Insecurity: Internally displaced persons figure hits 800,000
The total number of internally displaced persons, IDPs in Nigeria arising from insurgency and communal clashes has risen to 800,000, National Emergency management Agency, NEMA has said.
Director of Planning,Research and Forecasting in NEMA, Zanna Muhammed, confirmed this at a one day stakeholders workshop on response to emergencies
Gowon Estate CDA shuts shop over tearing of INEC’s displayed voters’ list
Gowon Estate Community Development Association (CDA) in Lagos on Tuesday shut a shop for two weeks over the owner’s alleged tearing of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Voters registration lists.
13 gov aspirants sign undertaking in Kwara
Thirteen governorship aspirants on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara said they had agreed to abide by the outcome of Saturday’s governorship primary in the state.
Court declines to reinstate Tukur as PDP Chairman
The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, Tuesday, declined to reinstate Alhaji Bamanga Tukur as the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP
Doctor’s bomb joke costs him $90,000 fine
A doctor thought it might be funny to crack a joke about a bomb in his luggage. Instead, he partly forced the evacuation of Miami International airport, and earned an almost $90,000 fine.
Tycoon throws mass wedding for fatherless women
An Indian diamond trader has thrown a mass wedding ceremony for 111 fatherless women and given each one gifts worth thousands of dollars, saying giving a bride away was “sacred”.
