No fewer than 400,000 farmlands and 36,000 houses have been destroyed by floods in Jigawa, the Chairman of the state Flood Control Committee, Alhaji Abdulkadir Jinjiri, said. Meanwhile, over 750 persons have been rendered homeless in Kaduna, following a heavy rainfall in the state which swept away more than 300 homes. Jinjiri, who gave the […]
No fewer than nine persons were killed on Sunday in Zango area of Bauchi metropolis following an attack carried out in the area by gunmen. Seven others were injured in the midnight raid. An eyewitness said five people died on the spot and four died at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Teaching Hospital Bauchi while receiving […]
A group protesting its exclusion from the amnesty granted the ex-Niger Delta militants by the Federal Government has kicked against the proposed inclusion of less than 4,000 of its members in the proposed Third Phase Amnesty programme. Our correspondent learnt on Monday that members of the group met at Ohoro Secondary School, Delta State to […]
September 18, 2012 by Agency Reporter 47 Comments | credits: FORMER Kaduna State Governor Balarabe Musa said on Monday that the House of Representatives had yet to advance enough and convincing reasons for threatening to impeach President Goodluck Jonathan. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Musa made the remark in Lagos while reacting to […]
Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, urged the Federal Government to appeal against the ceding of Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon. Soyinka said this at the commemorative lecture of rights activist, Dr. Tunji Braithwaite, at 79 in Lagos on Monday. He said Bakassi remained a testing ground for Nigeria’s corporate integrity, stressing that the government should know […]
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan on Monday sounded a note of warning to national honours awardees, threatening that the Federal Government would withdraw the honours from conferees that lacked credibility. Already, the President said he had mandated the National Honours Committee led by a former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Alfa Belgore, to compile the list […]
A United States of America-based Nigerian lecturer, Prof. Ilesanmi Adesida, has become the first black man to be appointed the Provost/Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, United States of America. Born in 1949 at Ifon, a town in Ondo State, Adesida, a professor of Electronic Engineering with outstanding works […]
-Punch The police have arrested a man, Usman Inuwa, with the corpse of a three-year -old child in a suitcase. The suspect resident in Bwari, a satellite town in Abuja, was said to have been arrested by security personnel after a tip-off at Maitama area of the city. He was said to have been accosted […]
Soldiers manning a checkpoint in Kano shot to death two suspected Boko Haram leaders, AP reports. The dead reportedly included the spokesman for the sect, as well as a commander who operates in Kogi State, a military official said. It is unclear what happened next, though the official said soldiers shot dead both the commander […]
Three other judges probed over fat bank accounts FIVE judges, two of them State Chief Judges, may have fallen foul of the law against corruption. They are now under investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for allegedly keeping fat accounts. The anti-graft commission has already obtained the statements of accounts of […]
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