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As calm returns to Jos after Monday’s violence that claimed 10 lives, security has been beefed up in and around the city as Muslims celebrate Eid-el Fitr. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondents who went round some parts of the city yeste...
Plateau State Council of the Nigerian Union of journalists, NUJ, said that its attention has been drawn to the maltreatment of one of its members, Mallam Bayo Alabira of the People’s Daily Newspapers by men of the Special Task Force (STF) deploye...
The National headquarters of the Jama’atul Izalatul Bid’ah Wa Ikamatus Sunnah (JIBWIS) yesterday said that it was still compiling list of casualties of the attack on its members who went to Rukuba Road Eid ground to observe the Eid –e...
A plane from the Nigerian Air Force has had to be escorted into Cambridge Airport by two RAF fighter jets. According to BBC, “The Hercules was flying into Cambridge for maintenance work but had a radio failure over France and was shadowed by figh...
Fight broke out at the Appeal Court premises in Sokoto between National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) and thugs few hours after they conducted a peaceful protest over the suspension of the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Isa Salami....
Thirty-three persons have been confirmed dead in Yobe State following an outbreak of a killer disease many suspect to be cholera. The state commissioner for Health, Hajiya Fatsuma Talba, who confirmed the incident to newsmen in her office in Damaturu, ...
The Borno State police command yesterday confirmed the killing of the chairman, caretaker committee of Kukawa local government council, Alhaji Lawan Yarami,The Commissioner of Police, Mr Simeon Midenda, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Maidugur...
The authorities of Niger State Polytechnic, Zungeru, has announced the expulsion of 62 students for alleged involvement in examination malpractice.The rector, Alhaji Mohammed Gamaye, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Zungeru yesterday that the s...
As Nigerian joins the rest of the moslem world in celebrating the Eid-el-Fitri marking the end of the Ramadan fasting , the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Aminu Tambuwal has urged Nigerians to eschew violence even as he decried the terror...
The Acting Governor of Niger State, Mr. Ahmed Musa Ibeto has urged Muslims to sustain the ideals of the month of Ramadan beyond the Ramadan period and use Id-El Fitr to pray for solution to the nation’s security challenges.Ibeto who spoke through...
Honourable Aliyu Ibrahim Gebi represents Bauchi Federal Constituency of Bauchi State in the House of Representatives. In this interview with CHIBUZO UKAIBE, he shares perspectives on his legislative agenda, six-year tenure proposal and several topical ...
The Yobe State government has said it will spend an additional sum of N530m to meet up the payment of the new minimum wage of N18,000 for its civil servants. The acting state chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Mohammed Inuwa Gulani, disclos...
Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State has expressed shock and disbelief on the attack of the United Nations (UN) building in Abuja. Jang in a statement issued in Jos, the Plateau State capital yesterday, and signed by Mr. James Mannock, director of pres...
Osun State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has described the suspension of Justice Ayo Salami as the president of Court of Appeal as bad development in the country’s democratic system, which portends serious danger in our judicial...
Kaduna State governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, has observed that “Violence for whatever reason is an ill wind, it does not solve any problem, rather compounds issues for those affected”. He made the observation while speaking with journalist...