Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s Dreams and Assorted Nightmares reads like a voyage into a Stephen King world – reality with a twist of terror. But Abu writes like a hair maker deftly plaiting perfect cornrows laced with a dark weave. He…
Dawn At Twilight by Ijegalu Simon Felix; Zizach Books, Kaduna (ISBN: 978-978-990-279-8); 2021; 181pp Most first novels are almost always autobiographical. The debut novel of Ijegalu Simon Felix, Dawn at Twilight, is a rites-of-passage offering that climaxes on a visionary…
Super TV CEO: Why police released suspect’s father -Lagos CP (Punch) The Lagos State Police Command has released the father of 21-year-old student of the University of Lagos, who allegedly stabbed the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga,…
Wife exposes pastor who staged own kidnap to extort brother (Nation) A self-proclaimed pastor resident in Maraba, Nasarawa State has been arrested for arranging his own abduction in order to extort money from his wealthy family. Forty-seven-year-old Richard Onyekachukwu said…
Court sentences trader to 25 years imprisonment for raping tailor (Nation) An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Friday sentenced a 43-year-old trader, Adelaja Oloyede, to 25-years imprisonment for raping a tailor. Justice Abiola Soladoye found Oloyede guilty…
Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Dr Folasade Yemi-Esan, said in Abuja on Thursday that poor documentations and lack of understanding of procedures are some of the reasons for the delayed payment of death gratuities to next of…
As security agents continue to battle flashpoints of conflict and insecurity across the country, a 12-year-old insurgency in the Northeast has caused the deaths of some 324,000 children under five, mostly from disease and hunger, while lives lost to conflict…
The Department of State Services was said to have quizzed controversial Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi over his interview on Arise Television that Nigerian soldiers aid and abet bandits. The controversial Islamic cleric was invited to the Kaduna office of…
A 24-year-old woman, Abibat Kehinde, has been abandoned at Epe General Hospital, Lagos State, over N131,000 unpaid bills, three months after she gave birth to twins at the hospital. Kehinde told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in…
Vigilantes and hunters have arrested two kidnappers and recovered an AK47 and a pump-action rifle near Koton-Karfe, along the Abuja-Lokoja expressway. Both men were arrested in a fierce gun battle with vigilantes and hunters at a forest near Idu village…
