Category: Nigeria News

FORMER Governor of Bayelya State, Chief Timipre Sylva, Saturday, insisted that the 48 properties in Abuja, allegedly confiscated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, were not his, saying...

To a self-confessed assassin in Kano State, the lives of two lawmakers are not worth more than N40,000.That is the amount he and his colleagues were allegedly paid by their...

It is complicated. And it would be even more complicated. Certain events happen in the life of a nation and those events change the course of history for that nation. ...

When on Friday December 7, 2012, I read the headline ‘SENATE KICKS AGAINST EXTRA 9 billion naira for Vice-President’s residence’, in one of our national dailies, I felt very frustrated...

Unprecedented levels of violence and public insecurity or disorder have marred the Nigerian social space, so much indeed that Nigerians at every level now live with a siege mentality. A...

On Friday December 28, 2012, the Kogi State Governor, Captain Idris Wada was seriously injured in an auto crash. The accident reportedly occurred at Emi Woro village in Ajaokuta Local...

At the moment when security challenges appear to have gone a step beyond the police and is currently facing the armed forces shoulder-to-shoulder, the Nigerian Army is not resting on...

At the end of 2012, Sokoto State remained the poorest state in the country, with 81.2 per cent poverty rate, the records of the National Bureau of Statistics have shown....

The Peoples Democratic Party in the South-West has said it will not call for the adoption of any candidate for the party’s Board of Trustees chairmanship position. It had earlier...

There was pandemonium at Idi Oro,  Ona Ara Local Government Area of Oyo State, on Saturday when a 27-year-old man, Kasim Adeniran, committed suicide. The deceased, who was the ‘Oluwo...