The Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order (ORO) said on Friday that it had arrested 26 suspected Boko Haram sect members during a raid in Maiduguri. Lt.-Col. Sagir Musa, the JTF spokesman stated this in a statement in Maiduguri. ``Following...
The permanent secretariat of the African First Ladies Peace Mission (AFLPM) in Abuja would cost 50 million dollars (about N8 billion), Mr Reuben Okoya, Coordinator, Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC), said. Okoya, who gave the estimate in his...
Beans known as Ewa to the Yoruba and are unpopular staple foods because it is associated with bloating, flatulence and indigestion. Most people have one reason or the other why they do not eat beans. Yet, it is advisable to have beans in the family men...
Rachel Aldington, 42, emerges from the frozen fog, feeling for just a few minutes like she’s 19 again. Back then she was loose-limbed and pain-free, poised on the brink of a professional waterskiing career — and then she developed ankylosin...
Chief Chika Okpala became a household name as ‘Chief Zebrudaya’ when he produced and acted the lead role in one of Nigeria’s longest running comedy programmes on television, ‘The Masqurades’. He speaks with CHIKA OTUCHIKER...
Governors of the nineteen northern states under the auspices of the Northern States Governors Forum (NSGF) met in Abuja last night to further deliberate on the prevailing situation of insecurity in the North as well as the constitution review. The meet...
Four persons in the last two days were reportedly killed at different locations in Benin City, the Edo State capital following a renewed cult war between Aiye confraternity and Black Axe. The latest was the murder of a middle-aged man at a beer parlor ...
The Director General of the National Lottery Regulatory Commission (NLRC), Mr Peter Igho, has said that since his assumption of office three years ago, the commission has realised about N3billon in revenue. This was just as he said that the money would...
SEFIU AYANBIMPE takes a cursory look at the arguments of true Awoist politics of progressivism that ensued from different political quarters in the South-West geopolitical zone of the country by two governors of the region, Mr Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola a...
The Organised Labour has called on workers of the Power Company of Nigeria (PHCN) to ignore statement credited to the Minister of Power, Professor Barth Nnaji, directing workers to demand from union leaders the whereabouts of their missing ...
Ebonyi State Governor Martin Elechi yesterday cautioned the House of Representatives against aggravating an already tense polity characterised by insecurity through its threats of initiating impeachment proceedings against President Goodluck Jona...
The commission of inquiry on revenue and expenditure set up by the Zamfara State government to probe former Governor Mahmud Aliyu Shinkafi has held its inaugural sitting and received a memo from Idris Bala and Co., Chartered Accountants and Tax P...
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Abubakar, has debunked the findings of a recent survey by the CLEEN Foundation which claimed that armed robbery incidents increased by six per cent between 2010 and 2012. Abubakar, who, yesterday, r...
First Lady Dame Patience Jonathan has urged her fellow first ladies to leave their comfort zones even as she advocated for peaceful means of resolving differences in the society. She warned that if nothing was done, the future would be bleak. She made ...
One of the leading telecoms in Nigeria, MTN, has faulted the inaccurate and biased reports in some national newspapers on Thursday, 26 July, 2012, which alleged that its officials recanted their position on the ownership of two lines linked to the elec...