A former member of the National Assembly, Usman Tsauri has faulted the federal government on the recent threat to national security, insisting that federal government has failed the nation. Senator Tsauri, who represented Katsina central at the upper c...
Fishermen and indigenes of the Odioma Community in Nembe-speaking Ijaw Community of Brass local government area of Bayelsa State on Tuesday raised an alarm over the gradual spread of crude oil spill suspected to be from Shell’s Bonga Field into t...
As security remains tight in Suleja, Niger State following the Christmas Day bomb blast, facts are emerging as to why the Boko Haram sect always chooses Suleja as its target even when the state capital, Minna, and other major cities in the state remain...
President of the Amalgamated Traders Association of Nigeria, Alhaji Bature Abdul-Aziz, has urged the federal government to come up with a deliberate policy that would give indigenous businessmen adequate protection in view of the prevailing domin...
One of the parishioners at St. Theresa’s Catholic Church in Madalla, near Suleja, Niger State, Mr. Patrick Okpalla, has described the Christmas Day bombing in the church as unprecedented, saying he only escaped death through divine intervention. ...
Prominent lawyers yesterday expressed divergent views over the Supreme Court judgment of December 16, 2011 in which it declined jurisdiction to entertain an appeal on 10 National Assembly seats by Senator Yakubu Lado faction of the Katsina ...
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the 19 Northern States and Abuja chapter yesterday said the bombings and killing of Christians on Christmas Day in Madalla, Niger State and Jos, capital of Plateau State, were an invitation to religious war...
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), have faulted the comment made by President Goodluck Jonathan alluding that Nigerians must live with the burden of bombings until it sto...
The Gada Biu area of Jos north local government of Plateau State is under tension following the arrest of one person suspected to be attempting to plant a bomb at the Gada Biu over head bridge. Gada Biu was the scene of the multiple bomb blasts t...
The lawmaker representing Lavun/Mokwa/Edati federal constituency, Hon. Sani Mohammed Kutigi (PDP, Niger State) has called for peaceful relationship among Muslims and Christians in the country. Speaking to journalists in Abuja, Kutigi said harmonious re...
Police Commissioners, Divisional Police Officers and Area Commanders will hence-forth be held responsible for attacks in their domain. The Assistant Inspector General of Police zone 12, Mr. Muhammad Dikko Abubakar stated this yesterday in Bauchi...
Jigawa State government has reiterated its commitment to the polio eradication campaign despite the discovery of new cases of the virus in the state. The state governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido disclosed this while speaking at the launching of the polio fre...
Youths believed to be supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have clashed with police in Dutsinma Local Government Area of Katsina State over the alleged attempt to remove the billboard of a local politician, Alhaji Abdu Umar. An unconfirmed ...
Some Nigerians and The Muslim Congress (TMC) in Lagos yesterday said the Christmas Day bomb attacks in parts of the country calls for a national emergency. The people told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in separate interviews that the loss of innocen...
The Congress of Progressive Change(CPC) has described the Christmas Day bombings in four northern states as a national tragedy. The national publicity secretary of the party, Rotimi Fashakin, in a statement yesterday, condemned the spate of bombi...