Integrity, capacity Awolowo had during his time missing now –Ajayi,...
Former Registrar, West African Examination Council, Chief Alex Ajayi, tells ABIODUN NEJO about his childhood, career and view about governance in Nigeria Unlike some of your peers, you are still agile...
View ArticleResume nightlife in Owerri, Imo CP tells residents
Imo State Commissioner of Police, Abutu Yaro, has asked the residents of Owerri, the state capital, to resume nightlife. Yaro said the security situation of the state had improved to the point that...
View ArticleGastroenteritis outbreak kills 37 in 15 Bauchi LGAs
The Bauchi State Primary Health Care Development Authority, on Saturday, says an outbreak of gastroenteritis infection has killed no fewer than 37 people in 15 local government areas of the state....
View ArticleThough Boko Haram killed, beheaded our lecturers, students, we won’t shut...
The Vice-Chancellor, University of Maiduguri, Borno State, Prof. Aliyu Shugaba, speaks to DOGARA BITRUS about the impact of the over decade-long Boko Haram insurgency on the academic activities in the...
View ArticlePeople afraid to go to farm, we’ll fight insecurity –Fayemi
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has lamented that farmers in the state are now afraid to go to their farms due to insecurity but assured that his government will ensure providing security to...
View ArticleBuhari exploited June 12 following Obasanjo, Jonathan’s failure to recognise...
Renowned labour unionist and elder statesman, Chief Frank Kokori, recalls the sacrifices made to end dictatorship in Nigeria and assesses the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari...
View ArticleVaccination: Nigeria, 46 others may miss WHO September target over shortage
The World Health Organisation has said 47 African countries are set to miss the September target of vaccinating 10 per cent of their people unless the continent receives 225 million more doses. The...
View ArticleFatherhood more important to me than music — Wizkid
International singer, Ayo Balogun, popularly known as Wizkid, has said that fatherhood means more to him than anything else. In a video shared on his YouTube channel, the singer who is celebrating the...
View ArticleMy engagement to Iyke, dream come true –Theresa Ugorji
An optometrist and a former contestant on the reality show, Ultimate Love, Theresa Ugorji, has said being engaged to a co-contestant on the show was a dream come true for her. The 25-year-old actress...
View ArticleAbandoned by children, rejected by in-laws, widowed ex-banker rots in penury
•No, she abandoned us –Son Home for Mrs Esther Kanebi is worse than a pigsty. The squalid structure built with weakened bamboo sticks and thinly draped with thorn polyethene sheets and mosquito net can...
View ArticleI once worked as bricklayer to buy filmmaking equipment —Itele d Icon
Actor, Ibrahim Yekini, popularly known as Itele d Icon, tells MOBOLA SADIQ about his days as a boxer, how he struggled to make a name in the movie industry and other issues What piqued your interest in...
View ArticleBuhari: A dictator’s long journey to ‘reformed democrat’
As Nigeria celebrates Democracy Day, JESUSEGUN ALAGBE writes that despite past assurances by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), that he had become a reformed democrat, his actions...
View ArticleBakare advocates new constitution, wants marginalisation of Igbo, others...
The Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has stated that the 1999 Constitution is fraudulent and inconsistent, adding that it should be replaced by a new...
View ArticleAnti-party: Lalong confirms Plateau APC chair’s suspension
PLATEAU State Governor, Simon Lalong, has confirmed the sack of the state Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Letep Dabang. Lalong confirmed what was until then a rumour during a lecture...
View ArticleRivers CP orders arrest of vigilante, others over slain trader
SHOP owners and technicians doing business at the popular GSM village at the Garrison axis of Ogbunabali in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, have been forced to shut down, following the killing of an...
View ArticleFleeing Osun ritual killing prime suspect held in Oyo
One Akin, believed to be the prime suspect in the killing of a yet-to-be identified lady in Apomu last Thursday, has been arrested by the operatives of Osun State Police Command. The state Commissioner...
View ArticleConstruction firm guard falls from bridge, dies in Kwara river
A security guard, Mallam Babangida, on Sunday lost his life after he fell from a bridge into a river in the Kaiama Local Government Area of Kwara State. The man was said to be working with one of the...
View ArticleRivers traders risk prosecution over refuse disposal
THE Rivers State Waste Management Agency has read the riot act to traders, saying any of them caught dumping refuse on the median will be arrested and prosecuted. The agency’s Sole Administrator, Felix...
View ArticleNYSC contributed more to nation-building, says Gowon
DESPITE resistance during its foundation, the National Youth Service Corps has remained one of the blessings that has happened to Nigeria, a former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (retd.), has...
View ArticleNHRC want June 12 electoral officials honoured
EXECUTIVE Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission, Tony Ojukwu, has called for the recognition of the political actors especially election management officials who played active roles in the...
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