At least four people have been killed including the Chief Imam of Gima, with several others sustained various degrees of injury when armed members of Boko Haram terrorists invaded Ngulde Community of Askira -Uba local government area in Borno. The terrorists according to investigation were only confined in Tuga, a riverine community, but now deserted,…
Leaders of the three main socio-cultural organizations in Benue State, under the auspices of the Mdzough U Tiv, MUT, Ochetoha KโIdoma, OKI and Omi NyโIgede, ONI, have vowed to resist the Miyetti Allahโs plot to create its vigilante group in the State. The leaders maintained that a group whose members had allegedly unleashed mayhem in…
The Nigeria High Commission in Kenya has refuted an online media report alleging the targeting and killing of Nigerians in the East African country. In a statement issued in Nairobi on Saturday, a copy of which was received by the News Agency of Nigeria, the Commission described the story as a concoction replete with falsehood….
Hundreds of mourners are lining up in central Moscow to bid farewell to Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union often credited with bringing an end to the cold war. The farewell ceremony, which is being held in the Hall of Pillars in Moscowโs House of theUnions will be followed by a closed…
Former Governor of Kaduna State, Senator Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi has said that the insecurity bedeviling Nigeria was confined to the Northeast when the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) was in power, but it has escalated to all parts of Nigeria under the All-Progressives Congress (APC). Senator Makarfi , also a former Chairman of the PDP, assured…
It is only Lagos that has a film commission. The absence in other states makes it a bit difficult to expand film production across the country.
Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has urged lecturers at the state-owned Niger Delta University (NDU) to end their seven-month-long sympathy strike with the national body of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Governor Diri insisted that the sympathy industrial action by lecturers of the university was no longer justifiable as they have been…
The scheduled meeting of 21 presidential aspirants of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Abuja could not hold, yesterday, despite series of pre-event publicity in the days leading to the parley. The roundtable earlier slated for 2pm at Transcorp Hilton, was for the aspirants to come up with viable strategies to support the APC standard…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Campaign Spokesman, Mr. Festus Keyamo, Wednesday, berated Delta State Governor, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Vice Presidential Candidate Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, over comments he made to ridicule the APC, presidential running made Kashim Shettima. Reacting to an online report in a tweet monitored by Erevison MediaTV, Keyamo cited the…
โฆAtiku having sleepless nights over Wikeโs demands, interests around ex-VP not disposed to requestsโฆAyu may resist stepping downโPDP source There are indications that presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar may have driven into a political cul-de-sac over conditions listed by Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and National Chairman of…
