Fuel tanker falls again in Imo
TRAGEDY struck again in Umuapu, Ohaji/ Egbema Local Council of Imo State in the early hours of yesterday when a fully-loaded fuel tanker said to have lifted fuel from Port Harcourt, Rivers State to Imo...
View ArticleDecomposing body of kidnapped lecturer found
Ambrose Alli University, 70-year-old pastor regains freedom PRECISELY 105 days after he was kidnapped, the decomposing body of Dr Paul Erie, a lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Economics and...
View ArticleGay party goes awry in Edo
IN apparent defiance of the Same Sex Prohibition Act which attracts 14 years imprisonment if convicted, homosexuals have continued to display their lifestyle in some parts of Nigeria as a gay party...
View ArticleGeneral Yakubu Gowon’s Address to Nigerians on October 1, 1967 (2)
General Yakubu Gowon Being concluding text of speech by former President Yakubu Gowon to mark Nigeria’s Independence anniversary on October 1, 1967. “It is on record that the Federal Military...
View ArticleJonathan on nigeria @ 50 (2)
Jonathan In the fields of science and technology, education, the arts, entertainment, scholarship, and diplomacy, Nigerians have distinguished themselves in spite of the enormous hurdles they encounter...
View Article‘Everybody was in a hurry to throw pebbles’
Returning pilgrims from Mecca at the MMIA, Hajj camp Nigerian pilgrims return from Mecca, link stampede to impatience SOME Nigerian pilgrims coming through Murtala Muhammed International Airport,...
View ArticleSanusi wants details of Hajj tragedy victims published on Internet
THE Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II, on Wednesday urged the Saudi Arabia government to publish details of victims of the Mina stampede on a dedicated website. More than 749 pilgrims died and...
View ArticleIbusa elite lament perpetual power outage in community
Hon Barrister, Pat Ajudua (left), Mrs Florence Izagbo, Nzele Austin Abua, Mrs Regina Olisemeka, Chairman of the occasion, Ambassador Ignatius Olisemeka, Gladys Halim and President General, Ibusa...
View ArticleFayose calls for probe of past leaders
Fayose EKITI State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has called for the probe of all past leaders in the Fourth Republic to bring sanity in the system. Fayose in his 55th independence anniversary broadcast...
View ArticleTeachers shun NLC strike in Cross River
Teachers in public primary and secondary schools in Calabar on Friday shun the strike called by the state chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) investigation...
View ArticleTOTI walks against deadly lupus disease
Kehinde Oshadipe(second right) with friiends at the eventTHE Oshadipe Twins Initiative (TOTI) recently organized a walk to create awareness against the deadly lupus disease, which killed one of the...
View ArticleMimiko absorbs 900 NCE teachers into primary schools
MimikoTHE Ondo State government has increased the number of teachers in primary schools in the state with an additional 900 National Certificate in Education (NCE) holders. According to the state’s...
View Article‘Fish out the criminals now’
Governor Ortom in a group picture with some of the parents of kidnapped children at Benue Peoples’ House, MakurdiGov. Ortom orders security agents to track down kidnappers in Benue WORRIED by the...
View ArticlePayPorte donates relief materials to Malkohi IDPs in Yola
File PhotoAS part of activities to mark its first year anniversary, PayPorte – Africa’s retail online store, has donated assorted relief materials to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Malkohi...
View ArticleMan, 32, slits own throat, genitals
A MIDDLE-AGED trader, Mallam Rabiu Muhammad of Dan Tsinke village in Kano, was last Thursday found soaked in his own blood in his room with throat slit and private part cut off. Still breathing but...
View ArticleLover of strangled NYSC member released by police in Ibadan
Late Omolola THE lover of the 29-year-old corps member strangled in Ibadan, Olusola Babalola, who was held by the police, has been released from police custody. Babalola was released last Thursday...
View ArticleAiyetoro ocean-surge victims laud Ondo govt for relief materials
Presentation of relief materials to community leaders • Urge Mimiko to put pressure on FG over embankment project VICTIMS of the Aiyetoro sea surge in Ilaje Local Council of Ondo State have commended...
View Article‘Save us from threats to our existence’
Some community dwellers during the protest • ERA, Edo State communities decry indiscriminate land use by multinationals THE Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria, ERA/FoEN has...
View Article10 Islamic fundamentalists, one soldier killed in Okene
Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai A RAID on the base of some Islamic fundamentalists in Okene town in Kogi State has led to the death of about 10 members of an Islamic sect and a soldier....
View ArticleFormer National Mirror MD, Bola Onanuga for burial
Late Bola Onanuga THE remains of Mr. Bola Onanuga, the pioneer managing director of National Mirror, will be lowered to mother earth this week in Ijebu-Modi Mosan, Ijebu Ode, Ogun State. Onanuga, one...
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