Boko Haram kidnaps wives, children of soldiers
.Nigeria’s military stages a battle of honour after Boko Haram militants’ attack barracks in Bama More information is emerging about the real damages caused by Boko Haram militants who launched a...
View ArticleSouth Sudan: The rebel who wants to topple Kiir
(Reuters) – On a trip to New York last year, South Sudan’s then Vice-President Riek Machar dismissed fears of a military coup in his newborn country, saying such a move would be “unwise”. “We don’t...
View ArticleWammako to politicians: Stop amassing wealth for your children
Governor Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto State in northwestern Nigeria, has called on political office holders to desist from the practice of amassing wealth for their children. The governor made the call at...
View ArticleLetter to Jonathan: Ex-Senate President blasts Obasanjo
. With another 18 page letter Senator Ameh Ebute, a former senate President in the short-lived democratic experiment under the Babangida regime, Saturday, blasted Chief Olusegun Obasanjo for daring to...
View ArticleObasanjo’s letter: Danjuma says no public comment for now
Former Nigeria’s defence minister, General Theophilus Danjuma said he would not make a public comment on the 18 page letter that Nigeria’s former leader, Olusegun Obasanjo sent to President Goodluck...
View ArticleAPC recruits Obasanjo as navigator
Former governor of Lagos State and one of the leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has asked Nigeria’s former leader, Olusegun Obasanjo to serve as a navigator for...
View ArticleOkotie acquires traffic-stopping Rolls Royce Coupe
Pastor Chris Okotie of the Household of God Church International,has added a Rolls Royce Coupe, the 2014 Bespoke Edition, to his acquisitions. The Punch reported that the controversial pastor and...
View ArticleNigeria, US send envoys to strife- torn South Sudan
Envoys from the United States and from Nigeria will fly into Juba Sunday, part of intense diplomatic efforts to avert all-out civil war in South Sudan, an official said. Donald Booth, the US envoy for...
View ArticleNigeria: Police formations on red alert
With few days to Christmas, Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, has put the entire police formations in the country on red alert, to safeguard all Nigerians and public property....
View ArticleDoctors end strike, mull fresh action January
Dr Osahon Enabulele, the National President, Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), on Sunday said doctors in public hospitals would end their five-day warning strike and resume duty on Monday. Enabulele,...
View ArticleRights activist, Shehu Sani eyes Kaduna senate seat
Mr. Shehu Sani, a human rights activist,based in Nigeria’s northern state of Kaduna wants to be a senator. Reports said Sani wants to represent Kaduna Central district, on the platform of the All...
View ArticleNigerian on way to Dubai caught with cannabis
Simon Ateba/Lagos A 34-year old Nigerian trader has been arrested at the Lagos airport over attempt to smuggle 16.335kg of cannabis concealed in foodstuff to Dubai. Obi Chinweike was arrested at the...
View ArticleOkupe blasts Jonathan’s critics, APC leaders
Ademola Adegbamigbe Dr. Doyin Okupe, Senior Special Assistant to The President on Public Affairs, this evening, in Lagos, replied Dr. Goodluck Jonathan’s critics, saying “responsible leaders don’t...
View ArticleJonathan replies Obasanjo, debunks allegations
It is a season of letter writing and President Goodluck Jonathan has capped it with his much awaited response today to former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s 18 page letter, that has triggered a lot of...
View ArticleFull Copy: Jonathan ‘s letter to Obasanjo
The much awaited response by President Goodluck Jonathan to former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s letter has come. Jonathan wrote his open response on 20 December, 18 days after Obasanjo wrote his. The...
View ArticleDino Melaye a beast, alleges ex-wife’s brother
FOLARIN ADEMOSU Since news of their bitter divorce, it has been the word of former House of Representatives member, Dino Melaye, against his former wife’s, Tokunbo Fabiyi. Both have issued separate...
View ArticleMauritania’s ruling party wins parliamentary majority
NOUAKCHOTT(AFP) – Mauritania’s ruling UPR party has won a ruling majority in parliament after a second round of legislative elections, according to results given Sunday. The Union for the Republic...
View ArticleKumuyi stirs fresh controversy in Christendom
Just after Pastor Chris Okotie created some tremor effect by his declaration that ‘Catholics will go to hell’ and that Pope Francis is ‘anti-Christ’, another Pentecostal pastor has stirred yet another...
View ArticleMother Attempts To Kill Day Old Baby
A housewife who cheated on her husband and got pregnant has been arrested by the police at Ajegunle Divisional Headquarters, Mile 12, Lagos, western Nigeria, after she delivered a baby and attempted to...
View ArticleAdvertising Guru, Sesan Ogunro Murdered
—Funsho Arogundade & Ayodeji Dedeigbo Ogunro Marketing communications guru, Mr. Sesan Ogunro Snr., has been shot dead. Ogunro, the Managing Director, of Nigeria’s Eminent Communications, was shot...
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