“This 13-year-old girl has been forced to marry her 56-year-old Teacher in Kano (Photo)” A Qur’anic School teacher in Kurna Babban Layi area of Kano has perfected plans to marry off his 13-year-old daughter, Bilkisu, to his 56-year-old friend. [...]
December 28, 2016
Culture
The Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar lll, on Tuesday, voiced opposition to a bill seeking to ensure men and women have equal right to inheritance. The Sultan said that the bill was against Islamic religion and, therefore, unacceptable to Muslims. The [...]
The 2016 Calabar Carnival has being promising and aggregating to be the biggest as Bikers took the streets of Carnival by storm with their best of stunts. Ahead of tomorrow’s events, African Biggest Street party, different Bikers across the world [...]
December 28, 2016
Culture
Nigeria’s First Women’s Bobsled Team: Black women athletes showed up and showed out in the 2016 Olympic Games, and slew on a global scale. But if Akuoma Omeoga, Ngozi Onwumere, and Seun Adigun have their say, the excellence won’t end [...]
Rahma Haruna, a teenage girl who spent her life being carried around in a plastic bowl because her body stopped growing when she was a baby has died. Tragic Rahma Haruna became famous around the world after [...]
December 28, 2016
Health issues
The harsh economic situation in the country has thrown 1.7 million Nigerians into the job market in nine months, a report from the National Bureau of Statistics has indicated, according to Punch. The unemployment report, which was obtained by the newspaper on [...]
A top member of the Boko Haram sect has been arrested in the Ikorodu area of Lagos state on Saturday, December 24, 2016. This was revealed by Tukur Buratai, chief of army staff. who made this revealation during the reopening [...]
The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, has disclosed that Nigeria recorded a negative trade balance of N104 billion in third quarter of this year. NBS, which newly released the data in its ‘3rd Quarter 2016 External Trade News: Trade Intensity [...]
Banana bread is always a warm delight for any dinner table. More so during this Christmas and new year season. What could be better than a banana bread? A soft moist banana and nut bread with nuts. We have found [...]
Yushau A. Shuaib writes on the Ibrahim Magu and the saga concerning his role as the head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and his legacy at the helm of the anti-graft commission. Sometimes in July, 2016 while [...]
The Lagos State University, LASU, on Tuesday, December 27, 2016 said that the institution was not on fire as erroneously reported in some national dailies and online media. A statement by the university made available to the News Agency of [...]
Southern Kaduna residents have continued to live in fear following the violence that has taken over the area for some days As the situation continues to escalate, the Nigerian Army has deployed some of its troops to quell further violence [...]
Femi Fani-Kayode writes on the devastating siege on the Christians and ethnic minorities of Southern Kaduna. The people have endured a sustained and systematic ethnic and religious cleansing carried out by the terrorist group, the Fulani herdsmen militia. “Buhari is [...]
Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher has died at the age of 60. Fisher died Tuesday [December 27, 2016] morning after having a massive heart attack on Friday while on a flight from London to Los Angeles, U.S. “It is with [...]
Femi Fani-Kayode writes on the devastating siege on the Christians and ethnic minorities of Southern Kaduna. The people have endured a sustained and systematic ethnic and religious cleansing carried out by the terrorist group, the Fulani herdsmen militia. Read the [...]