The Sokoto state Police Command has arrested a 35-year old woman, Asma’u Ibrahim for allegedly setting her adopted son, Mohammed Mubarak Bala, aged ten ablaze.
FOUR men have been arrested in Igbokoda area of Ondo state ahead of today’s Bye Election into the Ilaje Constituency 11in the House of Assembly with pump action guns.
TRAGEDY occurred yesterday when an unidentified tanker driver suspected to be a smuggler of petroleum products lost control of his vehicle around the popular Bama_ Banki Junction and ram into passengers and trapped them when he was about to negotiate his way, living the driver and the passengers dead.
FORMER NFA board member Chief Taiwo Ogunjobi may be under probe from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over his activities in the NFA but the former Shooting Stars Sports Club manager still influential in Nigerian football .
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A chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in Lagos State and House of Representatives aspirant for Alimosho Federal Constituency, Alhaji Mohammed Mufutau Lawal, has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to consider the interest of national unity and reconciliation in pardoning Col. Hamza Al-Mustapha and others by releasing them from detention.
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has said the Economic Community of West Africa, ECOWAS, was in support of current efforts by the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries, CPLP, to restore permanent peace and political stability in Guinea Bissau.
The Federal Government has taken over the Umaru Musa International Cargo Airport under construction in Zarama in the outskirts of Yenagoa the Bayelsa State capital.
Nigerian junior athletes and their birth certificate, were a major topic of discussion at the IAAF World Junior Championships, which was concluded last Sunday with Nigeria racking in three silver medals. Margaret Etim won an individual 400m silver. She then teamed up with the women 4x400m to bag another silver, while the men 4x400m won the third silver.
TEARS flowed freely yesterday evening in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital following the electrocution of an 18 year-old girl, Hanatu Saraki,during the disconnections of power lines by debtors of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) within the metropolis.
One man who sat in the panel that employed Swede coach Lars Lagerback to take Nigeria to the World Cup in South Africa Chief Adegboye Onigbinde has said the Swede has no business coming back to Nigeria.
As the interrogation of the NFA board members continues by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, former Stationery Stores coach Kashimawo Laloko has urged the EFCC to do a good job.
Nigerian men surrendered the 100m gold of the African Championships for the first time in eight years, when Obinna Metu and Ogho-Oghene Egwero failed to beat Cote’s Ivoire’s Ben Youssef Meite and Ghana’s veteran Aziz Zakare in Thursday’s final.
Nigerian men surrendered the 100m gold of the African Championships for the first time in eight years, when Obinna Metu and Ogho-Oghene Egwero failed to beat Cote’s Ivoire’s Ben Youssef Meite and Ghana’s veteran Aziz Zakare in Thursday’s final.
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