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  Pictorial: NANNM protests Kidnapping of UBTH nurses Members of the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives, Friday, took to the street of Benin City, Edo State, to protest the ‎abduction of two nurses of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital.    

Even by their own loquacious standard of adult delinquency and bad manners, the rowdy altercation in the Senate, which degenerated into a shouting match between Sen. Dino Melaye, (APC-Kogi West) and Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, (APC-Lagos Central) and wife of APC national leader, Bola Tinubu, set a new low, in what, unfortunately, has become the unedifying […]

Business owners in Abuja have been warned to stop keeping cash overnight in their shops and homes. The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Commissioner of Police (CP), Muhammad Mustafa Made the call on Thursday.   He gave the advice in a statement on Thursday by the FCT police spokesman, ASP Anjuguri Manzah, said the CP advised […]

I wrote a piece recently, a tribute to the late veteran actress Bukky Ajayi and the multi-instrumentalist OJB Jezreel, in which I raised a number of issues, including how in Nollywood today, there is an obsession with the whitening of skin, an anti-Negritude yellowing, what I referred to as “the bleaching, chameleon crowd of Nollywood […]

Africa’s leading cement producer, Dangote Cement Plc has reported a revenue of N292 billion in the second quarter ended June 30th 2016 indicating an increase of 20 percent over N242 billion posted in the corresponding period in 2015. According to the reports filed with the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), the company’s Profit for period stands at […]

Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has again reiterated that as governor of Rivers State for eight years, he was transparent and did not embezzle money meant for the people. Amaechi said, as governor, he did not receive over N3.trillion naira as alleged by his successor, Nyesom Wike.   Amaechi made the clarification at a stakeholders’ forum […]Read More

The Turkish Government says it had alerted Nigeria about the existence of schools and hospitals owned by suspected terrorists in Nigeria. The revelation is coming after the failed coup in the country was linked to a US General with links in Nigeria.  The government of Turkey therefore  demanded that the facilities be shut down. Turkey […]

The Nigeria Football Federation executive committee has given a day ultimatum to the NFF committee to announce the name  of a Technical Adviser for the senior national team. The NFF committe has said that a Technical Adviser will be announced in August. This is however necessary following the federation’s failure to obtain Frenchman Paul Le […]

 The recent threat by  Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State to arrest Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate before the 10th September 2016 gubernatorial election has been described as ludicrous and that his comments are indicative of the fact that he is “nervous and unsettled that the PDP’s moving train will […]

Chief Olisa Metuh an erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party has on Thursday has distance himself from a court action established by a factional National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff and others seeking to prevent the party from commencing with the August 17 national convention. Metuh who […]

No fewer than 12,915 `ghost workers,’ have been lumped into the payroll of the 23 local government areas of Sokoto State. This discovery was  on Thursday disclosed by Alhaji Mannir Dan-Iya, the Commissioner for Local Government and Community Development  at a media briefing in Sokoto. ” The ministry, through the monitoring department and other stakeholders […]

Against the backdrop of  the hardship currently being witnessed by Nigerians as a result of  his administration`s unorthodox economic policies,  President Muhammadu Buhari, Thursday,  revealed that his government is acutely aware of challenges of life facing the average citizen, and begged  Muslim religious leaders to carry the message of hope to the people that things will improve. At […]Read More