Zamfara to relocate flood victims
Talata-Mafara (Zamfara) – The Zamfara Government has pledged to relocate the victims of the flood disaster which occurred in Talata-Mafara town on Tuesday. The disaster, which occurred at about 3 a.m. due to a downpour lasted about 12 hours and rendered more than 207 people homeless. Gov. Mahmud Shinkafi made the pledge yesterday in Talata-Mafara, […]
5 killed, 15 injured in Anambra communal crisis
By Vincent Ujumadu AWKA – THE communal crisis in Nkerehi in Orumba South Local Government Area of Anambra State has escalated with five persons feared dead and 15 others sustaining injuries in the latest confrontation between the two opposing camps. Seven houses were also burnt and properties were either destroyed or looted. The crisis started […]
AGENDAISM IN POLITICS: The consequences on the nation
THE recent happenings in the country have led to the resuscitation or rebirth of the old gimmicks by politicians or people under political or economic pressure to ascribe their woes to either ethnicity or some hidden agenda.
Lockerbie: Bellyaching over a just release
THE storm of protests and rage in Europe and America over the release of convicted Lockerbie ‘bomber’ Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi by the Scottish authorities is still gathering like a destructive American hurricane.
Edo gets N908.99m grant
EDO State government said yesterday that it has received a grant of N908, 994,440 under the 2008 Conditional Grant Scheme.
Kwara PDP denies endorsing Saraki’s guber ambition
By Demola Akinyemi Ilorin – The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara State has stated that it has not endorsed Senator Gbemisola Saraki as the gubernatorial candidate of the party, just as it denied any rift between the senator and her brother, Governor Bukola Saraki over the governorship race in the state on 2011 polls. […]
