Beyond the Headlines
More startling revelations have come out of the ongoing screening of all categories of civil servants in Niger State as 80 per cent of staff of the state Ministry of Education have been uncovered to be in the service for several years with forged certificates. Already, the principal actor of a syndicate behind printing of […]
At the instance of Governor Nasir El-Rufai, troops of the Nigerian Army and police operatives have been deployed to Kaduna Airport Road on Sunday in Kaduna. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the deployment also covers some strategic locations, where aggressive operations by troops and police are in progress. The deployment was aimed […]
Chairman, Kaduna State Council of Chiefs and 18th Emir of Zazzau, Alhaji Shehu Idris, has died. The Waziri of Zazzau, Mallam Ibrahim Muhammad, who confirmed the emir’s death, said he died at the 44 Army Reference Hospital, Kaduna in the early hours of yesterday at the age of 84. Shehu Idris was crowned Emir of […]
…Villager battles gunman, seizes AK-47 rifle Gunmen, weekend, raided Gobirawan Cali community in Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State, kidnapping over 40 peasant farmers. A villager told the British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, Hausa Service that the gunmen stormed the communities, shooting sporadically, as inhabitants ran into the bush to avoid being hit by bullets. […]
A 14- year- old secondary school pupil, Fathia Ojewoye , has been raped to death at the Agbeloba – Oriyonrin area of Abeokuta, Ogun State . The teenager had on Wednesday been declared missing by her parents , but her corpse was found three days after with some of her personal effects in an uncompleted […]
• She was killed four days after introduction – Brother The family of a 28- year -old graduate of the Institute of Management and Technology , Enugu, Ifeoma Abugu, has been thrown into mourning after she was allegedly sexually assaulted and killed by the personnel of the Special Anti -Robbery Squad, Federal Capital Territory Command, […]
……PDP candidate scores 307 , 955 , party says we’ ve retired godfathers , caged lions …..Obaseki was busy rigging while raising false alarm , claims beaten opposition party The Independent National Electoral Commission on Sunday declared the incumbent Governor of Edo State , Godwin Obaseki, as the winner of Saturday’ s governorship election in […]
The Lagos State Emergency Managment Agency (LASEMA) has said that its ambulance team at Eti-osa delivered Ms Blessing Emmanuel, a 35 year-old woman of a live male baby. Dr Olufemi Damilola Oke-Osanyintolu, DG/CEO LASEMA, told Newsmen on Saturday that the baby was delivered at about 4:30 p.m under the Ajah Bridge. ”The lady, who has […]
Following President Muhammadu Buhari’s request, Presidents of West African countries have reiterated their commitment to ensure that a Nigerian former minister for finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala clinches the position of Director-General of the World Trade Organization. They also urged Africa to unite behind her candidacy as the continent’s best option in the hotly contested race. […]
Eight persons were on Saturday night burnt to death in a lone accident involving a Mazda bus on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. Mr Ahmed Umar, the Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abeokuta on Sunday. Umar explained that the accident, which occurred at […]
