President Muhammadu Buhari is to address other world leaders presently at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, USA, shortly. He is expected to deliver his speech after his Brazilian counterpart, Dilma Rousse, speaks with the delegates at the occasion. Other world leaders to address the Assembly are President Barack Obama of the US…
There was a short unrest at the University of Lagos on Monday morning when some students of the institution staged a demonstration. The aggrieved students claimed they have been battling with invasion of mosquitoes and bedbugs at the hostels. This led to the shutting down of the university’s two exit gates. As early as 7am…
Suspected members of Boko Haram militants attacked some villages in Konduga local council of Borno State in the wee hours of Sunday, leaving not less than 18 persons dead. Eyewitnesses claimed the insurgents stormed the town in motorcycles and Hilux vehicles while residents were fast asleep, unleashing terror on them. The terrorists were said to…
….Urges urgent probe of murders, intimidation of witnesses The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State has cried out to President Muhammadu Buhari, appealing to him to urgently institute a probe into murders in the State associated with the 2015 polls as well as the alleged intimidation of the party’s witnesses at the State Governorship…
President Muhammadu Buhari has promised to start a process that would try those involved shady oil deals in the country. The President made this known on Sunday during a meeting with President Xi Jinping of China at the 70th General Assembly of the United Nations in the United States. He further said that all those…
Brother to the immediate past Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Attahiru Jega, Abdulkadir, has been confirmed as one of the Nigerians that died in the Hajj stampede in Mecca, Saudi Arabia last Thursday. Abdulkadir, who is a judge, was among the two Court of Appeal Justices that lost their lives in the…
A lawmaker in the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Ishola Akeem Shokunle from Oshodi/Isolo Constituency 1 has come hard on corrupt public office holders, saying that any public officer that is guilty of corruption should be executed. He said; ‘I support total or absolute punishment for corrupt public office holders, it is Sharia Law.…
Former Nigeria’s Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has condoled with families of those who died in Thursday’s stampede in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Some of the pilgrims, who were observing the ritual stoning of the devil in Mecca during the Hajj pilgrimage, died in a pandemonium. More than 740 Muslims lost their lives, while over 800 persons…
Five suspected oil pipeline vandals were apprehended on Saturday in Edo State by officials of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, with two tankers containing 66,000 litres of crude oil. The hoodlums were arrested by the Civil Defence in Benin City, the state capital, according to the State Commandant of the NSCDC, Chuka…
Former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Adamu Mu’azu and some prominent Nigerians had a close shave with death in the Thursday’s stampede in Saudi Arabia, which left over 700 pilgrims dead. According to The Nation, former Special Adviser on National Assembly, Kashim Imam and former National Chairman of the defunct CPC, Senator…