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General Politics, Governors, Headlines, Sokoto, State News
Thursday, March 3rd, 2016
By Emma Nnadozie, Jimoh Babatunde & Peter Duru Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State has directed the state’s Human Rights Commission to wade into the alleged abduction of a 14-year-old Miss Patience Paul, on August 12, 2015. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, This came as Pan-Idoma group, Opiatoha K ‘Idoma, yesterday, pleaded with the […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Thursday, March 3rd, 2016
By Evelyn Usman, Olasunkanmi Akoni, Ebun Sessou, Bose Adelaja & Josephine Agbonkhese LAGOS—Tension is still mounting at Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary, Ikorodu, Lagos, following the delay in the release of the three Senior Secondary School girls abducted by gunmen Tuesday night. School-2This is just as one of the girls was said to have fallen ill […]
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EFCC Politics, Headlines
Thursday, March 3rd, 2016
By Bartholomew Madukwe An operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Isa Mohammed, yesterday told a Lagos High Court in Ikeja, how a 20-year-old man, Osaze Akhigbe, obtained $64,000 from an American, Jolanta Kasza, by claiming to be an Irish who wanted to marry her in Nigeria. Akhigbe, who was arraigned alongside Ndekwu […]
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Thursday, March 3rd, 2016
FIFA plaque excites Enyeama Vincent Enyeama TOP HEADLINES Idris Adesina Former Nigeria goalkeeper, Vincent Enyeama, on Tuesday expressed his excitement over his FIFA 16 Ultimate Team of the Week plaque. The Lille goalkeeper was picked as the goalkeeper for the Week 24 Team by the football body. Enyeama […]
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Benue, Headlines, Sokoto, State News, Sultan of Sokoto
Thursday, March 3rd, 2016
Another 14-year-old Benue girl kidnapped in Sokoto, allegedly housed by Sultan Kidnapped Patience Adaji advertisement undefined TOP HEADLINES BY PETER DURU MAKURDI – Despite the angry reactions that trailed the alleged kidnap of 14 year old Esse Oruru from Bayelsa state to Kano, relations of another missing 14 year old girl, […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Tuesday, March 1st, 2016
Nigeria has donated 15 cars and 100 motorcycles to the electoral commission of neighbouring Benin. The Nigerian Ambassador to Benin Republic, Lawrence Obisakin, during the donation, lauded President Muhammadu Buhari’s efforts at asserting Nigeria’s leadership in Africa. Mr. Obisakin said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Cotonou on the sidelines […]
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Bayelsa, General Politics, Headlines, Kano, Nigerian Police, State News, Top Stories
Tuesday, March 1st, 2016
Kinapped child bride Ese Oruru freed, to undergo medical tests 14-year-old Ese Oruru has been rescued from Kano State where she had been taken to by her paedophile captor, Yinusa, aka Yellow. Ese, who was abducted on August 12, 2015, converted to Islam and forcefully married by Yinusa, was on Monday released to the police […]
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Headlines
Tuesday, March 1st, 2016
PIC. 18. PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI (R), WELCOMING THE GENERAL OVERSEER OF THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD, PASTOR ENOCH ADEBOYE, TO THE PRESIDENTIAL VILLA IN ABUJA ON TUESDAY (16/2/16). 0936/16/2/2016/ICE/BJO/NAN President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Enoch Adejare Adeboye, as he turns 74 years on March […]
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Headlines
Tuesday, March 1st, 2016
Photo: Expressng Related News Afenifere chieftain and former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Olu Falae, narrowly escaped bullets from policemen on Tuesday while traveling to Ile Ife, in Osun State to pay homage to the Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Ogunwusi. The national leader of the Social Democratic Party, who narrated his ordeal to […]
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Headlines, Kano, State News
Tuesday, March 1st, 2016
The Kano State Government has dissociated itself from the abduction, forced marriage and conversion to Islam of a teenager, Ese Oruru, since Aug. 2015. Miss Oruru was taken from her native Bayelsa to Kano by Yunusa Yellow, a man who lived in Bayelsa and was her food vendor mother’s regular customer. A statement signed by […]
