How Boko Haram members invaded church, cut church members’ throats – Bishop Posted: 28 Jan 2014 09:32 PM PST "Some people tried to escape through the windows and the attackers shot at them. They cut peoples' throats." This was how the Catholic Bishop of Yola, Mamza Stephen, captured the calamity that... Click the topic above to view more |
Boko Haram Attacks: Death toll in Borno, Adamawa hits 138 Posted: 28 Jan 2014 09:34 PM PST Hours after Boko Haram struck in Borno and Adamawa states, grim details of the attacks emerged yesterday. The death toll rose from 74, which was reported yesterday, to 138. Eighty-five died in... Click the topic above to view more |
What does Bola Tinubu want? By Femi Aribisala Posted: 28 Jan 2014 09:32 PM PST Over the past few years, Bola Tinubu has made himself something of a colossus of South-Western politics in Nigeria. Against the onslaught of vociferous PDP electoral manipulations in 2003, Tinubu... Click the topic above to view more |
PDP Plans to Rig 2015 Elections - El-Rufai Posted: 28 Jan 2014 09:35 PM PST A former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nasir El-Rufai, in spite of his recent detention by the State Security Service, SSS, has accused the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP-led Federal... Click the topic above to view more |
Why we can’t build 4th Mainland Bridge now — Lagos Govt Posted: 28 Jan 2014 09:31 PM PST Lagos State government, yesterday, said the proposed Fourth Mainland Bridge may not be realisable soon because; "With the current plan, 318 buildings will need to be demolished for the bridge to... Click the topic above to view more |
PDP, APC Senators clash over 2014 budget Posted: 28 Jan 2014 09:13 PM PST The Senate on Tuesday began debate on the 2014 Appropriation bill with members disagreeing along party lines on its passage. While the Peoples Democratic Party senators commended the bill and... Click the topic above to view more |
Battle against Boko Haram ‘ll be more forceful - Jonathan Posted: 28 Jan 2014 08:53 PM PST President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday spoke of a change in the tempo of the battle against Boko Haram, following the emergence of new Service chiefs. The excesses of Boko Haram will be reduced... Click the topic above to view more |
Insecurity, funding threaten 2015 elections - Jega Posted: 28 Jan 2014 08:48 PM PST The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday listed the challenges before the 2015 elections. It promised not to use the Addendum Voter Register (AVR) for the poll. The AVR... Click the topic above to view more |
Pastor nabbed for raping 13-yr-old girl Posted: 28 Jan 2014 08:44 PM PST The Police in Imo State have arrested the General Overseer and head of a popular church in Ikeduru council area of the state, for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl. This followed a petition... Click the topic above to view more |
Mu’azu can stabilise PDP - Tambuwal Posted: 28 Jan 2014 08:42 PM PST Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, has expressed confidence that the new National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Adamu Mu'azu, can stabilise the party. Speaking... Click the topic above to view more |
Why I fired service chiefs, by Jonathan Posted: 28 Jan 2014 08:39 PM PST President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, said that he sacked the immediate past service chiefs because of unhealthy competition which made it possible for Boko Haram insurgents to attack the Air Force... Click the topic above to view more |
SSS releases El-Rufai after 15 hours Posted: 28 Jan 2014 07:45 AM PST After being questioned for close to fifteen hours at Department of State Services, (DSS) Malam Nasir el-Rufai, former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, who on Tuesday willing surrendered to... Click the topic above to view more |
Picture of the day Posted: 28 Jan 2014 07:45 AM PST Former FCT Minister Nasir El Rufai has been released on bail by the State Security Service 15 hours after he reported to the security agency to answer some questions relating to some inciting... Click the topic above to view more |
‘Please return John Paul blood container’, Catholic begs thieves Posted: 28 Jan 2014 07:39 AM PST The Catholic Church has appealed to thieves to return a container of the blood of the late Pope John Paul II that disappeared in what it called a vile and sacrilegious theft. The gold reliquary... Click the topic above to view more |
Court ordered Secondary school student to pay N50,000 for stealing N500 kola nuts Posted: 28 Jan 2014 07:35 AM PST A secondary school student, Kolawole Abiodun, 20, on Tuesday admitted before an Omu-Aran Upper Area Court in Kwara that he stole kola nuts worth N500. Abiodun, who lives at Isanlu area of ... Click the topic above to view more |
Housewife jailed for stealing shirt and laptop Posted: 28 Jan 2014 06:59 AM PST An Abuja Upper Area Court on Tuesday sentenced a housewife, Halima Mohammed, to six months in prison for stealing a laptop and a shirt. The presiding judge, Mr. Adamu Wakili, sentenced Mohammed... Click the topic above to view more |
El-Rufai urges Nigerian youths to join APC Posted: 28 Jan 2014 06:26 AM PST The embattled deputy national secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nasir El-Rufai, has made a call for everyone to join #1 opposition party of Nigeria. He took his accounts on social... Click the topic above to view more |
D'Banj dives into farming Posted: 28 Jan 2014 06:07 AM PST Nigeria's pop music star, D'Banj, has said that he is considering delving into full scale farming to help fight poverty and encourage many African youths to embrace agriculture as a means of... Click the topic above to view more |
Fire guts warehouse in Omu-Aran, destroys goods worth N50m Posted: 28 Jan 2014 03:59 AM PST Properties worth more than N50 million were on Monday destroyed in a fire incident that gutted a warehouse in Omu-Aran, Kwara, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. An eyewitness told NAN that the... Click the topic above to view more |
Emenike injured in Turkey Posted: 28 Jan 2014 03:21 AM PST Nigeria international striker, Emmanuel Emenike, suffered injury when in action for Fenerbahce against Konyaspor on Monday night, MTNFootball.com reports. Emenike suffered a partial tear on his... Click the topic above to view more |
American folk singer Pete Seeger dies at 94 Posted: 28 Jan 2014 03:48 AM PST United States folk singer and activist Pete Seeger, whose songs included Turn! Turn! Turn! and If I Had A Hammer, has died at the age of 94. He died at a New York hospital after a short illness,... Click the topic above to view more |
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