My committee didn’t investigate Diezani in Senate – Makarfi
GODWIN ISENYO The Chairman, Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, has said the Senate Committee on Finance headed by him did not investigate a former Minister of...
View ArticleBayelsa condemns killing of soldiers in an ambush
Simon Utebor The Bayelsa State Government has condemned the ambush of troops of the Joint Military Task Force in the Niger Delta, Operation Delta Safe, and the killing of some soldiers attached to the...
View ArticleAttacks on oil facilities to resume September 10 — Militants
CHUKWUDI AKASIKE THE Coalition of Niger Delta Agitators has said it will renew its attacks on oil installations in the Niger Delta on September 10. It also stated that the notice to quit issued to...
View ArticleOur hydrogen bomb test successful, says North Korea
North Korea declared itself a thermonuclear power on Sunday, after carrying out a sixth nuclear test more powerful than any it has previously detonated, presenting President Donald Trump with a potent...
View ArticleNorth Korea nuclear test rocks parts of China
North Korea’s nuclear test Sunday was widely felt in northeast China and rocked some cities for as long as eight seconds, according to reports and accounts on social media. The tremor was felt as far...
View ArticleNAF to train officers in Jordan
The Nigeria Air Force is sending some service men for training in Jordan to acquire further skills to strengthen the country’s defence operations. The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadiq Abubakar,...
View ArticleShun corruption, CP tells promoted police officers
Chidiebube Okeoma The Police Public Relations Officer in Imo State, Andrew Enwerem, and eight others have been decorated with the rank of superintendent of police by the state Commissioner of Police,...
View ArticleLAUTECH has 99 bank accounts – Ajimobi
Oyo StateGovernor,Abiola Ajimobi,on Saturday said Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomosho,had 99 bank accounts. He also added that the institution’s school fees might be reviewed to make it...
View ArticleElection annulment: Kenyan judges slam Kenyatta’s ‘veiled threats’
Kenyan judges have slammed the “veiled threats” made by President Uhuru Kenyatta after the judiciary overturned his election on the ground that it was flawed. Calling it “an assault on the judiciary”,...
View ArticleMerkel, Macron seek tougher EU sanctions’ against North Korea
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday urged tougher EU sanctions against North Korea, saying Pyongyang has “reached a new dimension of provocation” with its...
View ArticleBayelsa faults militants’ notice to quit to Yoruba, northerners
Simon Utebor The Bayelsa State Government has described as a huge joke the order of militants in the Niger Delta that by October 1, Yoruba and northerners living in the region should leave. The...
View ArticleCAN urges FG to address economic hardship
ADELANI ADEPEGBA The Christian Association of Nigeria has called on the Federal Government to address the economic hardship and the high cost of living in the country. CAN also appealed to the...
View ArticleI’m going back to fight Boko Haram after treatment, injured soldier insists
Private Samuel Ernest, who is recuperating from an injury at the 7 Division Medical Services and Hospital, Maiduguri, says he go back to the frontline to continue the fight against the terrorists....
View ArticleTrump leads international condemnation of North Korea nuclear test
President Donald Trump led international censure of North Korea’s announcement Sunday that it had tested a hydrogen bomb, saying its actions were “very hostile and dangerous to the United States”....
View ArticleBrutality: Police in Ondo detain two cops
Peter Dada The Ondo State Police Command said it had arrested two policemen accused of brutalising a man at an Automated Teller Machine point in Akure, Ondo State capital. In a video posted on the...
View ArticleSouth Africa deputy president calls affair reports ‘smear’
South Africa’s Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa who is vying to replace President Jacob Zuma has admitted to an extramarital affair but lambasted as “political smear” its revelation in newspapers,...
View ArticleCaution your followers against violence, Sanusi urges political leaders
The Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi, has called on political leaders to caution their followers against acts of violence. Sanusi made the call on Sunday during the traditional Hawan Nasarawa at the...
View ArticleViolence erupts as police kill youth in Osogbo
Femi Makinde, Osogbo Irate residents attempted to raze the Oke Baale Police Station in Osogbo on Sunday following the killing of a youth in the area by a team of policemen from the station. The...
View ArticleTwo policemen killed outside Kenya church
Two Kenyan police officers were killed Sunday by gunmen on a motorbike as they were guarding a church near the Indian Ocean, in an attack police believe could be the work of Shabaab militant. “An...
View ArticleOhanaeze cries foul over shake-up in NNPC
By Olusola Fabiyi, Abuja The apex socio political Organization of Ndigbo, the Ohanaeze, has appealed to President Muhammedu Buhari to revisit the recent reorganisation at the Nigeria National Petroleum...
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