Woman, 35, burns housemaid’s buttock with hot iron
ENUGU—The Enugu State Police command,yesterday, arrested a 35-year-old,Nneka Ifeoze, who allegedly burnt her nine years old housemaid’s buttock with a hot electric iron for eating the food meant for her two years old baby boy.
Tension as herdsmen plot invasion of Enugu community
Confusion has enveloped Ukpabi Nimbo community in Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area, Enugu State, following an alleged attempt by Fulani herdsmen to invade the community and displace residents for cattle-grazing.
10,000 IDPs break camps, return home with police protection —AIG Ogunsakin
ABUJA — Following the takeover of liberated and recaptured territories from the Nigerian military by the Police, as directed by President Muhammadu Buhari, security authorities told Vanguard, weekend, that more than 10, 000 Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, located in seven IDPs camps, in Damaturu, Yobe State, have broken out of camps and returned to their villages under Police protection.
Illegal appointment: CSO coalition wants 13 VCs to resign
A coalition of some civil society organisations has advised the 13 Vice Chancellors of federal universities in the country who were wrongly appointed by the Federal Government last February to take the path of honour by resigning their appointments.
No way out of budget crisis, as deadline expires
ABUJA— Pressures by the Presidency on the National Assembly to rewrite the 2016 budget and include critical projects left out in the appropriation bill as passed were at the weekend slipping into another crisis with the threat of the legislators to veto
Alleged N10m bribe: Saraki queries EFCC’s powers to clear CCT chairman
ABUJA — The embattled Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has queried the powers of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to exculpate the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, Justice Danladi Umar, from prosecution, following his alleged complicity in N10 million bribery sca
IPOB leadership tussle worries MASSOB
Leadership of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, says it is no longer comfortable with what they called “the level of internal crisis rocking the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.”
DPR sanctions 16 fuel dealers over sharp practices in Bayelsa
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) in Bayelsa has sanctioned 16 filling stations in the state for engaging in various sharp practices.
Edo 2016: Ex-PDP govt officials adopt Ize-Iyamu
The governorship ambition of former Secretary to Edo State Government, SSG, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, weekend, received a boost following his adoption for the governorship race by past political office holders from Edo North senatorial district.
Bear with me, change will come — Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari last night appealed to Nigerians to bear with him over the difficulties in the land, saying Nigerians were seeing the darkest days before dawn.
First half economic outlook appears hazy despite oil price rebound – Analysts
Amidst dramatic positive turn in oil prices in the international market some economy analysts have indicated that a positive rub-off on Nigerian economy would not come in the short term.
