Buhari meets Osinbajo, security chiefs behind closed doors
OLALEKAN ADETAYO President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday met Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and security chiefs behind closed doors at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting was Buhari’s first...
View ArticleDon’t resume without approval, Senate warns CCB, PenCom, ICPC heads
Leke Baiyewu The Senate has warned nominees for the leadership of three Federal Government institutions, whose names were recently announced, against resuming work until their nominations are...
View ArticleBuhari’s return, answer to our prayers —Tinubu
BAYO AKINLOYE The All Progressives Congress National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has expressed joy at the return of President Muhammadu Buhari to the country after his medical vacation in the United...
View ArticlePolice identify six suspects in Bayelsa APC secretariat attack
Simon Utebor and Chidiebube Okeoma The police in Bayelsa State have identified six suspects in connection with the attack on the state Secretariat of the All Progressives Congress that led to the...
View ArticleSultan urges Muslims to watch out for new moon
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, has urged Muslims to watch out for the new moon of Dhulhajj1 438AH from August 22. The Sultan said this in a statement issued by the Chairman, Advisory...
View ArticleNigerian women light-up Saudi Arabia over Buhari
Some Nigerian Pilgrims currently performing this year’s pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia have joined thousands of other citizens at home in celebrating President Muhammadu Buhari’s returm from London. The...
View ArticleMan kills eight-year-old girl, removes organs
Chukwudi Akasike There was panic in Eliozu axis of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Saturday, when the body of an eight-year-old girl, Victory Chikamso, who was abducted, was recovered with her tongue,...
View ArticleJubilation in Abuja, others as Buhari returns after 104 days
Olalekan Adetayo, Ifeanyi Onuba, Okechukwu Nnodim and Olaide Oyelude There was wild jubilation in Abuja, Katsina and other parts of the country on Saturday as President Muhammadu Buhari returned to the...
View ArticleSouthern monarchs to Sultan: Nigerians want full restructuring, opposing it...
OLUFEMI ATOYEBI, FEMI MAKINDE, KAMARUDEEN OGUNDELE, SIMON UTEBOR, ETIM EKPIMAH, PETER DADA, CHIDIEBUBE OKEOMA, and GIBSON ACHONU First-class traditional rulers across the southern parts of Nigeria have...
View ArticleHoodlums kidnap businessman’s daughter in Katsina
Olaide Oyelude Hoodlums have kidnapped Nana Mansur, daughter of a popular businessman in Katsina State, Mansur Abubakar, after their failed attempts at getting her father. Sources in the town stated...
View ArticleFinland marks minute of silence for stabbing victims
Finland observed a minute of silence on Sunday for the victims of a stabbing attack in the city of Turku that left two people dead and eight injured. Friday’s stabbing is being investigated as the...
View ArticleCatalonia is Spain’s fertile ground for terrorists – analysts
Despite its long experience in fighting terrorism, Spain failed this past week to prevent two deadly attacks in Catalonia — a key tourist magnet but also the Spanish region most vulnerable to such...
View ArticleSpain mourns attack victims as Imam believed to have radicalised attackers...
Grief-stricken Barcelona paid homage Sunday to victims of two terror assaults at a mass in the city’s Sagrada Familia church, as investigators turned their focus to a missing Moroccan imam believed to...
View ArticleAnambra election won’t hold, IPOB insists
Mr. Darlington Chukwubuikem Okolie, the media aide to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has denied a report that IPOB has withdrawn its threat to stop the governorship...
View ArticleKano, Dangote donate N1bn to fire disaster victims
The Kano State Government and Dangote Group have donated N500m each as assistance to victims of the fire outbreak that occurred early this year in five major markets in Kano. The News Agency of Nigeria...
View Article20 gas canisters found for ‘one or more’ attacks in Barcelona – Police
Police said Sunday they have found more than 120 gas canisters in a house in Alcanar, where suspects of this week’s twin assaults in Spain were believed to be building bombs for “one or more” attacks...
View ArticleBREAKING: Ortom’s aide assassinated in Makurdi
John Charles, Makurdi Gunmen ON Sunday broke into the residence of the Principal Special Assistant on Knowledge Economy and Investments to Benue State Governor, Dr Tavershima Adyorororough, and killed...
View ArticleDiary of Buhari’s medical vacation
President Muhammadu Buhari, who assumed office on May 29, 2015, had earlier embarked on a six-day vacation in the United Kingdom between February 5 and 10, 2016. On June 6, 2016, he embarked on another...
View ArticleNigerians welcome Buhari, list demands
Chukwudi Akasike, bayo akinloye, Tobi Aworinde, Godwin Isenyo and OVIE OKPARE A cross section of Nigerians have expressed joy over President Muhammadu Buhari’s return and listed their demands on him....
View ArticleEast-West Road: Mitee sues FG
Chukwudi Akasike, Port Harcourt A former president of Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, Mr. Ledum Mitee, has dragged the Federal Government to a Federal High Court in Port Harcourt over...
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