“All vehicular movement within the Maiduguri city is banned from Monday, 28th to Wednesday, 30th July, 2014,” the Nigerian Army in Borno has declared. This came after the military claimed it had an intelligent report that members of Boko Haram sect have planned to attack worshippers during the end of Ramadan celebration. “The report at…
What would have been a bloody Ed Fitr celebration in Kano was averted in Kano by the state Police Command. The Kano Commissioner of Police, Aderenle Shinaba, addressing journalists in the state, disclosed that a car loaded with explosives was discovered at the Kano Eid prayer ground on Saturday. According to police chief, a 406…
Iconic Ivorian footballer, Didier Drogba, has rejoined his former boss and club, Jose Mourinho and Chelsea respectively. The club announced the signing of its former striker, who left the club about one and half years ago to ply his trade in Turkey with Galatasaray. Drogba, a former African footballer of the year, returns to Stamford…
A gun duel between men of the Nigerian Military and the Shiite Muslims on Friday has left no fewer than four persons dead in Zaria, Kaduna State. The clash was as a result of protest staged by the Islamic group over the ongoing war between Israeli soldiers and the Palestinian militant group in Gaza called…
Abdullateef Abdulkareem, a former member of Lagos House of Assembly and a former Special Adviser to Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola on Political and Legislative Powers, has married a third wife, and also planning to pick the fourth one later in the year. Abdulkareem, a lawyer and the Chief Imam of the Lagos House of Assembly…
The Nigerian government has informed the Liberian Embassy that its citizen believed to be suffering from the deadly Ebola virus has died in Lagos. The message was relayed to the Liberian government on Friday morning by the Nigerian Embassy. The victim, Patrick Sawyer, a WASH consultant at the Ministry of Finance, was quarantined on Sunday…
Nigeria’s former Head of State, Muhammadu Buhari, has claimed that the bombers that attacked him on Wednesday in Kuwa area of Kaduna wanted to assassinate him. The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, narrowly escaped death in the bomb explosion, which occurred some minutes after a first bomb went off in Kaduna. In…
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has expressed gratitude to God for sparing the life of former Head of State, Muhammadu Buhari, in one of the two blasts that happened in Kaduna on Wednesday. Jonathan, in a statement issued on Wednesday by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Reuben Abati, also extended the same gratitude to…
Former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and current Emir of Kano, Lamido Sanusi, on Wednesday, paid a courtesy visit to President Goodluck Jonathan for the first time since his ascension to the exalted Kano throne. The monarch was at the Presidential Villa in Aso Rock, Abuja, for the breaking of Ramadan fast with…
A former Arsenal player, Freddie Ljungberg, has tied the knot with his lover, Natalie Foster. Their union was legalised in June 2014 at the Natural History Museum in London, England. Ljungberg’s wife is fan of Arsenal’s city arch-rival, Tottenham in the Barclay Premier League. The two lovebirds met about seven years ago while the Swedish…