Shiites bury Kabul mosque attack victims
Hundreds of Shiite mourners on Saturday buried victims of a suicide bomb and gun attack on a mosque in Kabul as the death toll from the atrocity rose to 28. Distraught relatives and friends carried...
View ArticleNorth Korea fires short-range missiles
North Korea fired three short-range ballistic missiles Saturday, the US military said, reviving tensions with Washington after President Donald Trump had said Pyongyang was starting to show some...
View ArticleIGP collects N120bn annually from firms, VIPs –Senator Misau
Leke Baiyewu and Adelani Adepegba The senator representing Bauchi Central Senatorial District in the upper chamber of the National Assembly, Isah Misau, has taken a swipe at the Inspector General of...
View ArticleWe’ll prevent plane crashes with training of NAF officers –CAS
Femi Makinde, Osogbo The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, has said that with proper training of pilots, aircraft engineers, and other officers, the Nigerian Air Force will prevent air...
View ArticleCut-off mark: JAMB rectified 400,000 irregular admissions in one year –Registrar
Gbenro Adeoye and Tunde Ajaja In the last one year, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has regularised over 400,000 admissions for students who had scored below cut-off marks, among various...
View ArticleKashamu planning to kill me, ex-Gov Daniel cries out
Olusola Fabiyi, Abuja A former Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, has petitioned the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris; and the Director-General of the Department of State...
View ArticleNiger Delta monarchs laud Buhari’s anti-corruption fight
The Traditional Rulers of Oil Mineral Producing Communities of Nigeria, have commended President Muhammadu Buhari for making conscious efforts to eliminate corruption in the country. The association...
View ArticleOPC warns over eviction threat to Yoruba
A pan-Yoruba group, the Oodua People’s Congress, has called on leaders and stakeholders in the southern part of the country to caution the Niger Delta Agitators over its threat of eviction of the...
View ArticleRestructuring can’t work in Nigeria –Kogi Unity Forum
Friday Olokor, Jos A socio-cultural organisation, Kogi Unity Forum, has said that restructuring, as good as it sounds, cannot work in the present political arrangement in Nigeria. The President of the...
View ArticleIPOB rejects quit notice withdrawal, urges Igbo to leave North
Ihuoma Chiedozie, Chukwudi Akasike, Kunle Falayi, Chidiebube Okeoma, and John Charles The Indigenous People of Biafra has rejected the withdrawal of the quit notice issued to Igbo in the northern part...
View ArticleThree killed in Indian Kashmir clash with militants
Government forces in Indian-administered Kashmir were battling suspected rebels Saturday after they stormed a police facility in a pre-dawn attack and killed one officer and two paramilitary troops,...
View ArticleTrump signs memo banning transgender troops
President Donald Trump on Friday signed a memo effectively barring transgender people from joining the US military, but left the fate of those already serving up to the Pentagon. In a widely...
View ArticleMan shouting Allahu Akbar attacks Buckingham Palace
A man who attacked police with a knife outside Queen Elizabeth II’s Buckingham Palace residence in London has been arrested under the Terrorism Act, police said Saturday. The 26-year-old attacker...
View ArticleNorth Korea fires short-range missile
North Korea fired three short-range ballistic missiles Saturday, the US military said, reviving tensions with Washington after President Donald Trump had said Pyongyang was starting to show some...
View ArticleMonarchs in oil producing states commend Buhari for anti-graft war
Monarchs on the platform of Traditional Rulers of Oil Mineral Producing Communities of Nigeria have commended President Muhammadu Buhari for making conscious efforts to eliminate corruption in the...
View ArticleRecruitment: Navy releases timetable for final selection interview
The Nigerian Navy on Friday released a newly-adjusted timetable for final selection of successful candidates for the 2017 recruitment exercise. This is contained in a statement signed by the Ag....
View ArticleThree die in Owerri market protest
Three people were killed on Saturday in a protest by Owerri natives following the demolition of the Eke Onunwa market by the state government. But the Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Andrew...
View ArticleTrump pardons Arizona sherrif convicted in racial profiling case
US President Donald Trump on Friday pardoned controversial former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was convicted last month of criminal contempt for illegally targeting Hispanic immigrants. In his first...
View ArticleCut-off mark: NANS threatens to call for scrapping of JAMB
The National Association of Nigerian Students has threatened to call for the scrapping of Joint Admission and Matriculation Board if it failed to reverse the low cut off points for admission into...
View ArticleTrump’s security adviser Gorka quits White House
Divisive Donald Trump aide Sebastian Gorka departed the White House Friday in a shroud of controversy, with conflicting claims about whether he resigned or got the boot. “Sebastian Gorka did not...
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