Police hunt for killers of Imo bus driver

The Commissioner of Police in Imo, Mr Rabiu Ladodo, has given assurance that the force would arrest and prosecute the killers of a bus driver in the state, Chinedu Ogoke. The commissioner gave the assurance in a statement made available in Owerri on

NAF jets destroy Boko Haram assembly point, several insurgents killed

Kingsley Omonobi – Abuja The Nigerian Air force said on Monday that its Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation Lafiya Dole has destroyed a location at Boboshe on the fringes of the Sambisa Forest in Borno State used by Boko Haram terrorists as

Nigeria’s opposition elusive

By Garba Shehu Last week, the Nigeria’s senate majority leader reintroduced anti-sexual harassment legislation to parliament, following a serious exposé by the BBC of a sex for grades scandal at the University of Lagos. The bill had been tabled before – in 2016

Maina has started speaking up on how he spent the N24bn ―Source

Soni Daniel The embattled former chairman of the Pension Reforms Task Team, Faisal Abdulrasheed Maina “has started speaking up on how he spent the N24 billion”. A top EFCC official conversant with the matter told Vanguard that Maina had started speaking up on

Just in: Sanwo-Olu declares state of emergency on Lagos roads

Lagos State Government has declared a state of emergency on various dilapidated highways and carriages within the State. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Sunday at the Lagos House Marina, ordered massive construction work on critical roads and highways across the State, beginning from Monday

OKPARA’S INAUGURATION AS OCCIMA PRESIDENT, A YES-YES

  Thursday, September 26, 2019 was a day hard work, determination, innovation and leadership was celebrated. A day Mr Everest Okpara was formally invested as the President of Owerri Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture.   It was a most colourful event

Aisha Buhari explains why she had a prolong stay abroad

Augustine Ehikioya, Abuja    Wife of the President Mrs. Aisha Buhari has given reasons why she stayed for so long abroad. She spoke on Sunday on arrival back in the country around 4.30am  Nigerian time on a British Airways flight. On why she

Bloody Saturday: Armed robbers behead police sergeant in an operation in Ilorin

By Demola Akinyemi – Ilorin   Dare-devil armed robbers on Saturday night attacked Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) mega station along Asa dam road in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital and among other officers beheaded a police sergeant who was on duty. The

Kidnappers release eight Abuja abductees, collect N5 million ransom

Gbenga Omokhunu, Abuja  Eight out of the 10 persons abducted last Monday by gunmen at Pegi, a community in Kuje Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have been released. After series of plead, THE NATION learnt that the victims were freed

JUST IN: Robbers behead police sergeant, security personnel in Ilorin

From Adekunle Jimoh, Ilorin Armed robbers on Saturday attacked Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) mega station in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital. The men of the underworld were said to have struck when staffers of the station had left for their respective homes.