Prominent lawyers yesterday expressed divergent views over the Supreme Court judgment of December 16, 2011 in which it declined jurisdiction to entertain an appeal on 10 National Assembly seats by Senator Yakubu Lado faction of the Katsina ...
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the 19 Northern States and Abuja chapter yesterday said the bombings and killing of Christians on Christmas Day in Madalla, Niger State and Jos, capital of Plateau State, were an invitation to religious war...
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), have faulted the comment made by President Goodluck Jonathan alluding that Nigerians must live with the burden of bombings until it sto...
Anumber of explosions rocked parts of Damaturu and Potiskum in Yobe State, as the combined team of the Nigerian army and the police battled Boko Haram members in sustained overnight fire fight. As the dust began to clear, it became obvious that the sec...
In spite of opposition from members of the National Assembly on the proposed removal of subsidies on petroleum products, President Goodluck Jonathan declared yesterday that the lawmakers would endorse subsidy removal. President Jonathan sta...
Wonders will never end, that is what many people keep saying. On Friday, Ifeoma Gabriel, sharpened her knife, looked closely at her six-month old child and beheaded him without any remorse. She was promptly arrested by the police and she is now telling...
The federal government has stated that it has not fixed any date for the removal of fuel subsidy and full deregulation of the downstream sector of the oil industry. Minister of information Mr. Labran Maku stated this yesterday in Abuja while briefing S...
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. O.A. Ihejirika has described the dreaded Boko Haram sect as a religious movement that has no value for human life and thus vowed that the military is ready to contain them. The COAS made this assertion yesterday...
The Federal Inland Revenue Service yesterday arrested the Executive Secretary (ES) of the Federal Capital Development Authority, Engr Adamu Ismaila over N28.2billion unremitted taxes. Adamu was picked up in his office at about 12:03pm by an enforcement...
Nigeria does not need the direct intervention of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) since the country is already well-endowed to tackle economic challenges confronting it. To buttress this, out of the 23 projects currently being financed by the IMF ...
With the death of 2-year-old Lois Obajemu at 5.pm yesterday following the bomb blast which rocked Kaduna on Monday; the killing of five people by unknown gunmen who raided Ramin Daji village also in Kaduna and the bloody robbery attacks which has provo...
Worried by the increasing level of criticism that has trailed the planned removal of subsidy from petroleum products, the national caucus of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday engaged President Goodluck Jonathan, on the need to reconsider his...
Thirty-two out of the 40 members of the Kano State House of Assembly yesterday closed ranks and passed a vote of no confidence on the House Speaker, Alhaji Yusuf Abdullahi Falgore, which was brought before the House by Hon. Lawan Safiyanu Gogori (Bagwa...
The Senate yesterday finally approved the recommendations of its adhoc committee that probed the commercialisation and privatisation activities of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE). The report had recommended the immediate removal of the Director-...
Following the Supreme Court judgment of last Friday, in which the apex court declined jurisdiction to entertain the appeal filed by members of Senator Yakubu Garba Lado faction of the Katsina State chapter of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) a...