A fatal motor accident involving a 14-seater bus in an advance party convoy of Kano State governor, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau has claimed the lives of two police officers attached to the convoy. In addition to the two dead policemen, seven other persons, mostly journalists, have sustained various degrees of injuries. Three of them are currently […]
Some aggrieved members of the Peoples Democratic Party in Kwara State on Thursday protested what they described as the allocation of votes in the state congresses conducted on Tuesday. The PDP supporters also alleged that in some places, like Kwara Central, elections never took place but results were written by certain individuals in their private […]
Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, was the scene of yet another bloodbath on Wednesday night as assailants believed to be members of a radical Islamic group killed eight people, including three policemen, in the city. An army spokesman, Lt. Abubakar Abdullahi, told the Agence France Presse by telephone that the members of the group […]
Thousands of activists led by the United Action for Democracy, UAD, Justice Now Foundation, JNF, Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders, CACOL, and Youth Solidarity, YS, yesterday marched through the major streets of Osogbo, the Osun State capital protesting the alleged plans by the Senate President David Mark and Senator Iyiola Omisore to instigate members of the […]
GOVERNOR Ali Modu Sheriff of Borno State, yesterday, presented a budget of N99, 806, 804, 000.00 for the 2011 fiscal year to the State House Assembly barely five months to the expiration of his second term in office. Tagged “Budget of Satisfaction” and considered a surplus budget, it has a slight difference of 12, representing […]
MEMBERS of an Islamic sect, Boko Haram, in utter contempt for the authorities defiantly continued their killing spree, yesterday, in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital killing seven persons. They attacked a police vehicle, the latest in a string of attacks by the group and wounded eight people. A military spokesman said the vehicle was “burnt […]
GOVERNOR Sule Lamido of Jigawa State has challenged the state department of literacy to come up with new policies and programmes that will make over 17,000 graduates of mass literacy classes across the state to further their education to post-literacy levels. The governor made the call while delivering his address at the International Literacy Day […]
Following the bomb blasts on Christmas eve which claimed many innocent lives in Jos, Plateau State, security has been beefed up with the deployment of additional 5,000 personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), within and around the Jos metropolis and many other volatile areas of the state to forestall possible recurrence. […]
Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi, has urged Nigerians to disregard the rumour in town concerning the health situation of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, insisting that Ojukwu was doing well in a London Hospital. He gave the assurance yesterday at the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) rally in the three Senatorial districts of the state, which took […]
The Oyo State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) congress elections ordered by the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) turned bloody yesterday, with the killing of the factional leader of the state chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Alhaji Lateef Salako (a.k.a Eleweomo). Salako, said to be one of the party delegates from […]
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