35 p. m. due to an electrical fault in ...
The Borno Police Command on Monday presented a cash reward of N500,000 to an informant for helping to arrest two suspects planning to kill a Muslim cleric in Maiduguri. Alhaji Bala Hassan, the state Commissioner for Police handed over the cash to...
The Executive Secretary of TET Fund, Prof. Mamood Yakubu, has said that the federal government has earmarked N5bn for 10 boarding and five day schools for Almajiri education. Yakubu, who stated this in Kaduna yesterday, added that the amoun...
Hundred of Muslims yesterday fed their Christian counterparts in Kaduna to commemorate this year’s Easter. Performing the occasion, the leader of the Muslim Youths, Muhammad Shuaibu expressed gratitude to the Christian brothers, calling on intern...
In this interview with Salisu Ibrahim, one time Kano State governor and now chairman, Senate Committee on States and Local Governments, Senator Kabiru Ibrahim Gaya bares his mind on many interesting and contentious issues – gay marriage, neglect ...
There is palpable tension among local government staff in Katsina State over a looming mass retrenchment as the state Local Government Service Commission reportedly sent list of redundant staff to the council areas. Our correspondent report...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra State has denied claims by the All Progressives Grand Alliance Party (APGA) that violence marred the Anambra South senatorial rerun Polls held recently. The Director General of Ikukuoma Campaign Organisatio...
The Commissioner of Police in Sokoto, Alhaji Aliyu Musa, said on Monday that about 5,000 police personnel had been mobilised to provide security during President Goodluck Jonathan official visit to the state on Tuesday. Musa told the News Age...
The Joint Task Force (JTF) said it had shot and killed three members of the Boko Haram sect and arrested two of them in Miaduguri. The Spokesman of the JTF, Lt.-Col. Sagir Musa disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Maiduguri. He added t...
A legal icon, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN) at the weekend explained that the people of Edo North and other parts of the state rejected the offer of Deputy Governor dangled by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), because the incumbent Governor, Comrade Adam...
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has said that its bribery allegation against President Goodluck Jonathan, over the construction or ‘renovation’ of a church in his village, has nothing to do with religious or ethnic considerations...
Sokoto State Chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) yesterday expressed dismay over the recent acquisition of N600 million housing by the Sokoto State government, describing the decision as a clear indication of the fact thatv the government i...
President Goodluck Jonathan has sent a congratulatory message to Senate President David Mark on his 64th birthday. In the message, the President praised Mark for his ``steadfast’’ dedication and patriotism to the nation. A statement issued ...
Senate President David Mark has called for national reconciliation, tolerance and forgiveness among Nigerians as panacea to the intractable security threat and occasional ethno-religious conflicts in the country. Mark, who made the call on Saturday in ...