Kaduna Govt imposes 24-hour curfew on troubled communities (PremiumTimes) The Kaduna State Government has imposed a 24-hour curfew on Kwaru and Ungwan Yero, two communities affected by violence. This extends the 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. curfew earlier imposed on…
President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Tam David-West, a professor and former federal minister of petroleum and energy, who turned 82 on Sunday, August 26, 2018. This is contained in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja by Femi Adesina, the Special…
Man tears own intestines while pushing boiled eggs down anus (Punch) A man who pushed 15 hard-boiled eggs up his rectum had to undergo emergency surgery after tearing his intestines. The 29-year-old man had taken a psychoactive drug when he…
Lagos and the global livability index (Guardian) It is with more than a little shame and discomfiture that the state of Lagos, and indeed the country at large, should receive the latest Global Livability Index, which rated Nigeria’s commercial nerve…
US President Donald Trump and his predecessors, former presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Jimmy Carter, have paid tributes in memory of John McCain who died on Saturday. McCain, 81, a Republican Senator representing Arizona at the congress since…
Peter Obi, a former governor of Anambra, has said that Nigerian economy is on life support due to the rising debt profile of about N22.7 trillion. Obi, disclosed this at the ‘2018 This Generation Conference’ organised by the Summit Bible…
Women Arise for Change Initiatives, an NGO, on Saturday advised Nigerian women not to allow themselves to be silenced by anti-democratic elements in the society. Joe Okei-Odumakin, President of the group, said in Lagos that women had the right to…
Ahmed Markafi, Nigerian Senator and Presidential Aspirant on the platform of the PDP, Sen. has appealed to supporters of the party to field only credible candidates for positions in the 2019 general elections. Makarfi, a former Interim National Chairman of…
Bukola Saraki, Nigeria’s Senate President, has said he is not losing sleep over plots and threats by the All Progressives Congress to impeach him. Saraki stated that those who are drumming for his removal have cascaded to using “cheap blackmail”…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has bounced back to reckoning in Delta State with the newest resolution of the former governor of the state, Emmanuel Uduaghan, to pitch tent with the party, an earth-shattering political judgment that has paradoxically sent…
