Two suspected Islamists killed in Kano blast
Two suspected members of Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram were killed Saturday when an explosive they tried to throw at policemen at a checkpoint went off in the flashpoint city of Kano, police said.
Five suspects in prison over possession of human skull
For allegedly killing a 7-year old boy and as well be in possession of a human skull, five accused persons were yesterday remanded in prison custody by an Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court.
Alamieyeseigha: Unpardonable pardon
President Goodluck Jonathan is facing scathing criticism from a cross section of the Nigerian people which seemed unabated, over a presidential pardon granted to impeached former governor of BayelsaState, Chief Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha, convicted for money laundering and corrupt enrichment.
Kano blast: It was a brief life in hell – Hamisu Usman
Survivors of last Monday Motor park bombing in Kano have continued to recount their ordeal from their hospital beds.
Gunmen invasion: 80-year old village head slumps, dies
He made to escape from death, but it would seem death was determined not to spare him on that fateful Sunday night. Hearing gunshots from a nearby house, 80-year old Da Dung Bot Gwom, the village head of Tapo in Heipang District of Barkin-Ladi Local Government Area did not want to leave anything to chance.
The Man Achebe ….
Turning in a widening gyre, the falcon could not hear the falconer, things fall apart and the center could not hold , mere anarchy is loosed upon the earth, that is the W. B. Yeats lines that announced the title of the famous book written by the Iroko of African and world literature Professor Chnualumogu Achebe, 82, who passed to the land of the spirits yesterday in Boston, Massachusetts. It is sun set for Professor Chinua Achebe and the world is full of tributes and recollections of the poet, the broadcaster, the critic and the progressive politician and above all the master of prose, when shall we have another?
