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Boko Haram, Borno, Headlines, State News
Wednesday, July 1st, 2015
Vice President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo Two suicide bombers (a male and female) on Wednesday detonated a bomb at a hospital in Molai Village, Borno State, few kilometres from scenes visited by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo who was in the town to pay a visit to Internally Displaced Persons. A member of the youth vigilante group, […]
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Headlines, Osun, State News
Monday, June 29th, 2015
The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has called on Justice Olamide Oloyede to toe the honourable path by first, resigning her position as a High Court Judge in the state’s judiciary before, “ganging up with the opposition to attempt to destroy the state government” of which she is an integral […]
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Governors, Headlines, Kaduna, Kebbi, Niger, State News, Zamfara
Sunday, June 28th, 2015
FROM NOAH EBIJE, KADUNA Governors of the states bordering the dreaded Ka¬muku Forest of Kaduna, where series of criminal activities have been on¬going for years met yes¬terday with Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai to find solution to rising fears of being a future nest for Boko Ha¬ram insurgents. According to El-Rufai, “the forest which […]
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Akwa Ibom, Headlines, State News
Sunday, June 28th, 2015
By Our Reporter on June 28, 2015 National The Akwa Ibom State Governor¬ship Election Tri¬bunal holden at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory Complex, Maitama, Abu¬ja has struck out a peti¬tion by the candidate of the Labour Party, Sena¬tor Helen Esuene seek¬ing to nullify the election of the Governor of Akwa […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Osun, Raheem Oluwafunminiyi
Saturday, June 27th, 2015

By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi | Ibadan, Nigeria | June 27, 2015 – These are really disturbing times in Nigeria. Almost everywhere one goes, the stories are the same. Epileptic power supply, biting fuel scarcity, tanker explosions, intense Boko Haram bombings and attacks, petty agitations in the Niger-Delta, spiralling debts, economic downturn, naira depreciation to mention a […]
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Headlines, Imo, State News
Saturday, June 27th, 2015
PRESS STATEMENT BY IKEDI OHAKIM MY LIFE IS IN DANGER Following some recent developments around my person and the avalanche of misinformation and deliberate lies being peddled about me, I am constrained to issue this statement, first to douse anxiety of every well-meaning fellow who has shown concern and second, to alert members of the […]
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Akwa Ibom, Headlines, State News
Saturday, June 27th, 2015
MESSAGE OF FELICITATION TO THE AKWA IBOM STATE GOVERNOR, H.E MR. UDOM EMMANUEL- FROM ITAUMA FOUNDATION. Itauma Foundations (IFOUND) is pleased to extend her heart-glowing and exceptional felicitations to His Excellency, Mr. Udom Gabriel Emmanuel on his recent swearing-in as the Executive Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria in a colorful event which took place on May 29th […]
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Headlines, Kano, State News
Friday, June 26th, 2015
An Islamic court has sentenced nine people to death for insulting the Prophet Muhammad in the northern Nigerian city of Kano. The accused, who were all Muslims, had pleaded guilty, the head of Kano’s religious police, Aminu Ibrahim Daurawa, told the BBC. The trial was speedily done in secret after a section of the court […]
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Headlines, Ogun, State News
Thursday, June 25th, 2015
By Evelyn Usman A suspected leader of a robbery gang that has been terrorising Ogun state and its environs has been arrested by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Ogun State Police Command, Imagbon, Abeokuta. The suspect, Ibrahim Olasunkanmi, popularly known as Jaga, reportedly escaped from Akure Prisons where he was awaiting trial […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Thursday, June 25th, 2015
By Jimitota Onoyume & Gbenga Oke The National Industrial Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, has restrained Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, the state House of Assembly and their agents from dissolving or, in any manner whatsoever, interfering with the tenure of office of the 23 local government council chairmen in Rivers State.WIKE Meanwhile, […]