27 killed in fresh Benue crisis
No fewer than 27 persons were feared killed in Benue state in the early hours of yesterday. The attack, which took place in Agena village of Mbaalom District of Gwer-East …
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No fewer than 27 persons were feared killed in Benue state in the early hours of yesterday. The attack, which took place in Agena village of Mbaalom District of Gwer-East …
27 killed in fresh Benue crisis Read More— We’re more legitimate than NASS, delegate says — You’re enemy of Nigeria, they accuse one another Delegates at the ongoing National Conference almost came to fisticuffs yesterday over whether …
Confab delegates in near blows Read MoreSuspected Boko Haram members in Volkswagen Golf cars yesterday rammed into a patrol vehicle of the police in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, killing five policemen, three civilians and injuring …
5 cops, 3 others killed in Borno suicide attack Read MoreThe conference yesterday rejected suggestions to hold executive sessions where sensitive matters can be discussed within close doors at the exclusion of the press. When the Chairman of conference Justice …
Conference rejects executive closed door sessions Read MoreDelegates at the ongoing National Conference were on two occasions thrown into total darkness yesterday as a result of power failure. The delegates who murmured in silence had to endure …
Power failure disrupts plenary session twice Read MoreThe Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), has condemned the slow pace on implementation of the Nigerian content in the oil and gas, which it attributed …
PENGASSAN flays poor implementation of Nigerian content in oil and gas Read MoreNorthern youths, under the aegis of the Arewa Youth Empowerment Initiative Programme, have described as “unfortunate” the death of applicants during the immigration recruitment exercise, saying that it was not …
Immigration recruitment: Arewa youths call for calm Read MoreShell Company has concluded plans to complete the building of the world class Bonga south west project, with a final investment decision taken by year-end 2014, Vice President Nigeria and …
Shell to complete Bonga south-west project by year-end Read MoreA Kano-based legal practitioner, Barrister Huwaila Ibrahim Ahmed, has said that western education was not responsible for moral degeneration, and rather blamed it on parents’ neglect in calling their children …
‘Western education not responsible for moral decadence’ Read MoreEmbattled former Federal High Court judge, Justice Gladys Olotu, who was retired recently by the National Judicial Council(NJC), yesterday approached a Federal High Court siting in Abuja seeking an order …
Court bars EFCC, police, others from arresting Justice Olotu Read MoreNo fewer than 10,000 existing taxpayer from the formal and informal sector in Edo state has registered for the Tax Identification Number (TIN). The project, which is in collaboration with …
10,000 adults get tax identity in Edo Read MoreChairman of the National conference Justice Idris Kutigi has said that where to submit the outcome of the national dialogue will be determined at the end of the session. Kutigi …
Confab chair, delegates disagree on destination of final report Read MoreInternal Displaced Persons (IDPs) from the killings in Benue have heaved a sigh of relief as they got relief materials from the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Monday. The …
Benue IDPs get relief materials Read MoreThe Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has distributed free fishing implements worth N20 million to 3, 000 fishermen affected by the 2012 flood disaster in Niger. Niger state …
3, 000 fishermen get free fishing implements in Niger Read MoreA former federal permanent secretary and Kaduna-based politician, Dr Hakeem Baba -Ahmed, has declared that more Northerners have been killed under President Jonathan’s close to six years regime than all …
‘More Northerners killed under Jonathan than during Civil War’ Read MoreAdamawa state chapter of the Muslim Council of Nigeria has urged the Muslim community in the state to sustain special prayers for an end to the current security challenges in …
Adamawa Muslim council urges prayers for peace Read MoreMany delegates yesterday and the day before it continued the second session of the conference without food as the operators of the Kitchen dismissed the people and told them there …
Delegates in endless search for food Read MoreThe conference adjourned abruptly yesterday when delegates could not agree on the mode of arriving at a consensus. The more contentious issue of whether it was 2/3 or 3/4 votes …
Conference adjourns abruptly over mode of reaching consensus Read MoreThe House of Representatives yesterday declared that the N19.7 billion Police Equipment Fund the Central Bank of Nigeria said it paid the Nigeria Police Force was missing. This followed a …
N19.7bn CBN Police Equipment Fund missing – Reps Read MoreFactional President of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) Comrade Yakubu Shendam has tasked members at the ongoing National Conference to heed to the advice President Goodluck Jonathan offered …
NYCN tasks delegates on new approaches Read MoreThe Managing Director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Engr. Saleh Dunoma, has said that adequate budgetary provisions had been made for the completion of all the remodelled …
Airport terminals to be completed soon – FAAN Read MoreKaduna state Governor, Dr. Mukhtar Ramalan Yero, has decried the dangerous trend of wanton destruction of lives and property in the state and across the country, saying that “it is …
Yero decries attacks, killings in Kaduna Read MoreSuspected Boko Haram members in Volkswagen Golf cars yesterday rammed into a patrol vehicle of the police in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, killing five policemen, three civilians and injuring …
Suicide bombers attack Borno police van Read MoreYouths of Ugbokolo town in Okpokwu local government area of Benue state, under the aegis Ugbokolo Youth Council (UYC), have expressed their heartfelt sympathy with the relations, families and friends …
NIS tragedy: Ugbokolo youths commiserate with victims’ families Read MoreCatholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Rev. Mathew Hassan Kukah, is to deliver the 43rd convocation lecture of the University of Nigeria on Thursday (tomorrow) with the theme “After the …
Bishop Kukah to deliver 43rd UNN convocation lecture tomorrow Read More