Beyond the Headlines
The House of Representatives Member, who was officially recognised as the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, by the Independent National Electoral Commission on Friday, Chukwuma Umeoji, has commended Governor Willie Obiano for his support. Umeoji, who belongs to the Chief Jude Okeke’s faction of APGA, stated this in the text of a speech […]
The Imo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress(APC) has affirmed that it can not meet up with former governor of the State, Rochas Okorocha’s demand for reconciliation with the governor Hope Uzodimma led All Progressive Congress(APC). Addressing newsmen on Friday, State chairman of the party, Marcellinus Nlemigbo disclosed that all efforts have been made […]
Tired and frustrated with the spate of killings and kidnappings in Kaduna State, youths from the southern part of the state, on Saturday morning, protest the worsening security under the watch of the governor and chief security officer of the state, Nasir el-Rufai. According to the youths, who gathered at the Unity Fountain in Abuja, […]
SHEIKH Abduljabar Nasir Kabara will celebrate this year’s Sallah festivity in police custody as he has been ordered by an Upper Sharia Court in Kano presided over by Ibrahim Sarki Yola to be remanded in police custody. The presiding judge, Ibrahim Sarki Yola, read the charges: “That you Sheikh Nasiru Kabara also known as Abduljabbar […]
Abba Kyari, a Deputy Commissioner of Police, who attended the burial of the mother of Obinna Iyiegbu, better known as Obi Cubana, has explained why he took time to be there. The burial, which held at Oba in Idemili North Local Government of Anambra State, has been the talk of town. Businessmen, politicians, musicians, actors […]
The Nigerian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Sarafa Isola, met with eminent Yoruba leaders and Ohaneze Ndigbo in London on Friday to dialogue on current security issues in Nigeria. The minutes of the meetings, which took place at the Nigerian High Commission office, was e-mailed to the News Agency of Nigeria in Jos on […]
A stepmother has deployed a hot knife to inflict serious injuries on her stepson’s eyes and other parts of his body for daring to take food from the pot in her absence. Eight years old Ahmad Shehu Amir, who is said to be suffering from sickle cell anaemia, said he had returned from his Islamic […]
THE peaceful atmosphere being enjoyed in the South East geopolitical zone after the activities of the infamous unknown gunmen strikes that led to the death of many people in the area has again been cut short following renewed attacks in parts of the zone. In the last two weeks, no fewer than 20 lives have […]
Media chiefs in the country have said the media won’t be deterred by the directive of the Federal Government that the media should not divulge “details” of the activities of bandits, terrorists and kidnappers in their reports. The President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors, Mustapha Isah; the National President of the Nigeria Union of […]
suspected militant leader, weekend, laid ambush on the Benin River for members of Egbema Kingdom Peace Keepers collaborating with ex-militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, to keep peace in Warri North Local Government Area, Delta State, massacring six of them. The atrocity forced the Joint Task Force, which suspended the siege to Egbema kingdom, following […]
