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Benue police recover remains of slain officer’s wife from shallow grave Again, armed bandits attacked Birnin-Gwari Community in Kaduna State yesterday, kidnapping a primary school headmaster, AbdulHafiz Abdullahi and two others victims at Doka Filling Station. The bandits also shot ...

Minister of Interior, Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola, has charged civil society and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to campaign against drug addiction and encourage youths to key into government’s development programmes. Aregbesola, who stated this when members of Centre for Peace and Environmental ...

A professor of pharmacology at the University of Maiduguri, Prof. Isa Marte Hussaini, has decried the government’s failure to fund Research and Development (R&D) in the country. He lamented that Nigeria spends less than one per cent of its Gross ...

The Igbo Youth Assembly (IYA) Worldwide, has described calls for zoning of the 2023 presidency by some elder statesmen in the country as coming too early. In a statement issued by its President General, Ifeanyi Nwaudunna, the group urged Nigerians ...

A prosecuting witness has told Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court sitting in Abuja how a former Revenue Officer with the Kano State zonal office of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Aliyu Yakubu, siphoned the board’s N20m. The ...

In his efforts to revive the state’s cultural heritage, Imo State Governor Emeka Ihedioha has pledged that he will not relegate Igbo culture to the background. He noted that his administration will revive the rich cultural values of Igbo people ...

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has described the abduction of about nine children in Kano State as worrisome, urging Nigerians to expose perpetrators of evil and criminality in the country. Its National Publicity Secretary, Muhammad Ibrahim Biu, in a statement ...

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the 19 Northern States and Abuja has faulted the Muslim Rights Concerned (MURIC) for linking Christianity with kidnapping, banditry and other crimes in the country. Specifically, the group said the attention of its ...

Two elders loyal to the two contending political parties in the November 16, 2019 gubernatorial election in Bayelsa, almost engaged each other in a fisticuff at a stakeholders meeting organised by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Yenagoa. Consequently, ...

The Bayelsa State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has inaugurated its 2019 Governorship Campaign Council, insisting that the party was in a better position than the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to win the November 16 gubernatorial election. State ...