The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, on Thursday said calls for the scrapping of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme was unpatriotic.

IJAW Peoples Development Initiative, IPDI, Thursday , criticized the attempt by suspected Islamic fundamentalist group, Boko Haram, to shoot down the plane of President Goodluck Jonathan during his two-day visit to Borno State, last week.

The Chief Medical Director, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba( LUTH), Prof. Akin Osibogun, said that chronic kidney diseases was on the increase among youths.

POLICE in Delta State have arrested 26-suspected cultists in Kwale, Asaba and Warri in a renewed war against cultism in the state.

Many catholic faithful in Enugu city have expressed satisfaction with Wednesday’s election of Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.

US President Barack Obama offered “warm wishes” on behalf of the American people to newly elected Pope Francis on Wednesday, hailing the Argentine as “the first pope from the Americas.”

—There was a mild drama, yesterday, at the Ogun State Police Command, at Eleweran, Abeokuta, when a two-month old baby, Oyinkansola Adeosun, was paraded alongside her mother, Fausat Adeosun for alleged involvement in robbery and death of no fewer than five people.

AT 20, Nigeria’s home video industry, Nollywood, has assumed enough importance to receive presidential attention. Way before it turned 20; Nollywood had defined Nigeria internationally, through its daily offerings that are seen all over the word.

Snippets from the autopsy report on the 25 corpses dumped inside Ezu River in Amansea, Awka North Local Government Area of Anambra State, indicate that the deceased were extra-judicially murdered.

Irate commercial motorcyclists, popularly called, Okada riders, went on rampage yesterday in Akowonjo area of Alimosho Local Government when one of their colleagues was crushed to death by a fast moving articulated vehicle at Akowonjo roundabout.