5 killed as two blasts rock Gombe
Two blasts rocked north Nigeria’s Gombe city on Sunday, killing five people, with one of the attacks targeting a military checkpoint, witnesses and a military source said. The first blast...
Ex-president Ahmadinejad launches website ahead of Iran polls
Iran’s hardline former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday launched his official website, in a possible return to the political scene a year before legislative elections. The site Ahmadinejad.ir, showing Ahmadinejad...
Delta State and its home-grown billionaires
Nigerians from every nook and cranny have found Lagos an irresistible land of dreams. It is the nation’s number one destination for commerce, manufacturing, finance, and the media, and even...
PDP’s bloodletting and acts of terror in rivers state – the road to perfidy
PDP’s bloodletting and acts of terror in rivers state – the road to perfidy - Being text of a press conference by the Rivers state Chapter of the All Progressive...
APC alerts over use of their sponsored protests to force polls shift
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has strongly condemned the reported plan by the advocates of the postponement of next month’s general elections to sponsor protests across the country against INEC...
African Union calls for 7,500-strong force to fight Boko Haram
The African Union called Friday for a regional five-nation force of 7,500 troops to defeat the “horrendous” rise of Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamist militants, AU Commission Chief Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said....
Boko Haram planning to use livestock as bombers – Be on Alert
ABUJA— The Federal Government, yesterday, revealed the purported plans by Boko Haram to use male suicide bombers disguised as cobblers (shoe repairers) as well as livestock, like goats, cows, donkeys...
APC Criticizes President For Mentioning Buhari’s Late Daughter In AIT Documentary
APC has criticized President Goodluck Jonathan for using late Buhari’s daughter, Zulaiha Buhari who was suffering from a sickle cell disease and died at 40 while trying to give birth...
Feb polls: Falana, others task journalists on objectivity
LAGOS — LAGOS lawyer and human rights activist, Femi Falana, SAN, has urged media practitioners in the country to adhere strictly to the rules of engagement on accuracy, objective and...
Nigeria Court restrains 5 telecoms firms
LAGOS — A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, restrained five telecoms firms from suspending All Progressives Congress, APC, campaign fund-raising platform. Trial judge, Justice Ibrahim Buba made the...