Category: Nigeria News

The Federal Government on Friday told our News Correspondent SUNDAY PUNCH that it would  not extradite a former governor of Bayelsa State, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, to the United Kingdom to face money laundering...

There are indications that the wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, has been flown abroad for medical treatment in an undisclosed German hospital. Unconfirmed reports had it that the First...

Second Republic Minister of Steel and spokesman of the Northern Elders’ Forum, Dr. Paul Unongo, in this interview withALLWELL OKPI, speaks on the state of the nation, 2015 elections and...

THE new Assistant Inspector General of Police [AIG], Zone 9, Umuahia, Abia State, Mr. Tambari Yabo Muhammad, has called on the governors in the zone to set up security trust...

The frequency of ethnic violence in Nigeria, especially northern Nigeria, which has now become the hotbed of bloody strife, is embarrassing. More embarrassing is the easy way life can be...

The Igbo in Kano say they have lost confidence in the way Kano State government is handling last Monday’s bombing of luxury buses at New Road Luxury Park, in which...

The Igbo are ubiquitous; they are everywhere. In the remotest villages, the farthest part of the earth, North Pole, Down Under, all over the world, into anything, commerce, transport, drugs,...

Attacks on villages surrounding a central Nigerian city at the heart of unrest between Christians and Muslims have killed more than 50 people this week, officials said Saturday, as authorities...

The new Imo State Deputy Governor, Prince Eze Madumere, was sworn-in by the State Chief Judge, Hon. Justice Benjamin Ahanonu Njemanze Saturday. The ceremony, which took place in the Sam...

A 14- year-old house maid, Otobong Edet  John, had her buttocks seared with  hot electric iron  by her mistress, simply identified as  Ekaette, on the suspicion that she  was promiscuous....