Soyinka blasts Obasanjo, says he’s a compulsive liar
Delta Speaker seeks prayers for 2015 elections, Xmas
3, 000 APC Members defect to PDP in Lagos
We have deployed adequate personnel to public places, highways nationwide, says I-G
My parents volunteered me, says 14-year-old Kano suicide bomber
Your business doesn’t grow until you reinvest in it — Bolanle Adewole, Director, TLP
This is your last Christmas in bondage, APC tells Nigerians
PDP want victims of insurgency remembered at Christmas
Christmas: Lagos CP directs water tight security
Police confirm arrest of female suicide bomber in Kano
Ivory smuggling ‘kingpin’ charged in Kenya
Funke Akindele survives cruel fate in Sababi
Suicide bomber rams into military check point
Amaechi preaches peace, love at Christmas
Buhari dealt effectively with Maitasine – Okorocha
Oshiomhole: Why PDP must go in 2015

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Borno and Yobe impose travel bans through Christmas
Two northeast Nigeria states have put heavy restrictions on vehicle movement beginning on Christmas Eve and lasting through the weekend following fears of Boko Haram attacks.
Jonathan’s Chrismas message to Nigerians
I greet and felicitate with you all once again as we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.
I join all of our Christian compatriots in giving thanks to God Almighty for the divine gift of Jesus Christ the Messiah whose earthly incarnation we commemorate.
Police parades 13-year-old suicide bomber in Kano
The Department of State Services and the Nigerian Police Wednesday afternoon paraded a 13 years old female suicide bomber arrested in the wake of attack on Kano textile market.
2015: APC picks running mate for Tambuwal
The Sokoto State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has picked the state Commissioner for Health, Alhaji Ahmed Aliyu, as the running mate to its gubernatorial candidate, Alhaji Aminu
2015: Buhari rakes in over N54m through crowd funding project
Buhari Support Organisation, BSO, the umbrella body of all support groups for the Presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, in 2015 election, General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) has realised N54,415,386.70 through a crowd funding project launched by Buhari on November 19, 2014 in Abuja.
2 arrested with human skull; 4 robberry suspects die in auto crash
Police detectives have arrested two suspected ritualists with a human skull on the Ibillo-Isua Expressway in Akoko South-East Local Government Area of Ondo State.
FG records N46bn deficit in third quarter
The Federal Government recorded a deficit of N46.40 billion in its fiscal operations for the third quarter of 2014, compared to a N122.41 billion deficit recorded in the second quarter of 2014.
Pray for 2015 elections, Orji urges Nigerians
Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State has called on the people of the state and Nigerians to pray for the success of 2015 elections, even as he thanked them for the support given his government.
Mutiny: SERAP asks UN rights experts to halt execution of 54 soldiers
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked a group of five United Nations human rights independent experts to individually and jointly use their “good offices and positions to urgently request the Nigerian government and its military authorities not to carry out the mass death sentences imposed on 54 Nigerian soldiers for what the government claimed […]
Keshi divides NFF
Officials of the Nigeria Football Federation are at loggerheads on whether out of contract Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi deserves a new contract, with a majority still seriously opposed to this.
Group vows to campaign nationwide for Buhari’s election
A pressure group, House-to-House Educational Initiative, has vowed to campaign vigorously for the election of Presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, General Muhammadu Buhari and his running mate, Professor Yemi Osinbajo ahead of the next general election across the 36 states of the Federation, the FCT and the 774 Local government areas in 2015.
Baby falls off mum’s back on Okada, crushed by truck
A heavy duty truck, conveying crates of soft drinks, yesterday, at the Okorodafe Roundabout in Ughelli, Delta State, crushed a four-month-old baby girl, who had fallen off the back of her mother travelling on a commercial motorcycle, popularly known as Okada.
CHRISTMAS: Nigerians groan under pains of dwindling economy
‘’Before I traveled to India to buy goods, people were complaining about poor sales. We thought that things would get better during the Christmas season but the situation has remained the same. I have so many unsold goods now in my warehouse. Even those I supplied goods to, have not been able to clear their debts,’’ he lamented.
100 more soldiers for court-martial
About 100 more soldiers are to be court-martialled by the Nigerian military for a number of offences relating to the on-going fight against Boko Haram terrorists.
An online journal, Premium Times reported that its sources disclosed that 118 soldiers have been transported from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, to face charges in Abuja, a week after 54 soldiers were sentenced to death for refusing to fight Boko Haram.
Women as suicide bombers
AT about 11 a.m., Monday, a bomb explosion went off at the popular Dukku Motor Park in Gombe State, killing scores of people at a park that was filled with passengers “who wanted to travel” for the Christmas and Boxing Day holidays. It was not the first time female bombers are taking the centre stage. All over the world, women are respected as custodians of the home, wives and mothers are becoming home wreckers. The “givers of life”, the “keepers of home and family” are now becoming the murderers.

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