Over fifteen persons are feared dead in a suicide attack on a commercial hub along Danmusa Road, by Oriakpata, Kaduna State. The commercial centre is known to house many non-indigenes and mainly, vehicle spare parts dealers. Police Commissioner Ballah ...
About 300 policemen yesterday invaded the Adamawa State House of Assembly and prevented the legislators from sitting and performing their official duties. The action was caused by a protest staged by some hoodlums over the impeachment of the speaker, H...
Minister of petroleum resources Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke has said that the federal government was targeting $130 billion investment inflow in the oil and gas sector even as it plans to construct additional 2,000 kilometers of pipeline. Alison-Maduek...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday stated that the current political environment in the country was not healthy enough to allow states to have their own police force. “State police may be theoretically good but, looking at our political enviro...
Over 50,000 Shiite Muslims yesterday staged a peaceful march across Kaduna metropolis and the city of Zaria in remembrance of the late Imam Hussain and his household.The members of the Shiite in Zaria, who wore black dresses, sang dirges expressing sad...
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has stated that the party has sufficient evidence to ensure that the victory of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) at last weekend’s governorship election is upturned. Speaking yesterday in ...
Five months into the tenure of the present legislators at Adamawa State House of Assembly, the state lawmakers, at its sitting yesterday, passed a vote of no confidence on its Speaker, Barrister Hon. Sadiq Ibrahim Dasin, representing Fufore/Gurin Const...
The Dangote Foundation has begun the disbursement of N600million to women in Kano State. The disbursement began on Saturday at the Sani Abacha Stadium with initial 4,400 beneficiaries drawn from the 44 local government areas of the state. The money was...
The Chairman, South -East Governors’ Forum and Anambra State Governor Peter Obi, has said that the ex Biafran warlord, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, will be buried on February 2, 2012. Speaking with journalists yesterday at the Enu...
The House of Representatives Committee on Environment has questioned the Ecological Fund Office (EFO) over its non-adherence to due process in awarding N11.5 billion contracts in the South-Eastern parts of the country. Members of the committee made thi...
A former Brazilian captain, Socrates is dead. Popularly called the ‘Golden Heel’, the Brazil’s 1982 World Cup captain, passed on at the age of 57. He was said to have been in a critical condition with an intestinal infecti...
Captain Idris Wada of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has emerged winner of the Kogi State governorship election in a landslide victory. Wada won with 300,372 votes, Abubakar Audu of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) secured 159,913 votes, Ubolo ...
In what many believe is another litmus test for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), yesterday’s governorship election in Kogi state saw the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Prince Abubakar Audu taking an early lead in the resul...
The father of convicted spokesman of the Boko Haram sect Ali Sanda Umar Konduga, also known as Usman Al-Zawahiri, Alhaji Sanda Konduga, has stated that his son has had a long history of insanity. The elder Konduga also said that he was not aware that h...
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, has dismissed a suit filed against the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, challenging her eligibility for appointment by President Goodluck Jonathan into the federal cabinet. In a ruling...