8 policemen arrested for shooting teenager during Anambra festival
The Police in Anambra State have detained eight mobile policemen serving at Ogidi in Idemili North Local Government Area of the state for allegedly shooting a 17-year-old boy, Arinze Obigbo, in the abdomen during the Mgbe-Agbogho festival of Ogidi, weekend.
Nigeria’s problems started with Awo’s introduction of tribal politics — Unongo
Awolowo felt, as the strongman of the Yoruba, Azikiwe should not have won the election in his place, and he could not countenance an Igbo man coming to be the premier or the first minister or prime minister of a predominantly Yoruba place. Night came, and when day broke, Zik discovered his majority had collapsed
House on the Rock fire: Nigerian fire-fighters came with Electricity companies’s ladder, no water – Rev. Asigime
Rev. Kennedy Asigime, a cleric in the N3 billion House on the Rock Church in Abuja, which was gutted by fire on Sunday said that the Nigerian fire-fighters came with “the same ladder used by Electric Distribution Companies,”and with no water.
Continued trial of Saraki’ll dim APC’s chances in 2019 — Kwara APC
The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kwara State has warned that the appeal filed by the Federal Government against the judgment of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, that discharged and acquitted President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, would dim the chances of the ruling party in 2019 general elections.
NAPTIP arrests 40-yr-old woman in Edo over human trafficking
A 40-year-old woman, Mrs Halimatu Omoruyi Osifo, has been arrested by the Benin Zonal Command of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, over allegations of human trafficking.
Eid-el-Fitr: Gov. Ajimobi seeks spiritual rebirth
In Oyo, Governor Abiola Ajimobi, called for sustained prayers for Nigeria’s unity as Muslims join their counterparts across the world to celebrate Eid-el-Fitr.
