By AbdulSalam Muhammad
Kano – In line with the annual Ramadan feeding instituted by Shekarau administration 6 years ago, the state Government has released N120million to Zakkah and Hubusi Commission to facilitate this year feeding exercise across the state.
A commissioner with the Zakkah and Hubusi Commission, Alhaji Sa’idu Muhammad Koki told newsmen in Kano [...]
STAFF Union of Universities including the Academic Staff Union of Universities, the Non-Academic Staff Union, and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, have accused the Federal Government of using divide-and-rule tactics to distract the unions in the fight for improved standards for the universities.
NATIONAL Coordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Otunba Gani Adams has dissociated his group over an alleged murder of one Mr Igbekele Oyeleye also known as Sparco in Arigidi-Akoko North West local government area of Ondo State.
Adamawa State Police Command has given more insights into the arrest of 31 suspected members of the Muslim sectarian group, “Boko Haramâ€.
CRISIS in the Progressive Peoples Alliance(PPA) yesterday deepened with a faction loyal to the Deputy National Chairman, South-West, Lisa Olu Akerele suspending the Chairman, Board of Trustees(BOT), Chief Orji Uzor Kalu from the party and bringing in the former as the Acting National Chairman.
Okah and Tompolo met face to face because Tompolo wanted to give Henry a brotherly hug. They had been talking since his release as the relationship has been very cordial. Other aspects of the meeting were held behind closed door.
For several weeks on, all government-owned universities have been shut as a result of the “Academic Staff being on strike. Things have been this way for decades now. Yet we have still not devised an effective method to manage the crisis.
On December 21st, 1988, PanAm Flight 103 was just seeking its cruising height for a smooth flight to the United States when it crashed over the Scottish town of Lockerbie. No less than 269 souls were lost, not counting 11 others on the ground. It was the result of an explosion caused by a bomb that had been planted by terrorists who tore through the ‘eighties with dastardly acts of mass murder in a variety of execution.
Sanusi who was quoted by Reuters while speaking in London at the conference the CBN governor called to reassure counter-party banks and foreign investors about the bailout said that he would not “stand in the way of any foreign banks taking a 100 per cent stake in the five Nigerian institutionsâ€. The CBN also said that the five banks will be run as going concerns until new investors can be found to recapitalise them.
In every place where amnesty had occurred it was done as a process. Irish region is an example. In Ireland , Britain thought after many years of oppression of the Irish people they realised that it was proper to talk. They went to IRA and they were referred to the Shinfane.
Assaulted and kidnapped 70-yr-old man, others
By Ifeanyi Okolie
Residents of Amazu-Uno, Arondizuogu Community in Ideator North Local Government Area of Imo State will not forget in a hurry, the fate that befell them on August 14, 2009.
It was a day one of their sons and a prominent politician unleashed mayhem [...]
By Dennis Agbo
Abakalik i-THE Ebonyi state police command under CP Kachi Udeoji has been thrown into confusion over what to do with one constable (names withheld) in Kpirikpri police station , Abakaliki, who was allegedly shot at the Ebonyi State Teaching Hospital where he, with some other suspected robbers, attacked staff of the teaching [...]
By Ifeanyi Okolie
A notorious Kidnapping Segun Akinsola (24) met his waterloo recently in Lagos when detectives attached to the State Criminal Investigations Bureau (CIB) arrested him for allegedly spearheading the abduction of a 14-year-old boy at Ikotun.
The same suspect had early this year, with one Lekan Faniran, kidnapped a six- year- old boy [...]
Ruling on an application filed by Aregbesola yesterday, trial magistrate Kabir Lamido said he is convinced on the basis of a passenger receipt dated June 6 2009, that the accused person had already concluded plans to go for the lesser hajj before his arrest and subsequent arraignment on August 10, adding that it would amount to an infringement if the embattled politicians is barred from going to fulfil his religious obligations.
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