Herdsmen attack: FG removes Enugu police commissioner
Commissioner of Police, Enugu State Command, Mr. Nwodibo Ekechukwu, has been redeployed to another state following the attack on Ukpabi Nimbo in Enugu State by suspected Fulani herdsmen. No reason was...
View ArticleListen up guys, Lagos is now an oil producing state
Twenty years after it was discovered, the Aje field located in Oil Mining Lease 113 has spewed forth its first oil, putting Lagos on the list of oil-producing states in the country, reports Punch. The...
View ArticleHonest Offor: 5 ways to solve Nigeria’s herdsmen crisis
Tackling herdsmen and farmers crisis A cattle herder herds his cattle from Kano to my village in Isuikwuato. The cattle destroy my crops and defecate in the river where I take my drinking water. I do...
View ArticleBuratai: ‘We now have Boko Haram cornered inside Sambisa’
The Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, on Wednesday said ground troops had blocked movement of Boko Haram terrorists in and out of Sambisa forest. Buratai stated this while fielding questions from...
View ArticleFormer Imo governor Achike Udenwa arrested by the EFCC
A former governor of Imo State, Achike Udenwa, was last night picked up by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Our sources at the anti-graft agency say Udenwa was...
View ArticleAnenih says God will punish all those who rumored he is dead
Tony Anenih, former chairman of Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) board of trustees, has debunked his rumoured death, describing it as the handiwork of mischief makers. Rumours of the demise of the PDP...
View ArticleSanusi: How Jonathan dealt with me because I ‘touched’ Diezani
Former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor and current Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, said he fell out with Jonathan because he had touched his eye-candy minister at the time, erstwhile...
View Article‘If he pinches her breasts’| Senate wants horny university lecturers jailed...
A bill for a law which prescribes five-year jail term for lecturers who engage in sexual relationship with students passed its first reading in the Senate on Wednesday. The bill, sponsored by Ovie...
View ArticleMore public officials have declared their assets under Buhari–CCB
A lot more public officials in Nigeria have complied with the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) in declaring their assets in the Buhari dispensation than perhaps during any other period in Nigeria’s...
View ArticleCDS warns herdsmen to desist from killings or face the full wrath of the...
The military talked tough yesterday on the incidences of rampaging herdsmen across the country. Chief of Defence Staff, (CDS) General Abayomi Gabriel Olonishakin, told Fulani leaders that following...
View ArticleTwitter has been having a meltdown over this Omawumi interview {WATCH}
Should she have walked out on her interviewer? Should she have stayed on to see the interview to its logical conclusion? These are the questions that have split Naija twitter in two since Omawumi’s...
View ArticleAdeosun hits back at Ezekwesili: ‘We’re implementing a planned economy around...
The minister of finance, Kemi Adeosun, Thursday, responded to comments credited to former minister of education, Mrs Oby Ezekwesili, to the effect that the Buhari administration’s policies have hurt,...
View ArticleIheanacho demands salary raise from Man City
Manchester City and Super Eagles striker, Kelechi Iheanacho is asking for a pay hike from his employers. The 18-year-old has, through his managers, told the Manchester based side that he wants an...
View ArticleFormer Lagos Island chairman Adeniji-Adele is dead
Mr. Adeniji-Adele passed away in India where he had gone for a medical check-up after developing some complications, sources said. He was 60. Prince Adeniji-Adele was a former commissioner and also a...
View ArticleMilitants dare Buhari, blow up Chevron oil installation
Despite warnings from the federal government, some Niger Delta militants have blown the Chevron Valve Platform located on the high sea near Escravos in Warri South-West council area of Delta state,...
View ArticleI didn’t leak Sanusi’s letter to Obasanjo; I just made it public–Amaechi
Last night, we brought you this story about former CBN governor and now Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, relaying the events that led to his sack by erstwhile president Goodluck Jonathan. The main...
View ArticleAudu Ogbeh has a solution to Nigeria’s herdsmen crisis: import grass for cattle
The Minister of Agriculture, Audu Ogbeh, on Thursday said the importation and cultivation of good and nutritious grass will put a stop to the clashes between herdsmen and farmers. Ogbeh said this in...
View ArticleRay Ekpu: Senators must ask Saraki to resign
When Bukola Saraki defied the gods of party supremacy, scaled over all the booby traps set for him by his party, and put the crown of the Senate president on his head, he thought everything was okay....
View ArticleObasanjo doesn’t understand why Yoruba monarchs are embroiled in a supremacy...
Yoruba Obas have been engaged in a battle of who’s the greatest, for some time now, and former president Olusegun Obasanjo considers it all dim-witted. Speaking when the new Olubadan of Ibadanland,...
View ArticleClash between Igbo and Hausa claims 3 lives in Aba
Premium Times’ Nicholas Ibekwe reports that three persons were killed in Aba, Abia State, on Thursday, in clashes that started at the popular Ariaria Market. The clashes began in the afternoon mostly...
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