Edwin Clark, an Ijaw national leader, has described the newly passed Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) as “satanic, unjust and embarrassing”. Last week, the national assembly passed the PIB, raising the frontier basins exploration fund to 30 percent. Reacting to the passed bill, Clark, who is also the leader of the Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), in […]
Police in the United Kingdom have said that a Nigerian-born footballer, Odichukumma Kelvin Igweani, was gunned down after killing a neighbour. UK-based newspapers, DailyMail and TheSUN quoted the police as alleging that the 24-year-old Nigerian also held a toddler captive. The police said Richard Woodcock, a 38-year-old council highways officer had raced to help after […]
Two persons are said to have lost their lives after bandits invaded Bethel Baptist School, a private college in Kaduna State, kidnapping an unspecified number of students. The kidnappers in the early hours of Monday attacked the private school located at Maraban Rido within the Chikun Local Government Area of the state. Sources say the […]
There will be no hiding place for foreign nationals and their collaborators who want to turn the country into a dumping ground for substandard products, Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Otunba Niyi Adebayo, has said. Adebayo gave the warning at the commissioning of Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Ekiti State office and laboratory at […]
A magistrate court in the Adamawa State capital, Yola, has handed a man a nine-year jail term for deserting a girl he impregnated and for attempting to desert justice when it was pronounced on him. The man, Zakaria Mallam who was brought before the court by his girlfriend, Maryam Usman, for abandoning her after he […]
Governors of the southern region are holding a meeting in Lagos State. The meeting is a follow-up to the earlier meeting in Asaba hosted by the Delta state Governor where the governors agreed on far-reaching conclusions on open grazing, restructuring Nigeria, and calls for state police. Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu received the governors at […]
Two kids, Eric Abba and Aondona Eric Abba, who lived in Plot 109, Captain Downes street, Gboko East in Benue State have been found killed by the adductors. The Nation gathered the seven-year-old and six-year-old were abducted around the J.S. Tarka Institute of Political Studies last Saturday around 5pm. It was learnt the kids left […]
Chidinma Ojukwu, the University of Lagos (UNILAG) undergraduate accused of murdering Mr Usifo Ataga, says the man slept with her on the first day they met. Ataga, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Super TV, was found dead days after checking into an apartment with the suspect in Lekki, Lagos. The suspect had fled the […]
While the former president may have claimed resignation from political activities, he remains active in the mobilisation of people Former President Olusegun Obasanjo is reportedly working on the establishment of a new political party aimed at accommodating aggrieved members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). According to a source […]
Hoodlums have chopped off the manhood of Matador from Orsu Iheti Ukwa in Imo State. The man was seen tied in a viral video horizontally to a stick and subjected to inhuman treatment by the suspected hoodlums. The hoodlums were heard accusing him of being a saboteur responsible for military bombardment of Orlu during an […]
