The Nigeria Air Force (NAF) yesterday paraded a 33-year-old Mohammed Musa in Kaduna for impersonating as an air force officer with the rank of a group captain, alongside one other fake lance corporal for selling fake air force recruitment forms to unsu...
Ten foreigners suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect have been arrested by the Benue State police command. The suspects, who were arrested in various parts of Makurdi, were said to be staying in places that could not be easily identified. The ...
The Minority Whip in the House of Representatives, Hon. Samson Osagie, has condemned the deployment of soldiers to some states in the South West, particularly Lagos, Ogun and Oyo States. The member stated this in a press statement made available to LEA...
Niger-Delta Coastal Communities (NDCC) has threatened to shut down oil installations as more communities continue to be affected by the Bonga oil spill. Communities affected were as at Thursday reported to have risen to 84. This was made known by...
Some men believed to be officials of the State Security Services (SSS) in Kano yesterday swooped on a zonal coordinator of the North West zone of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Dr. Baffa Abdul...
After many decades of erosion havoc in parts of the South-East, the Federal Government has responded to the threat by awarding contracts worth N11.5 billion to contain the threat. But will that solve the deeply-rooted problems? NGOZI OBOH, who has been...
People call him ‘The Youth Ambassador’ while his fans identify him as Areafada. Mr. Charles Oputa is one man in Nigeria that has used his fame and fortune to touch lives across his fatherland. He has been in the vanguard of every fight for ...
Olaide Bakare - Okunfulire popularly called Hajia is one of the few cross-over actresses, having acted both in Yoruba and English movies. In this exclusive interview with AJIBADE ALABI, Laide ispeak on what makes her different from her contemporaries a...
The song by Terry Da Rapman ‘Boys Are Not Smiling’ has come to bear since the announcement by the organised labour on Monday to suspend the week long nationwide strike which came to many Nigerians as a shock. It was no surprise that N...
The Lagos rally against fuel subsidy removal by Federal Government of Nigeria, last week brought out different angles from those in show business. The way and manner in which they expressed their opinion was different. While Bimbo Akintola, a cross- ov...
Ahead of the governorship poll and determined to have the last laugh on the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that has ditched him, courtesy its recent controversial gubernatorial primary, embattled Governor Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa State enlists a...
continued from last week Ninth Principle: Gradualism instead of radicalismThis principle is well-established by a hadith of Al-Bukhari. Aishah says that the first verses of the Qur’an were related mostly to heaven and hell. And then after a long ...
Acting on presidential orders, the National Security Adviser (NSA) yesterday set up an investigation panel to probe the circumstances that led to the escape of a suspected member of Boko Haram, Kabiru Sokoto from the hands of a team of police off...
Many police casualties have been recorded in two major bomb blasts in Kano metropolis. The number of casualties couldn't be ascertained at the time of filing this report. One of the bombs went off at the Zone 1 office of the Assistant I...
The Court of Appeal sitting in Enugu, Thursday 19 January, 2012, nullified the election of Hon. Onyebuchi Nwaneri H. of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) representing Ogbaru Federal Constituency in Anambra State. In a unanimous judgement delive...