Pope condemns Nigeria mosque attacks as ‘sin against God
Blood-stained carpets are seen in the central mosque in northern Nigeria’s largest city of Kano on November 29, 2014, a day after twin suicide blasts hit the mosque during weekly Friday prayers. At...
View ArticleGov Ahmed scales through APC Guber screening
Kwara State Governor, Dr. Abdulfatah Ahmed on Sunday scaled the screening of his party, the All Progressive Congress (APC) . Governor Ahmed who was screened by the Olagunsoye Oyinlola led screening...
View ArticleGov Orji Approves 20% Across Board Reduction in School Fees of Students of...
The education friendly Governor of Abia State, Chief Theodore Orji, has approved 20 per cent across board reduction in the school fees of students of Abia State University, Uturu. In a statement signed...
View ArticleNo agreement on zoning of guber in Rivers –Wike
A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant, Nyesom Wike, has said he did not participate in any meeting where zoning of the governorship in Rivers State was agreed. Wike, who spoke in...
View ArticleEnugu 2015: Why pendulum’ll swing to Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi
In Enugu State, as indeed in other parts of Igboland, there is a saying that the chick that will grow into a cockerel starts early in life to manifest the peculiar characteristics of the male fowl....
View ArticleGunmen attack police station, burn emir’s palace, others in Borno
A fresh wave of violence that swept through Borno State has claimed scores of lives and resulted in the destruction of public buildings and a divisional police station. The tragedy occurred as gunmen...
View Article4 suspected cultists in Police net for allegedly raping girl during initiation
The Ondo State Police Command has arrested four suspected cultists for gang-raping a girl in Ondo town, after which they stole her handset. According to the police, the victim (identity withheld) was...
View ArticleIbori’s daughter, others win PDP House of Assembly primaries in Delta
Ms Erhiatake Ibori, daughter of former Governor James Ibori, Mr Godwin Abigor, Speaker Peter Onwasanya, Mr. Pius Labo, Elegbete Moses Odibo and Mr Reuben Azeze, were among the winners at People’s...
View ArticleJonathan’s attempt to woo Yoruba, an ‘afterthought, futile effort’– Afenifere
Pan-Yoruba association, Afenifere Renewal Group, has said the recent attempt by President Goodluck Jonathan to woo the Yoruba nation to support his re-election is an afterthought and a futile effort....
View ArticlePope urges Muslim leaders to condemn violence
Pope Francis has urged Muslim leaders to “clearly” condemn violent attacks carried out in the name of Islam after returning from a historic three-day visit to Turkey. The Catholic pope made the remarks...
View ArticleAgain, Court orders release of detained APC data officers
A Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos, has for a seconf time ordered the immediate release of the five officials of the All Progressives Congress detained by the Department of State Security. The five...
View ArticleSurveyors applauds Enugu govt for stopping counter-signature
By Chibota Edozie The Nigerian Institution of Surveyors has praised the Enugu State Government for reversing its decision to implement counter-signature, a practice whereby the surveyor-general of...
View ArticleJudge summons NBC, Coca-Cola bosses to appear in court
Justice Evoh Chukwu of a Federal High Court in Abuja has asked Coca-Cola Nigeria Limited, Nigerian Bottling Company, along with their respective Managing Directors, Mr. Adeola Adetunji, and Ben...
View ArticlePlane crash: Gov Ahmed calls for safer airspace
Kwara State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed has sympathized with the passengers of the Overland airline that was involved in a minor accident on the runway of the Ilorin International Airport at the...
View ArticleEbonyi PDP crisis worsens• We’ve left party for Anyim, First Lady -Leaders•...
By the end of yesterday, the actual division in the People Democratic Party (PDP) in Ebonyi State had come clear and beyond doubt. In an exclusive chat with the Daily Sun yesterday, a serving senator...
View ArticlePandemonium, as workers issue 21-day ultimatum to Chevron
There was pandemonium, weekend, at the Chevron Escravos Terminal in Delta State, as the Escravos branch of the Seamen and Water Transport Workers Union, one of the wings of the Maritime Workers Union...
View ArticleCourt orders release of detained APC data officers
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the release of the detained five officials of the All Progressives Congress. The five-Chinedu Atuche, Fayemi Olaposi, Augustine Onuchukwu, Ebun Ilori...
View ArticleOver 600,000 HIV/AIDS patients living in Kaduna
Two civil society organisations- the Civil Society on HIV&AIDS in Nigeria and the Network of People Living with HIV&AIDS in Nigeria on Monday revealed that over 600, 000 people are living with...
View ArticleNaira slides to N184 against dollar
Barely one week after the Central Bank of Nigeria devalued the naira by 8.4 per cent in a bid to reduce the pressure on the falling national currency, the naira on Monday again fell by 3.4 per cent to...
View ArticleCourt refuses PDP’s application to remove Tambuwal as Speaker
An attempt by the Peoples Democratic Party to surreptitiously remove the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, through an ex parte application has failed as the trial judge, Justice...
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