Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade has warned Yoruba people against allowing the distortion of the history of their race, saying it is causing colossal damage to the people’s cultural values.

Another set of terrorists, yesterday, ambushed motorists along Maiduguri-Damboa-Biu Road, setting ablaze two trucks loaded with oranges and another Toyota hilux vehicle, after abducting their drivers and taking them an unknown destination

Since the early 1990s, Nigerians have been calling for a Sovereign National Conference, or some form of national discourse to deliberate on some knotty issues that have remained recurrent in our national life.

The Plateau State Police command, yesterday, paraded the woman who, last week, stole a seven-day old baby in Bokkos Local Government Area and her accomplice who had faked a pregnancy to con her husband for seven months.

Turkey’s sports minister lashed out on Monday at moves by the football authorities to punish two top Ivorian club players for paying homage to Nelson Mandela.

Exactly eight years ago today, 61 students of the Loyola Jesuit College (LJC) were headed home for the Christmas holidays when the Sosoliso aircraft conveying them crashed in Port Harcourt.

Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama, Archbishop of Catholic Archdiocese of Jos weekend, called on Christians to emulate people with exemplary lives like former South African President, Nelson Mandela.

The Chairman/CEO of Richbon Group, Chief C. J. Chike Mounagolu, has said that the introduction of the XGMA range of construction equipment by his company will end patronage of used construction equipment in the country.

The Middle Belt Development Association has called on the Federal Government to take decisive steps to end the violence being unleashed on Nigerians in parts of the country by the Boko Haram sect.

Following political intrigues rocking the polity ahead of the 2015 general elections, former Military Governor of Imo and Lagos states and a leader of the National Democratic Coalition, NADECO, Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu, yesterday, said the country would not disintegrate.

Gombe—Gombe State Government says it is distributing N4.2 million drugs to the public to curb Onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, in all the 11 local government areas of the state. The Coordinator, River Blindness Disease Control Programme in the state, Mrs Talatu Danzaria, announced this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, […]

BENIN—THERE was ju-bilation in Edo North senatorial district of Edo State, yesterday, following the victory of All Progressives Congress, APC, senator representing the area, Senator Domingo Obende, at the Appeal Court, in Abuja.
The senatorial candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Yisa Braimoh, had filed a suit against Obende, alleging that the primary school certificate presented by Obende for the 2011 National Assembly election was forged.

The Southern Kaduna People’s Union, SOKAPU, yesterday demanded that the vacant ministerial seat for Kaduna State should filled by a qualified indigene of the area.

A Chief Magistrate Court, sitting in Ringim, Jigawa State, Alhaji Nuhu Dawaki Aminu, has ordered the Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG, Zone 1, to arrest Senator Danladi Sankara and bring him to his court on December 23, 2013.

EDO State governor, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, will today, present the 2014 appropriation bill to the state House of Assembly for consideration and approval.