News from the states and all the six (6) geo-political zones of Nigeria.
A Black polythene bag placed in a water chamber beside the Baptist model Nursery/primary school by the ever busy Ahmadu Bello way on Wednesday, caused panic as people thought it contained an explosive. The news went round Kaduna and its environs that a...
Of late, stories about the Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, both sweet and sour, have been in the news. In this interview with KAZEEM AKINTUNDE, Aregbesola speaks on the steps he is taking to restore a healthy socio-economic life for his people, a...
The head of environmental department in Bwari area council, Haruna Ahmed has appealed to the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) to provide equipment to the council to aid it in its sanitation exercise. Speaking during an interview with new...
The ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Niger State has chided the only senator elected on the platform of the Congress for Progress Change (CPC) from the state, Senator Ibrahim Musa over his comments about the state government. The party w...
No fewer than 30 PHCN wooden and concrete poles were destroyed by windstorm in Makurdi on Friday night. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the PHCN poles were destroyed by the windstorm that was preceded by rain, which only lasted 30 minutes...
Four persons were injured early on Sunday morning at the Amike-Aba area of Abakaliki following a clash between a local vigilance group and jubilant fans of Chelsea FC of England. The fans were celebrating Chelsea’s first-ever Union of European Fo...
Minister of Education, Prof Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufa’i, yesterday said University of Abuja is a typical system failure which requires urgent attention and serious overhauling. Rufa’i who disclosed this at the on-going Ministerial Platform on Ke...
Katsina, like most states of the federation, is grappling with challenges posed by youth unemployment. Though it is seen as a common phenomenon, the seemingly good news however is that, the state government has now come up with measures aimed at addres...
Barely a month after some robbers raided a bus and raped some students on Lagos-Benin expressway; the Ogun Poilce Command yesterday said it had foiled a bus robbery attack along Lagos/ Ibadan Expressway. It claimed to have killed four suspects and reco...
A Federal High Court in Yenagoa has fixed May 17 for ruling on the bail application filed by 13 senior officials of Bayelsa Civil Service, standing trial over alleged involvement in a N6 billion wage bill fraud. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) r...
A feeling of anger, trepidation and confusion now pervades Amaewula village in Umuezeoka, Ezza North Local Government Area and Ebonyi State in general, following the tragic news of the murder of a former permanent secretary, Chief Cletus Nwezza by susp...
Following the flag-off of campaign of the Action Congress of Nigeria, (ACN), in the Edo Central Senatorial District (a zone believed to be a strong hold of the opposition PDP) the party’s leaders in the area have concluded that the zone would fal...
Gun-wielding policemen on Tuesday in Lokoja paralysed activities at the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Press Centre in an attempt to arrest hand-set traders protesting against alleged police manhandling of their members. The News Agency of Ni...
Kano State government is working towards ensuring that the construction of the first set of ‘flyover’ bridges to be built in the state, meant for decongesting heavy traffic flow in the metropolis would soon take off. Governor Rabi’u M...
The Joint Task Force (JTF) in Kano State said yesterday that it killed four suspected members of Boko Haram sect at the Ring Road, Hotoron Gabas, in an operation launched in the house of one of the sect members. The JTF reportedly engaged the suspected...