Two Fulani community leaders in Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau were on Friday arraigned before a Jos Senior Chief Magistrates’ Court, over their alleged complicity in the violence. The community leaders - Mohammed Adamu, 50 and Mohammed B...
The Nigerian Air Force on Friday in Abuja decorated its first female pilot, Flying Officer Blessing Liman, along with 29 other male pilots. Decorating the officers in Abuja, the Minister of Defence, Dr Bello Mohammed, said that the Air Force had justif...
Nollywood star actress Genevieve Nnaji will star alongside Hollywood’s Chiwetel Ejiofor and British actress Thandie Newton in the upcoming movie ‘Half Of A Yellow Sun’, a film adaptation of Chimamanda Adichie’s bestselling...
Unknown gunmen have killed two persons, including a policeman in two separate attacks in Yola and Mubi in Adamawa. Confirming the incidents to newsmen on Friday in Yola, the Public Relations Officer of the Adamawa State Police Command, ASP....
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Friday April 27, 2012 secured a landmark victory in its suit against former governor of Abia state, Orji Uzor Kalu at the Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, when the panel of three justices led by Jus...
A federal judge on Thursday refused to order President Barack Obama's administration to release photos and video of the U.S. military operation that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan almost a year ago and the al Qaeda leader's burial at sea. ...
The Vice-Chancellor of the Gombe State University (GSU), Prof. Idris Mahdi, has said that Thursday’s bombing of the Senate Building of the institution will not affect academic activities in the university. He said this in an interview with...
Kaduna State Government said on Friday that it had cancelled the April Environmental sanitation exercise due to the 33th Kaduna International Trade Fair that will be officially declared open on April 28. Mr Solomon Guruza, the Director of Environ...
Hundreds of Egyptian Islamists protested in Cairo on Friday against what they said was a bid to bring back deposed president Hosni Mubarak's old guard after his last prime minister was allowed to stand in the presidential election. But exposing di...
An Ilorin Magistrates’ Court on Friday remanded a 65 year-old Islamic cleric Akanbi Ibrahim for allegedly defiling a 15 year-old girl. Ibrahim was arraigned on a three-count charge of rape, force and assault, contrary to Sections 283 and 265 of ...
People look out for different things when choosing who to date. Blessing Ukemena writes on three important traits to look out, whether you are male or female. We may all be guilty of being superficial when it comes to choosing a partner. The physical c...
Recently, Kaduna State governor, Mr. Patrick Yakowa, was in Washington DC where he attended the Nigerian Investors’ Forum on Agriculture and the 2012 United States Exim Bank Conference. At the end of the events, the governor spoke with ABIODUN OL...
President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, has described yesterday’s multiple bomb blasts at THISDAY and Daily Sun offices in Abuja and Kaduna as an assault on the freedom of the press. Senator Mark, who received the news of the multiple bomb a...
The inspector General of Police IGP Mohammed Abubakar has called on Nigerians to fortify their homes and office premises in order to help the police check the occurrence of suicide bombings in the country. The police boss, who made this request at the ...
A Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday, denied ever granting an interim order restraining the Inspector General of Police (IGP),his officers or agents from investigating or prosecuting the former governor of Kwara State, Senator Bukola Saraki ov...