The National Emergency Management Agency NEMA has said only six persons died in Saturday’s church collapse in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state.

As the casualty figures from the bloody re-run Rivers State national and Legislative elections begin to emerge Sunday, security authorities have confirmed that a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP Alkali Mohammed) and his orderly were killed and beheaded during an ambush at Omoku.

The past week is unarguably one of the busiest and critical times in the life of the 8th Senate. It was a week the law making body significantly upped its game in its drive to achieve stated objectives contained in its Legislative Agenda, that is, to enact laws that would spur business growth, increase access to finance for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), attract investors and private sector funding for infrastructure and to reflate the nation’s ailing economy.

Barely 48 hours after a twin bomb blasts hit Madagali market, in Madagali Local government area of Adamawa State, leaving 56 dad and 177 injured, another twin blast Sunday hit Maiduguri, the Borno state capital.

Not long ago, the peaceful, self-subsistence farming community of Ndi Okereke Abam, Arochukwu LGA, Abia State, was attacked by the now notorious, AK-47 rifle wielding, bow and arrow bearing marauders masquerading as Hausa/Fulani herdsmen. By the time they were through with the unarmed, government abandoned community, seven persons, all from Ndi Okereke Abam, were down, fatally injured. They are still recuperating in hospitals in the area.

Outgoing U.S. President Barack Obama has disclosed that he ‘absolutely’ suffered racism in office, adding Americans’ ‘primary concern about me has been that I seem foreign’.

Benin-City – The major reason for communal crisis, particularly in the seven local  government areas of Edo South, is land. Youths, under the aegis of Community Development Associations (CDAs), allegedly took over the sale of land in most of the Bini communities and, in the process, scammed those who wanted to buy.

Commandant of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, (AFCSC) Jaji, Air Vice Marshal Suleiman Abubakar Dambo, has charged young military officers undergoing tactics grilling in military training institutions in the country to brace themselves for tougher tasks brought about by new and choking internal security challenges.

To many devout Christians, the idea of combining the practice of their faith with active partisan politics is so antithetical that the mere thought of it is seen as a sign that one has backslidden from pure Christianity.

President Buhari has commiserated with the governor of Akwa Ibom State, Udom Emmanuel and the people over the loss of lives caused by the collapse of a church in Uyo, the state capital on Saturday.

SUSPECTED Ijaw youths, weekend, shot and cut off the head of an Urhobo youth residing at Aladja, Udu Local Government Area, James Oghenekparabor Elvis, in revenge of penultimate Friday’s beheading of an Ogbe-Ijoh carpenter, Samson Bebebo.

*Say they’re not afraid of NFF’s ban threat By Ben Efe A week after pipping the Indomitable Lionesses of Cameroon to win the African Women Cup of Nations in Yaounde, Super Falcons players are still holed up in Abuja protesting the non payment of their allowances and they have vowed to remain there till Christmas. One […]

The Musical Society of Nigeria (MUSON) annual Christmas concert was held on Sunday December 4, at the Shell Nigeria Hall in MUSON Centre.

A Non-Governmental Organisation, Kids and Play over the weekend in Abuja demonstrated a rare commitment to grassroots sports development when it inaugurated a multimillion Naira sports facility at the Government Secondary School (GSS), Yangoji, Kwali Area Council of the FCT.

Nigerian talented teen saxophonist TJ Emore, better known as TJ Sax is out with a brand new song Amen, an original ditty about thanksgiving and trusting in God for blessings yet to come.