No fewer than 65 shops were destroyed by fire in the furniture section of Sabon Gari Market in Kano on Thursday night, an official said.

AS criticisms continue to trail the ongoing bill by the Senate to censor social media in the country, author and former Special Assistant on New Media to President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has urged the Nigerian Senate to do away with the bill, stressing that freedom of information is a necessity in any democracy.

Ever heard of the Chinese World War 11 comfort women? Well, comfort women were a group of Chinese women in the occupied territories, forced into sexual slavery by Japanese soldiers during World War 11, just for the singular purpose of providing emotional support for soldiers.

FINALLY, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has reduced the N1.04 trillion fine it imposed on MTN Nigeria to N674 billion.

Bendossou Celestine, a 57 year old man from Benin Republic who was alleged to be a notorious cross-border armed robber has been arrested by the Oyo State Police Command after several robbery attacks. Before his arrest, he and other members of his gang had thought they were invincible. To him and members of his gang, the proverb which says all days are the thief but one day is for the owner was nothing but mere wishful thinking that would never come to play in their own case.

APPARENTLY miffed by the delay in the dispensation of justice and the corruption that it breeds, President Muhammadu Buhari recently made a case for far-reaching reforms in the country’s judicial system. Such reforms must include the reviews of laws, institutions, processes and procedures that hamper the speedy delivery of justice.

BIAFRA is real, and those who wave it away do so to the exposure of their wrong assessment of the situation, and to some extent their ignorance, self-deceit, and or self-denial.

Senate President Dr. Bukola Saraki has promoted his Special Adviser on intra-parliamentary affairs, Hon. Moshood Mustapha.

BY JIMITOTA ONOYUME PORT HARCOURT – Heavy traffic gridlock on Aba road in Port Harcourt as members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP embark on what it dubbed Peace procession. Chairman of the party in the state, Mr Felix Obuah had in a press statement signed by his media aide, Mr Jerry Needam on Thursday […]

BY JOHN MKOM, JALINGO. The gate of Government House Jalingo has been temporally closed by FC Taraba players, who came out very early this morning Friday in protest, demanding payment of 12 months salaries from the state government. The players were seen carrying placards “We are dying, give us our 12 months salaries” Government House […]

By Kingsley Fanwo Ahead of tomorrow’s supplementary poll in some polling units in Kogi State, unknown arsonists have torched the Dekina Local Government Office of the Independent National Electoral Commission. Security operatives are looking for clues to why the office was razed and the people responsible for the arson. While many people believe it was […]

IT could best be described as a royal rumble. The two royal gladiators are from the same Osupa ruling house in the Akure Chieftaincy stool. Observers of happenings in Akure, the Ondo state capital as regards the stool of the paramount traditional ruler of the ancient town ( Deji of Akureland) would agree that it’s an understatement to say that the junt through the metropolis recently by the deposed and banished Oba, Prince Adepoju Adesina barely five years after his banishment by the state government caused anxiety and sent cold jitters down the spines of indigenes and non- indigenes of the ancient town.

According to Abolanle Ambode who made the call at the GEW Enterprise Women’s Day series, a capacity building seminar and initiative of the Joan Agha Foundation (JAF), “all over the world women are home builders women are driving the world and changing economies of most countries.

An Ado-Ekiti High Court, yesterday, sentenced one David Olugboyega to death by hanging for armed robbery involving N14,570.
Justice John Adeyeye passed the judgment following the confessional statement of the convict and the conclusion of trial by the prosecution.

Acting Executive Secretary of Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), Dr Orji Ogbonnaya Orji, has disclosed that 42 oil and gas companies operating in the country paid a total of $293 billion to the Federal Government between 2006 and 2012.