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Abdulrazaq O. hazmat, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Thursday, April 30th, 2015

By Abdulrazaq O. Hamzat | NNP | April 30, 2015 – A friend narrated what he saw in a one of the videos of xenophobic attacks currently going on in South Africa. Here him, ‘’I saw a crowd charging at a white vehicle. In the crowd were youths,men and women and some with babies on […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Thursday, April 30th, 2015
By Madu Onuorah, Abuja Bureau Chief on April 29, 2015 68429 • Identities yet to be confirmed NIGERIAN troops fighting Boko Haram insurgents in the Northeast have rescued no fewer than 200 girls and 93 women from Sambisa forest in Borno State. Defence Headquarters, in a tweet yesterday, described the operation as ‘daring and precise,’ […]
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Headlines
Thursday, April 30th, 2015
By Odita Sunday on April 29, 2015 The suspects, Kelvin and Ogbonna A 27 YEAR-OLD man yesterday confessed selling his sister’s daughter to commercial sex workers operating in Libya for a paltry sum of N10, 000. The suspect, Kelvin Okorie, was among five members of the syndicate arrested by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad […]
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Headlines
Thursday, April 30th, 2015
A middle-aged-man, Collins Nduka, on Thursday pleaded with an Ojo Customary Court in Lagos State to order his wife, Sefinat Nduka, to refund N1.4 million he spent in marrying her. Collins told the court that his wife, whom he married three years ago, had decided to abandon her matrimonial home for more than a year. […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics
Thursday, April 30th, 2015
The Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on the Diaspora, Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, on Wednesday, said four Nigerians executed in Indonesia for drug-related offences might have been denied their right to Nigerian lawyers. Martin Anderson, (50); Silvester Nwolise, (47); Okwudili Oyatanze, (41), and Jamiu Abashin, (50), along with four others, were shot dead by […]
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Latest Politics
Thursday, April 30th, 2015
[print] Sacked Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority, Abdullahi Habib Sacked Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority, Abdullahi Habib President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday sacked Mallam Habib Abdullahi as the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority. He has also named Alhaji Sanusi Bayero as his replacement. In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and […]
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Thursday, April 30th, 2015

Aspiring Nigerian footballers and indeed basketballers may soon find the Russian League a very tough one to join as the Russians move to restrict the inflow of foreigners and indeed force out those already there. The aim, they have explained is to strengthen their national team and their football system ahead of the 2018 World […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Thursday, April 30th, 2015
(CNN)German authorities think they “have thwarted an Islamist attack,” and a married couple have been arrested in a town near Frankfurt in connection with the case, the interior minister for the German state of Hesse told reporters Thursday. The official didn’t provide details about the alleged plot, but German media are reporting that a man […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Thursday, April 30th, 2015
Fourteen French soldiers are implicated in a probe into the alleged rape of children in the Central African Republic, a judicial source said Thursday, in what could be a potentially devastating scandal for the army. The source, who wished to remain anonymous, said that “very few” of these soldiers had actually been identified in an […]
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Latest Politics, National Politics, Top Stories
Thursday, April 30th, 2015

The Federal Government has warned the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, against utterances and actions capable of portraying him as running a parallel government at a time President Goodluck Jonathan is still fully in charge. The Minister of National Planning, Abubakar Sulaiman, disclosed this at the end of the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja on […]