May 4, 2014 (NAN) Nine persons have lost their lives on Saturday night when a petroleum tanker and a Peugeot 406 car collided at Hausari village, on Sokoto-Tambuwal road in Sokoto State.

My worst fears have been confirmed and sadly the Haramites of Boko have struck again. Another terrible bomb blast has taken place in Abuja and many innocent people have been butchered, slaughtered and maimed.

Aviation unions on Sunday in Lagos said they would be going on a two-day national warning strike over the recent merger plan by the Federal Government of some agencies in the industry.

BY CALEB AYANSINA ABUJA – CHRISTIAN Association of Nigeria, CAN, Sunday, released the names of the abducted female students in Chibok by the Book Haram Sect. The National Christian Body, consequently, demanded N50m as damages as well as overseas scholarship, for each girl from the federal government. A Statement signed by the President/Founder of Old […]

The Director-General of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Ms Arunma Oteh, says Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are essential to the development of the Niger Delta region.

Mr Peter Chieshe, a governorship aspirant on the platform the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Benue, has suggested more international assistance in the fight against insurgency in the country.

Mr James Buchan, the General Manager (Operations) of Cross River Water Board, said more than N300 million owed it by various consumers in the state posed a challenge to its operations.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as cowardly and incomprehensible Thursday’s repeated bombing at Nyanya in Abuja, saying nothing in the world can justify the mindless, senseless and barbaric killing of innocent people by a group of demented people masquerading as ideologues

Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State has been giving a marching order that abducted girls must be found. President Goodluck Jonathan gave this mandate to the governor during an all night meeting that ended in the early hours of Sunday.

US Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday vowed that Washington will do “everything possible” to help Nigeria deal with Boko Haram militants, following the kidnapping of scores of schoolgirls.

Troops deployed Saturday to Nigeria’s main airports in a security clampdown ahead of a major international economic conference next week in Abuja after two bomb blasts left scores dead in the capital.

Desperate parents of the more than 200 abducted schoolgirls in Nigeria called on Saturday for authorities there to bring in foreign help to secure their release.

The FCT Minister, Sen. Bala Mohammed, has appealed to relatives of the 20 persons who died in the May 1 Nyanya bomb blast to come forward to claim the corpses.

ONE after another, four men entered a water well and drowned while trying to retrieve a bucket when the string cut letting the bucket to sink to the bottom of the well.

The incident, which happened along Ogoja Road, Ikom in the Central Senatorial District of Cross River State, attracted sympathisers some of them attributing the tragedy to a spiritual force.

Four days after the bomb blast that rocked the Abuja suburb of Nyanya, the second within a fortnight, terrified residents have opted to keep off public places.