ONDO State governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, has declared that he has the divine confidence that he is already marching to victory ahead of the October 20 gubernatorial election in the state. Dr Mimiko is the Labour Party standard- bearer in the election where he will be seeking a second term in office. Making an official [...]
POLICE, on Wednesday, foiled the attempt to bomb the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) secretariat in Sokoto with improvised explosive device (IED). Informed police sources told the Nigerian Tribune that at 11.00 a.m on Wednesday, the state police command got a report that an unknown person riding unregistered motorcycle dropped a black cellophane bag near the [...]
ABOUT 10 persons were feared dead,with property worth millions of naira destroyed in a renewed hostility between inhabitants of Ojantele and Ijegwu communities in Otukpo and Obi local government areas of Benue State. Nigerian Tribune learnt that fighting erup-ted between the border communities on Tuesday night, following a land dispute adjoining the warring neighbours. The [...]
retired deputy commissioner of police with the Air wing of the Nigeria Police, Pullen Agbonifor, was, on Tuesday, killed by gunmen suspected to be hired assassins in Lagos. Agbonifor was shot on Tuesday around 9.00 a.m. by a four–man gang, who invaded his Idimu Egbeda, Unity Estate home. The killers reportedly took advantage of the [...]
A two-storey building under construction collapsed in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, claiming three lives. About 10 persons were, however, rescued alive. Nigerian Tribune, which was at the scene of the incident, located on Ademola Awosika road, Kubwa Extension III, observed that a stop-work notice was served on the contractor handling the project on [...]
MORE than two months after the crash of the ill-fated Dana Air plane in Iju/Ishaga area of Lagos State on June 3, the state government will, today, commence the release of the remains of 107 victims of the crash at the Lagos State Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja. This was disclosed by the Senior Special Assistant [...]
FORMER Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, was on Wednesday quizzed at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport by State Security Service (SSS) personnel attached to the airport. El-Rufai was billed to travel to Dubai for an undisclosed reason in an Emirates Airline when he was picked up for questioning. According to information [...]
AN international human rights group, the Human Rights Watch, on Wednesday, called on the United States Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, to encourage President Goodluck Jonathan to address the increasingly deadly violence in Northern and Central parts of the country during her proposed visit to Nigeria. The group sent the message to Clinton in a [...]
ELDER statesman, Chief Edwin Clark, on Wednesday, threw a fresh challenge at General Ibrahim Babangida and other northern leaders on the Boko Haram insurgence, calling on him to lead the task aimed at ending the problem once and for all. Clark said he never minced words in throwing the ball of confronting the menace in [...]
Adepegba and Friday Olokor THE police claimed on Wednesday to have arrested three suspects in connection with the Monday and Tuesday gun attacks in Okene, Kogi State, in which a total of 24 persons, including two soldiers, were killed. The Kogi State Police Command said the suspects were arrested at a hide-out on Idare Hills [...]
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