Traders at the Abubakar Gummi Central Market, Kaduna, and those who trooped into the market for Christmas purchases were yesterday thrown into pandemonium as a 33,000 -litre tanker burst into flames while in the process of discharging its content at th...
President of the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU), Prof. Ukachukwu Awuzie said the ongoing strike is not aimed at frustrating students as speculated in some quarters. He said, rarther,...
On December 13, General Muhammadu Buhari, presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) for the 2011 poll and also chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees inaugurated a renewal committee meant to embark on a membership dri...
The Minister of Trade and Investment, Dr. Olusegun Aganga, has noted that job creation through local manufacturing of products was critical to the economic development of Nigeria. Aganga stated this when he received in audience investors from Slovenia ...
Following the repeated predictions by meteorologists and experts of torrential rainfall that pose to overrun the whole of Lagos State next year, the state government has allayed fears of Lagosians, saying necessary steps have been taken to avert flood ...
Governor Umaru Tanko Al-Makura of Nasarawa State, has appealed to Fulanis to be at peace with their Tiv counterparts and other citizens of the state, to give room for the state to develop. The governor, who made the appeal when Fulani leaders from the ...
The sacked Permanent Secretary, Bureau of Computer Services and Information Technology in Osun State, Engineer Abiodun Oladapo has denied the allegations against him that he misappropriated a sum of N2.5billion meant for the provision...
The Gubernatorial flag bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State, Hon. Seriake Dickson yesterday presented his running mate, Rear Admiral John Jonah, to the leadership and members of the party in the state, saying the choice of his ...
A 14-year-old, Yusuf Mohammed of Bindigari ward Damaturu in Yobe State has been sentenced on a three-count charge of criminal conspiracy, shop-breaking and attempt to commit an offence of theft; offences punishable under sections 97, 355, 95 of the pen...
The Senior Magistrate’s Court II, sitting in Damaturu, Yobe State capital, presided over by Abubakar Bukar Kagu, has sentenced a 24- year-old man, Kabiru Habu to two years in prison, without an option of fine for criminal use of force and t...
The Gubernatorial candidate of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Rivers State, Dr. Abiye Sekibo has said the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will become a maximum security prison before the 2015 general election in the country. Sekibo, who made...
Police detectives in Asaba, Delta State have arrested four suspected robbers and recovered lives cartridges from their room. Reports said the suspects have been terrorising farmers and residents of Asaba in the recent times. Besides, they are also said...
On March 22, 2012, the entire world will meet at a grand conference in France with each country presenting a score card on its performance in the supply of water to its people and the gains individual countries have recorded in Food Security. But for N...
The outspoken Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Donor Agencies and Dean of the Faculty of Initiatives, Hon. Eseme Sunday Eyiboh in this exclusive interview with TORDUE SALEM of LEADERSHIP SUNDAY, speaks on the faculty’s recent...
At 70, Alhaji Musa Maigida Abdu, chairman of the Unity Forum has spearheaded so many peace talks in Nigeria. In this interview with MICHAEL OCHE, he talks about his life at 70 and the many crises that have bedeviled the country. You recently cl...