Beyond the Headlines
Many residents have been reportedly killed and houses burnt in a crisis that ensued between herders and farmers in Mai Tumbi community of Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau. Our correspondent reports that the clash started on Friday, and is still on at the time of filing this report. A resident, Ibrahim Musa, […]
At least 97 people have been killed in Sudan as fighting between the country’s army and a paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) enters third day, Alazeera is reporting. Fighting continued on Monday including fresh bombardment despite a ceasefire agreement reached by both groups. PREMIUM TIMES reported how fighting erupted in Khartoum on Saturday between […]
The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, says mouth cancers, also known as oral cancers, claims 764 lives in Nigeria every year. He spoke in Abuja yesterday during an oral cancer training programme organised by the Cleft and Facial Deformity Foundation (CFDF). Represented by the head of dentistry division of the ministry, Dr Gloria Uzoigwe, […]
Abubakar Malami, attorney-general of the federation (AGF) and minister of justice, wants court cases related to OPL 245 terminated by the federal government because the prospects of a judicial victory are slim, TheCable can report. In a memo to President Muhammadu Buhari, Malami advised that the termination of the cases will allow the country […]
Two hoodlums have been nabbed by the Osun State Police Command for extorting a student, Yusuf Joseph, of N150,000. The suspects, Sodeeq Adegoke, 24 and Abubakar Ajibola, 24, were paraded at the Osun Police Command headquarters in Osogbo, yesterday. One of the suspects, Adegoke confessed waylaying the victim on the road and leading him […]
Barring any last-minute change of plans, the Federal Government will begin payment of the planned increase in civil servants’ pay by the end of this month (April), The PUNCH can report. The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, retd, is expected to give his final assent for disbursement any moment from now. If the proposal […]
Unidentified gunmen have killed two aides and kidnapped their boss, who is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State According to Vanguard, the furious kidnappers also shot three of the police escorts attached to the respected legal luminary. It was gathered that the three policemen who sustained various degrees of […]
Governor Umaru Ahmadu Fintiri of the Peoples Democratic Party, has won the governorship election in Adamawa State. The incumbent governor garnered 430,869 votes to beat Senator Aisha Dahiru Binani of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who scored 398,788. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had slated April 15th for the supplementary elections to complete […]
The Imo State police command on Tuesday said that it’s men dislodged a camp of Eastern Security Network located at Ubah Agwa / Izombe tropical forest in the Oguta Local Government Area of the state. A statement issued by the spokesperson for the police in the state, Henry Okoye, disclosed that three Automatic Pump […]
Federal High Court in Abuja has nullified the removal of Senator Ifeanyi Ararume as a non-executive Chairman of the newly Incorporated Nigeria National Petroleum Company, (NNPC). Justice Inyang Ekwo in his judgment ordered that the sum of 5 billion Naira be awarded to Ararume for damages incurred as a result of his removal from […]
