Six persons have been confirmed dead with an unspecified number injured following a bomb explosion that rocked a drinking bar in Mashaya market, Iware Community located in Ardo-Kola Local Government Area of Taraba State. The blast occurred on Tuesday. A visit to the scene of the incident by Channels...
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Justice is central in all human issues, and it has a link with common good. To Thomas Aquinas, Justice is more of external action than interior emotion or passion; it is rendering to each person what is properly his or hers; what is equal, fair and balance in any...
BY RICHARD ABU, Nasarawa – The Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Nasarawa State University, Keffi Dr. Samuel Alu has reiterated the need for the state government to take over the payment of university’s staff salaries in other to ensure the smooth running of academic activities....
Residents of a community in Ondo state were intrigued to see a weird looking car in their area and gathered around it to watch with keen interest. The weird whip called an aeroplane car was built by a Nigerian man and was being driven to Akure from Abuja when...
Sen. Kabiru Gaya, Chairman, The Progressive Project (TPP) says moneybags within and outside the APC will lose their monies in any contest against the people’s will. He said this at a news conference on Thursday in Abuja, on his assumption of office as chairman of TPP. He explained that...
The Federal Government is to train 150, 000 local cooks nationwide. The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Farouq made this known at the Orientation Programme of Facilitators for the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports...
Ex-Anambra State Governor and Presidential aspirant, Peter Obi has promised to turn the country around in four years if elected into office in 2023. Mr Obi stated this in Awka, Anambra State capital during the Anambra Central Senatorial District stakeholders’ briefing/town hall meeting organised by Senator Uche Ekwunife to...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Makurdi cash office is on fire. The cause of the fire is not known but fire fighters were yet to arrive the building located in old GRA in Makurdi as of the time of filing this report. The CBN building in Makurdi is...
The President of Christ Apostolic Church Worldwide, Arogungbogunmi, Pastor Henry Ojo, has said that God told him that only two of the presidential aspirants who have disclosed their intentions so far have the love of the country at heart. He urged Nigerians to shun ethnic and religious sentiments by...
A foundation member of All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Osita Okechukwu says the N100million nomination forms for presidential aspirants is to maintain the axiom of Mr President not to fund the party with public funds. The APC on Wednesday announced the fees to be paid by aspirants for various...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mr. Martins Griffiths has allocated US$15 million emergency funding from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to support urgently needed humanitarian assistance in north-east Nigeria. “The food security and nutrition situation is deteriorating,...
Manchester United have appointed Erik ten Hag as their new manager. The Ajax boss will take over from Manchester United’s interim coach Ralf Rangnick in the summer. Ten Hag said: “It is a great honour” to be appointed manager and that he is “hugely excited by the challenge ahead”....
No fewer than nine persons have been killed by suspected Boko Haram insurgents on Wednesday night during an attack in Geidam community in Yobe state, The locals told newsmen that the suspected insurgents came by foot at around 9pm and moved straight to a drinking joint located at Kwari...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday met with heads of security establishments and some Ministers at the State House in Abuja. The meeting comes after recommendations by the National Council of State over the security challenges in the country. Physically in attendance were the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Secretary to...
The Peoples Democratic Party has again extended the date for its sale of nomination and expression of interest forms to Friday. The last day for the submission of already completed forms is now Monday April 25, 2022. The National Publicity Secretary, Mr Debo Ologunagba, disclosed this in a statement...
The Nigeria Diaspora for Asiwaju (NDA), says sustaining legacies of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC administration lies with delegates to the party’s presidential primaries. Mr Ayobami Oyalowo, NDA National Spokesperson, said this in an open letter to delegates to the party’s presidential primary election slated from May 30 to...
Former Nigerian coach, Gernot Rohr has dragged the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) before FIFA and is awaiting a ruling on a $1m compensation claim for unfair dismissal. Rohr was fired in December, weeks before the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon. The German is the longest-serving Super Eagles...
Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje has condemned the action of some football fans, suspected to be supporters of Kano Pillars football Club. In a statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Abba Anwar, on Wednesday in Kano, the governor slammed the unruly fans for damaging a...
PATRICK ABANG Calabar A frontline governorship aspirant in Cross River State, Imah Nsa Adegoke of the People’s Democratic party (PDP) has said that her mission in politics is to shift the cycle of injustice and inequality in governance in Cross River State. “If the proper parameters of Justice, equity...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – A former Speaker of the 7th Ghanaian Parliament, Aaron Michael Oquaye, has decried the low participation of women in African legislature. Professor Aaron who is a lecturer at the University of Ghana said African political system is polarized and does not favour Women. He noted...