Ebonyi bans embalming of corpses in homes
Clement Nnachi, Abakaliki The Ebonyi State Government has banned the practice of embalming and keeping corpses in homes under the guise of making arrangements for burial by some communities in the...
View ArticleYou’re sick and tired, go home and rest, Fayose tells Buhari
Kamarudeen Ogundele, Ado Ekiti The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has said he stands by all he said about President Muhammadu Buhari on his ill health and therefore has no apology to make to...
View ArticleTyphoon Hato leaves 16 dead in China
The death toll from Severe Typhoon Hato rose to at least 16 Thursday after the storm left a trail of destruction across southern China, blacking out Macau’s mega-casinos and battering Hong Kong’s...
View ArticlePDP inaugurates caretaker committees for Ogun, others, Kashamu kicks
Olusola Fabiyi, Abuja The Chairman of the National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, on Wednesday in Abuja inaugurated caretaker committees for the party in...
View ArticleAkeredolu, Ganduje call for creation of state police
Oladimeji Ramon The Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, and his Kano State counterpart, Abdullahi Ganduje, on Wednesday made a case for the creation of state police, arguing that it is unrealistic...
View ArticleAPC NWC meets next week on national convention
Olusola Fabiyi, Abuja Members of the National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress are meeting in Abuja next week where decisions are expected to be taken on the party’s national...
View ArticleCouple wrongly jailed for sexually assaulting children gets $3.4m
A US couple wrongly jailed for 21 years on charges of sexually assaulting children as part of a satanic cult, were to receive $3.4 million Wednesday from the state of Texas, months after prosecutors...
View ArticleKwara confirms second Lassa fever case
Success Nwogu, Ilorin The Kwara State Government on Wednesday confirmed another case of Lassa fever in the Ifelodun Local Government Area of the state. The Kwara State Commissioner for Information,...
View ArticleFour policemen detained for extortion
Afeez Hanafi The Nigeria Police Force says four men from the Lagos State Police Command have been detained for allegedly extorting money from a resident under duress. The policemen were said to have...
View ArticleMoro elders petition FG, say our LG not under Ilorin emirate
Success Nwogu, Ilorin Some leaders of Moro Local Government Area of Kwara State have petitioned the Presidency, National Assembly, the Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, and security...
View ArticleLagos youths need help, not imprisonment —PRAI
Oluwatosin Omojuyigbe The Executive Director, Prisoners’ Rights Advocacy Initiative, Ahmed Adetola-Kazeem, has decried the poor state of prisons in Lagos State, especially Badagry Prison....
View ArticleSouthern leaders to Buhari: Your claim that Nigeria’s unity is settled not...
Olalekan Adetayo and Gbenga Adeniji The Southern Leaders Forum on Wednesday in Lagos faulted President Muhammadu Buhari’s statement that issues of national discourse should be taken to the National...
View ArticleWorkers boo Oshiomhole for attacking restructuring campaigners
Fidelis Soriwei, Abuja A former Governor of Edo State, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, was on Wednesday booed by workers at a colloquium organised by the Nigeria Labour Congress to discuss the agitation for...
View ArticleAfe Babalola rejects 120 cut-off mark for varsity admission
Folashade Adebayo and Toluwani Eniola The founder of Afe Babalola University Ado Ekiti, Chief Afe Babalola (SAN), on Wednesday slammed the Federal Government for reducing the cut-off mark for admission...
View ArticleASUU justifies strike, accuses Ngige of blackmail
Olufemi Atoyebi, Ibadan The Academic Staff Union of Universities has called on the Minister for Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, to desist from cheap blackmail in the handling of the ongoing...
View ArticleOjukwu’s son disowns IPOB, MASSOB, backs Buhari
Tony Okafor, Awka Emeka Ojukwu (Junior), the son of the late Igbo leader, Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu, on Wednesday affirmed that his late father told President Muhammadu Buhari that he (late Ojukwu) would...
View ArticleCCB workers protest SGF’s order to reinstate retired secretary
Ade Adesomoju, Abuja There was palpable discontent on Wednesday at the Code of Conduct Bureau’s headquarters in Abuja over a directive by the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the...
View ArticleDeath toll from South Asia flooding tops 1,000
The death toll from floods sweeping South Asia has climbed above 1,000, officials said Thursday, as rescue teams try to reach millions stranded by the region’s worst monsoon disaster in recent years....
View ArticleScandal-hit Malaysian PM to visit White House
US President Donald Trump has invited Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak to Washington, officials said Thursday, despite a Justice Department investigation into a major corruption scandal that has...
View Article$1.1bn Malabu oil deal: 48 days after, Jonathan ignores Reps’ invitation
John Ameh, Abuja Forty-eight days after he was invited to testify in the investigations into the controversial sale of Oil Prospecting Licence 245, former President Goodluck Jonathan has yet to reply...
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