A lorry owner, Oluwatosin Adebanjo, has instituted a case of criminal intimidation against one Captain Ezemegbu of the 23rd Armoured Brigade, Yola, Adamawa State. He is praying an Adamawa State Magistrates’ Court in Yola to compel the captain to take…
Intelligentsia group across universities in South-East and South-South under the aegis of Academic Democrats at the weekend unanimously restated their resolve to work for the Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and his running mate,…
Thousands of members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria stormed the Kubwa Expressway in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on Sunday, to demand the release of the group’s leader, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, and to protest the killing of Shiites by the…
An Indonesian Lion Air plane carrying 188 passengers and crew crashed into the sea on Monday, officials said, moments after it had asked to be allowed to return to Jakarta. The jet vanished from radar just 13 minutes after taking…
Some officers in the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police in Anambra State have threatened to go on strike over the non-payment of their 2017 promotion allowances. They called on the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to intervene in their…
About three weeks after the controversial local government elections in Plateau State, the Peoples Democratic Party on Saturday said it had lined up 20 lawyers, including Senior Advocates of Nigeria, to challenge irregularities at the Local Government Election Appeals Tribunal.…
The President, Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has initiated a new project aimed at celebrating hardworking homemakers. The project, tagged the World Puff-puffDay, is to be celebrated on October 27 every year, according to Dangote Flour Mills. Two tonnes (40 bags of…
A suicide bomber targeting the headquarters of Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Monday killed at least one person and injured six, officials said, in the latest violence to strike the controversial poll. There was no immediate claim of responsibility…
A police officer who was said to be part of the police team that allegedly killed Anita Akapson in Abuja, is involved in the investigation into the homicide, Northern City News has learnt. Akapson, the daughter of a former Minister…
A group of Yoruba youths known as the Yoruba Youth Socio-cultural Association has warned Asiwaju Bola Tinubu against supporting President Muhammadu Buhari reelection in 2019. The President of the YYSA, Mr Olalekan Hammed, made the position of the group known…
