NIGERIA: 60 homes, 5 churches destroyed by flood in Rivers
PORT HARCOURT – OVER 1000 persons have been rendered homeless as flood sacked about 60 homes and five churches in Ahoada West Local Government Area of Rivers State. The flood...
LUTH consultant’s death: Police arrest widower
LAGOS—Dr Femi Thomas, widower of late Consultant Paediatrician at Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Dr. Hestianna Thomas, was yesterday transferred to the State Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department, SCIID, Yaba,...
Ex-President writes own letter to Obasanjo
According to Sahara Reporters, former President Goodluck Jonathan has written a personal letter to former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Jonathan is said to have written Obasanjo to seek the latter’s blessing...
Please Don’t cry for Bola Tinubu
MANY monuments have been built in honour of the man Bola Tinubu. He is acclaimed as the political genius of our times who not only engineered the taming of the...
‘Presidential aide is an embarrassment,’ PDP says
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina as an embarrassment to the Presidency. The PDP made the comment after...
Screening: Anxiety grips senators, Amaechi and other nominees
ABUJA—AS the Senate resumes its screening of ministerial nominees today, anxiety has gripped the senators and nominees. While nominees are bothered over the outcome of the exercise, the senators were...
NIGERIA: Ex-gov denies fighting Saraki over delayed ministerial confirmation
Ministerial nominee and ex-governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, has dismissed reports that he and the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, have a score to settle. In a statement released on...
NIGERIA: Radio Biafra Director granted bail
he Director of the controversial Radio Biafra and Leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has been granted bail. Kanu, who is yet to meet his bail conditions,...
Weather hindering war against Boko Haram, says military
The Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Gabriel Olonisakin, has said that the military was currently facing difficulties with the weather condition in the North East to effectively prosecute the...
Amaechi: We won’t allow PDP to embarrass Buhari, our party, say APC senators
Ahead of the resumption today of screening of ministerial nominees by the Senate, some of the would-be ministers yesterday met behind closed doors with House of Representatives Speaker, Hon. Yakubu...