Buhari promises to address lopsided appointments, insecurity
Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday assured religious leaders and all Nigerians that his administration would address rising concerns of corruption, insecurity and injustices...
View ArticleVote and die, IPOB threatens Anambra residents
Adelani Adepegba, Kunle Falayi, Olaleye Aluko and Tony Okafor One week to the governorship election in Anambra State, the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra has threatened voters with death if they...
View ArticleBritain’s Prince Charles steps up as Queen steps back
On Remembrance Sunday, Prince Charles will lay Queen Elizabeth II’s wreath honouring Britain’s war dead as she watches on — a rare public symbol of the 91-year-old gradually scaling back her duties....
View ArticlePro-independence Catalans to protest in Barcelona
A protest is expected in Barcelona Saturday calling for the release of jailed separatist leaders, the day after pro-independence Catalan parliamentarian Carme Forcadell was freed on bail. Separatists...
View ArticleNLC, NUT accuse el-Rufai of plotting to sack 21,000 teachers, others
Adelani Adepegba and Tunde Ajaja The Nigeria Labour Congress has accused Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, of planning to sack 30,000 workers including teachers, local government workers and other...
View ArticlePSN to support 150 firms for drug manufacturing
Jesusegun Alagbe The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria has said in its bid to grow the pharmaceutical sector and contribute to the growth of the Nigerian economy, it is set to support 150...
View ArticleCrocodile snatches child on tourist island
A 12-year-old girl is missing after being attacked by a crocodile on the Philippine island of Palawan, police said Saturday, just weeks after a similar incident in the region popular with foreign...
View ArticleCAN meets Buhari, insists Nigeria must withdraw from religious groups
Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja Leaders of the Christian Association of Nigeria on Friday met with President Muhammadu Buhari behind closed doors, renewing their call for the Federal Government to withdraw the...
View ArticleInternational body rates Nigeria Police the worst globally
.We are rated the best in UN peace-keeping –Spokesman Adelani Adepegba, Abuja The World Internal Security and Police Index International has rated the Nigeria Police Force as the worst police...
View ArticleMan drags Unilorin ex-VCs, others to court over ‘abduction’ of wife
Success Nwogu, Ilorin A complainant, Mr. Abubakar Abdulkareem, has dragged former vice-chancellors of the University of Ilorin, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede and Prof. Abdulganiyu Ambali; Chief Imam of the...
View ArticleBreakaway Somaliland to elect new president
The self-proclaimed state of Somaliland will vote for a new president on Monday, hoping to continue a series of democratic transitions of power that sets it apart from its troubled neighbour Somalia....
View ArticleTrump, a warmonger – North Korea
US President Donald Trump was due to land in Hanoi on Saturday, as North Korea slammed his “warmonger” Asia tour, saying it will only accelerate Pyongyang’s push for a full-fledged nuclear deterrent....
View ArticleNarrow gauge lines: GE investing $2.7bn on infrastructure, maintenance
The Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi on Saturday said General Electric was investing $2.7bn on infrastructure, Operation and Maintenance of the entire narrow gauge lines concession....
View ArticleTsav urges IGP to investigate unresolved assassinations in Benue
Alhaji Abubakar Tsav, Public Complaints Commissioner, overseeing Benue, has urged the Inspector-General of Police, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris, to stop rising incidences of assassination in the state. Tsav, a...
View ArticleStudents, nursing mother win at Adeleye Foundation race
Patrick Medayese, a 26-year-old Mechanical Engineering student of Federal Polytechnic in Idah, on Saturday won the annual 10km race organised by the S.O. Adeleye Foundation in Kabba, Kogi. The News...
View ArticleNigeria Police reject ranking as world’s worst
The Nigeria Police Force has gunned down the latest ranking by The International Police Association and the Institute for Economics and Peace, that puts it at the bottom of the world police formations....
View Article65-year-old man arrested for allegedly molesting teenage boy
The Nigeria Police, Niger State Command said it arrested a 65-year-old man, Patrick Kalu, of railway quarters, Minna for allegedly having anal sex with a 15-year-old boy. Superintendent of Police,...
View ArticleRestriction on Russian media is attack on free speech, says Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday said Russia would respond in kind to what he said were Washington’s measures to restrict the freedom of speech of Russian media organisations operating on...
View ArticleBoko Haram kills three soldiers in ambush
At least three Nigerian soldiers and a militiaman were killed in a Boko Haram ambush on the edge of Sambisa forest near the border with Cameroon, military and militia sources told AFP Saturday. The...
View ArticleMercedes team members robbed at gunpoint in Brazil
British motor racing star Lewis Hamilton on Saturday urged Formula One to improve security after armed robbers held up members of his Mercedes team outside the Brazilian Grand Prix circuit. “Some of my...
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