By Ndahi Marama The military has seized over 2,000 cartons of smoked fishes and many bags of dried meat worth about N50 million from Boko Haram. Deputy Director Army Public Relations and spokesman, 7 Division Nigerian Army, Maiduguri, Colonel Tukur [...]
A young man from Mubende Uganda has invented something worth revealing. The young boy created a land-rover and a laptop from wood. This got many his community people amused at his extremely creative stance. Not long ago, two Nigerian [...]
September 4, 2015
General
Bayern Munich’s Dutch striker, Robben sidelined for a month Bayern Munich’s Dutch striker Arjen Robben has been ruled out of action for a month on Friday after picking up a groin injury in the Netherlands’ 1-0 Euro 2016 qualifying [...]
Student nabbed for giving colleague cake laced with Indian Hemp The Police in Delta have arrested a male undergraduate of Delta State University, Abraka for allegedly giving a female student cake laced with Indian hemp. Police spokesperson, DSP Celestina Kalu said [...]
Mrs. Debby Odutayo, President, EMCOAN Digitization process: The Electronic Media Content Owners Association of Nigeria (EMCOAN) has indicated interest to work with Nigeria Broadcasting Commission (NBC) as the regulatory board expressed willingness to partner with her in the actualization [...]
This is just so sad and heart breaking a Staff of Ikeja Disco Company was yesterday electrocuted on a high tension cable in front of the Police College Ikeja. who according to sources who where eye witnesses and took photos [...]
September 4, 2015
Incidents
Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney admitted on Friday that he knows little about new signing Anthony Martial, but backed the French teenager to prove a success at Old Trafford. United sent shock waves across Europe on Tuesday when they bought 19-year-old [...]
A 33-year-old unemployed, John Ena, charged with stabbing his neighbour with a bottle on her head for playing loud music, was on Wednesday arraigned in Lagos. Ena, a resident of No. 13, Palace Road, Alagbado, Lagos, is being tried for [...]
September 4, 2015
Incidents
Nigerian Woman Running For President : Meet Helen Mukoro, a Nigerian-Spanish Lawyer who hailed from Delta state.She worked briefly in Delta State Governor’s office before she left Nigeria to Spain in 1992. Nigerian Woman Running For President :Mukoro gained prominence [...]
September 4, 2015
International, Video
Barr Bassey Okon Willie, a witness for the Akwa Ibom governor, Udom Emmanuel and the PDP, told the governorship tribunal sitting in Abuja Friday that he signed all the result sheets for Oron Local Government Area. Willie said this during [...]
Boko Haram: Over 2.1m people flee homes Mounting attacks by Nigeria’s ferocious Boko Haram Islamists have sent more than 2.1 million people fleeing their homes in northeast Nigeria, the International Organization for Migration said Friday. Revising sharply upwards its previous [...]
Lagos – The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it plans to auction N814.78 billion in Treasury bills between Sept. 17 to Dec. 3. According to the bank’s data on Friday, it will auction N215.14 billion worth of the 3-month [...]
By Gbenga Olarinoye Participants at the Osun Osogbo Festival OSOGBO – Last week was particularly busy for tourists and people who cherish tradition and culture of the people of Osogbo in particular [...]
Bokkos (Plateau) – Prof. Attahiru Jega, Chairman, Governing Council, Plateau State University (PLASU), Bokkos on Thursday assumed work by inspecting some projects and presiding over the council’s meeting in Bokkos, near Jos. The projects inspected by the former INEC boss [...]
BY PETER DURU, MAKURDI Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has disclosed that his administration had so far borrowed only N10 billion from financial institutions. The Governor who was reacting to insinuations that his administration was piling debts in the [...]
Desmond Tutu out of hospital after one week South African archbishop Desmond Tutu was discharged from hospital on Friday, his foundation said, after more than two weeks of medical care to treat a nagging infection. Tutu, 83, has been in [...]
By Emem Idio Late Mrs. Ebiegberi Ejor School proprietress death:YENAGOA –THE Amungo Family of Adubabiri compound in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, has appealed to the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, to investigate the circumstances surrounding [...]
By Henry UmoruABUJA- STRONG indications have emerged that crisis looms at the National Assembly as Legislative aides to the Senators and members of the House of Representatives have concluded plans to paralyse activities at the National Assembly on Monday. Vanguard [...]
By Chidi Nkwopara state financial account: OWERRI—Sequel to Imo State government’s acknowledgment of the receipt of Federal Government’s bailout fund, the Catholic Archbishop of Owerri Ecclesiastical Province, His Grace, Most Rev. Anthony J. V. Obinna, has again challenged Governor Rochas [...]
By Chidi Nkwopara OWERRI—Sequel to Imo State government’s acknowledgment of the receipt of Federal Government’s bailout fund, the Catholic Archbishop of Owerri Ecclesiastical Province, His Grace, Most Rev. Anthony J. V. Obinna, has again challenged Governor Rochas Okorocha to publish [...]
By Chidi Nkwopara OWERRI—Sequel to Imo State government’s acknowledgment of the receipt of Federal Government’s bailout fund, the Catholic Archbishop of Owerri Ecclesiastical Province, His Grace, Most Rev. Anthony J. V. Obinna, has again challenged Governor Rochas Okorocha to publish [...]
By Chidi Nkwopara OWERRI—Sequel to Imo State government’s acknowledgment of the receipt of Federal Government’s bailout fund, the Catholic Archbishop of Owerri Ecclesiastical Province, His Grace, Most Rev. Anthony J. V. Obinna, has again challenged Governor Rochas Okorocha to publish [...]
By Evelyn Usman, Bose Adelaja & Yinka Adetona FOLLOWING the death of three persons, when a trailer fell off Ojuelegba bridge last Wednesday, Lagos residents have called on the relevant authorities to regulate the movement of heavy duty trucks in [...]
Idle dollars outside the economy For over five weeks now the Nigerian foreign exchange system has been on drama sketch. It is unbelievable that at a time of harsh economic circumstances manifesting in the form of sharp decline in foreign [...]
By Samuel Oyadongha It was a big relief for the camp of the Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson following the reported settlement of the rift between the governor, former First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan and other stakeholders. Before now there [...]
By Vincent Ujumadu The Anambra State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has been in crisis since 1999. In a deliberate effort to end the crisis, the national leadership of the party recently conducted congresses at the ward, local [...]
By John Egbokhan After the woeful performance of her athletes at the recently concluded IAAF World Athletics Championships in Beijing, Team Nigeria’s contingent to the 11tth All Africa Games starting today in Brazzaville, will be seeking a better outing at [...]