Confab: Nigeria is better off united— Irikefe
Dr Benjamin Onoriode Irikefe, National Patron of the National Coalition for Jonathan and Sambo Presidency, a political association that encompasses over 698 other groups rooting for the president’s re-election, in this interview speaks on a wide-range of issues. Excerpts:
19-yr-old Pakistani nabbed with N228m heroin at MMIA
LAGOS — A 19‑year‑old Pakistani, Iftikihar Muhammed Arslan, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, for attempting to smuggle 25 parcels of heroin into the country.
Kogi speaker’s 2 sons kidnapped
LOKOJA — Gunmen, yesterday, invaded the house of the Speaker of Kogi State House of Assembly, Mr. Momoh Lawal Jimoh, at Okengwe, in Okene Local Government Area of the state and kidnapped two of his children.
Behold the kid Centenarian:My artistry takes root from ICT
LAST week, drums rolled in celebration of a ‘centenarian’. The venue was Queensland Academy, a private school located around Okota Lagos.
24 hours After Abuja Blast: Gunmen abduct 100 school girls in Borno
—Less then 24 hours after the Boko Haram terrorists bombed the Nyanya bus terminus in Abuja, killing more than 100 innocent Nigerians, some unidentified gunmen suspected to be members of the terrorist organisation again abducted more than 100 female students from a Government Girls Secondary School, GGSS, in Borno State.
Abuja bomb blast: ‘We saw our brother burning’
ABUJA — Forty-eight hours after the bomb blast at Nyanya motor park, an outskirts of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, the whereabouts of a 20‑year-old recharge card seller at the park, Isa Nuhu, is yet to be known despite the fact that one of the family members saw his body burning at the scene of the incident.
