A Karmo Grade 1 Area Court in Abuja on Tuesday sentenced a 22-year-old man, Felix Okon, to five months imprisonment for threatening to kill his neigbhour.

MINISTER of State, Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire has charged members of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, to ensure better working relationship with other health associations within the sector.

Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto State has urged Nigerians to reject what he Tuesday described as “prison-yard democracy, typified by the ignoble meddlesomeness, rascality and high-handedness of some security agencies against democratic institutions” in Nigeria in recent times.

The UN said it received 70 new allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse across all its entities and implementing partners, between the beginning of April to the end of June 2018.

The Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) said it had waded into the crisis in the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Cross River which split the party into factions in the state.

Police in northern India on Tuesday said that a major manhunt was underway for eight men accused of having sex with a pregnant goat that later died. They took turns to sexually attack the goat. 

The new Speaker of the Kano State House of Assembly and former deputy Speaker, Hon. Kabiru Alhassan Rurum from Rano local government area has paid homage to the Kano state governor Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje Monday afternoon.

GOVERNOR Umaru Tanko Al-Makura of Nasarawa state has submitted a bill to make for the provision a law for the establishment of Nasarawa State Agency for Youth Empowerment Scheme(NAYES) in the state

The chief of Malaysia‘s civil aviation regulation, Azharuddin Abdul Rahmanon, stepped down on Tuesday after an official report found lapses in air traffic control when Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 disappeared.

That Nigeria is proclaimed the giant of Africa is trite. It is a slogan which has reigned for decades.  But in the last two decades, or more,  Nigeria, the pride of Africa has been  ludicrously derided and  despised  with various derogative sobriquets’, as “leaping, sleeping or  crawling  giant” of Africa.