At least about 16 people were killed yesterday in a clash between the Joint Task Force (JTF) and some suspected terrorists in Lawan Bukar street, Abbaganaram, Budum and Shehuri wards of Maiduguri metropolis, while several others sustained various degre...
The Senate yesterday confirmed the nomination of Engr Ezekiel Adeniji as chairman of the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA) and five others as members. The five members include Ahmed Gusau, Air Commodore Indongesit Nkanga (Rtd), Barr Ubah Maigari...
Nigeria House of Representatives yesterday raised alarm over the piling judgement debt profile of the federal government totaling N80 billion. The house detailed its committee on justice to ascertain whether or not ongoing and pending debts are properl...
Prominent Nigerians have called on the federal government to re-affirm its commitment to the fight against all forms of economic and financial crimes including trans-border crimes particularly in the Economic Community of West-African States (ECOWAS) r...
Three ministers disclosed yesterday that they too would have been involved in the ill-fated Dana plane that crashed in Lagos on Sunday. They are Minister of State for Defence, Erelu Olusola Obada; Minister of Transport, Senator Idris Umar and Tourism, ...
Lagos State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Ade Ipaye, yesterday announced that a total number of 149 bodies had been evacuated from the Dana air plane crash of Sunday with 52 identifiable bodies and 97 unidentifiable ones. Ipaye who...
There are strong indications that the Presidency has signified interest to fully implement the report of the Senate Ad hoc Committee that probed the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE). UCHENNA AWOM writes that the sudden interest may not be enough poli...
As the site of last Sunday plane crash in Iju-Ishaga area of Lagos State was fumigated yesterday, some residents of the area have appealed to the authorities to bury the victims far from the area. Their apprehension was based on their belief in the exi...
Kaduna State Governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa yesterday appealed to members of Akwat Akwop to embrace dialogue and reconsider their stand on a Fulani herdsmen. Akwat Akwop, a self acclaimed Christian Militia group had issued a seven day ultimatum to res...
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has condemned the bomb explosion at a church in Bauchi which resulted in the loss of many lives with several others injured. The Forum made its position known in a communiqué signed by the National Publicity Secretar...
Stakeholders at a workshop in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, have attributed growing insecurity in the country to youth unemployment. The stakeholders therefore urged governments at all levels to step up their job creation drives to stem the level of...
Speaker of Nasarawa State Assembly, Hon. Musa Mohammed, has said that the lawmakers house passed 21 bills in the past legislative year Ahmed, who disclosed this yesterday at the valedictory session to mark the end of legislative year, also said 12 bill...
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has directed joint committees on aviation of the National Assembly to ascertain the air worthiness of all other operating aircraft in the country and make appropriate recommendations. ...
As controversy continues to trail the renaming of University of Lagos to Moshood Abiola University by President Goodluck Jonathan last week, former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, yesterday in Benin said that Jonathan should have co...
No fewer than 16 members of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), were yesterday feared dead, when a combined team of the Army, Police and SSS raided MASSOB offices in the commercial city of Onitsha. 83 members of th...