Former Vice President of Nigeria and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate for the 2019 election Atiku Abubakar has said that under the current President Muhammadu Buhari’s government Nigeria has become the world headquarters of ‘extreme poverty’

WHEN former President Goodluck Jonathan said Nigeria was rich because of the number of private jets owned by Nigerians, the political class was silent because many of our leaders, irrespective of party, are quite comfortable with the status quo whereby wealth is owned only by a tiny percentage of the population based on no business acumen or production of goods and services but government proximity and patronage alone.

 Some residents of Iseyin council area of Oyo State have criticised governments of Oyo and Osun over the increment in the tuition fees of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology.

A court in the northern Indian state of Haryana on Wednesday sentenced a 57-years-old godman and his 13 devotees to life in jail over the murder of a woman in 2014.

The Kano state Police Command has warned the National Union of Nigerian Students (NUNS) to desist from its plan of staging a protest march on the 29th of October to call on the Kano state Governor Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje to resign to allow for complete investigation into the allegation of receiving bribe from contractors labeled against him in some video clips released by an online news publisher Jafar Jafar, or face the wrath of the Command.