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Business activities have resumed in Jos, the Plateau capital after Christmas celebration, a survey by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday has revealed.NAN correspondents who visited the Terminus, Bukuru and Rukuba road markets, report that some ...
The Speaker of the Bayelsa State Assembly, Hon. Nestor Binabo, yesterday warned the Federal Government and the Nigerian people of the plot by the Boko Haram to provoke a confrontation between Muslims and Christians in the country with the rising cases ...
A lawmaker in the House of Representatives, Hon Abiodun Abudu, has told the federal government to shelve its bid to remove fuel subsidy to a later date when all the refineries will have been put in place so as not to further impoverished the masses. Ab...
The National Council Of Muslim Youth Organisations in Nigeria (NACOMYO) has condemned the Christmas Day bombings and the general insecurity in Nigeria. This is just as the Da’awah Coordination Council of Nigeria(DCCN) has also frowned at the rece...
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has accused the federal government of wasting valuable time and resources on the meaningless fuel subsidy debate while neglecting the Boko Haram crisis that has continued to consume innocent citizens. In a statement...
Former Oyo State governor, Otunba Chistopher Alao-Akala has declared that he would not maliciously criticize his successor in office, as there is a better forum to speak to him. Alao-Akala, who spoke with reporters in his Ogbomo...
A former member of the National Assembly, Usman Tsauri has faulted the federal government on the recent threat to national security, insisting that federal government has failed the nation. Senator Tsauri, who represented Katsina central at the upper c...
Fishermen and indigenes of the Odioma Community in Nembe-speaking Ijaw Community of Brass local government area of Bayelsa State on Tuesday raised an alarm over the gradual spread of crude oil spill suspected to be from Shell’s Bonga Field into t...
As security remains tight in Suleja, Niger State following the Christmas Day bomb blast, facts are emerging as to why the Boko Haram sect always chooses Suleja as its target even when the state capital, Minna, and other major cities in the state remain...
President of the Amalgamated Traders Association of Nigeria, Alhaji Bature Abdul-Aziz, has urged the federal government to come up with a deliberate policy that would give indigenous businessmen adequate protection in view of the prevailing domin...
One of the parishioners at St. Theresa’s Catholic Church in Madalla, near Suleja, Niger State, Mr. Patrick Okpalla, has described the Christmas Day bombing in the church as unprecedented, saying he only escaped death through divine intervention. ...
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...
The Gada Biu area of Jos north local government of Plateau State is under tension following the arrest of one person suspected to be attempting to plant a bomb at the Gada Biu over head bridge. Gada Biu was the scene of the multiple bomb blasts t...