David Umaru: Between Timbuktu and Agadez
In the run up for the 2015 General Elections, some patriotic people of Niger state raised the alarm about the background of the then All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, David Umaru. Persons who claimed to know him placed his nationality as Mali, somewhere between Timbuktu and Agadez. A Tuareg ancestry was part of the story.
False shutdown rumor fuels #SaveTwitter frenzy
Tweets regarding Twitter’s pending demise are greatly exaggerated.
Dokpesi to PDP: Reform or perish
Promoter of Daar Communications and frontrunner for Peoples Democratic Party Chairmanship race, High Chief Raymond Dokpesi, has said that he is in the contest to revive the dying vision of its founding fathers and reposition it as a veritable opposition party in Nigeria.
Budget Padding: Why I cannot be interrogated, tried—Dogara
ABUJA-Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, on Thursday, gave reasons why he failed to surrender himself to be interrogated by the Police Special Investigating Panel over alleged padding of the 2016 budget.
Man arraigned for beating up lover
A 39-year-old man, Ikechukwu Jerry, was on Thursday arraigned at an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly beating his lover.
Netherlands earmarks €5.3m for IDPs in Nigeria
Coordinator of the Nigerian Joint Response, a humanitarian program in the North-East Nigeria, Hanna Van Schie, has disclosed that government of the Netherlands has earmarked the sum 5.3 milliojn Euros to carter for the need of 176000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the North –East.
