By David Odama Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has been bestowed with award of ambassador of peace and justice by the youths in Umaisha Development Area of Toto Local Government, the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Ibrahim Balarabe Abdullahi Constituency. President of Umaisha Political Association, (UPCA), Comrade Ibrahim Yunusa Karika said at […]

By David Odama The Federal Government Special Works Programme  recently approved by the Buhari Administration designed  to empower young Nigerians  is  to be flagged off Tuesday next week in Nasarawa State. This is even as the stakeholders in the state  have  agreed  to support the federal and state governments in ensuring the successful implementation of […]

By Adesina Wahab University workers under the aegis of the Joint Action Committee, JAC, of the Non-Academic Staff Union, NASU and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, are to start a three-day national protest on Tuesday in protest against government’s handling of some issues, including the controversial Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, […]

A passenger plane with an estimated 62 people on board has gone missing shortly after take-off from the Indonesian capital Jakarta. The Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737 lost contact en route to Pontianak in West Kalimantan province, officials said. Flight tracking website Flightradar24.com said the aircraft had lost more than 3,000m (10,000ft) in altitude in less […]

By Temisan Amoye Chelsea boss Frank Lampard has slammed his critics, saying criticising is easy, and that he is ‘very confident’ in his abilities and his project at the London club. Chelsea are currently on a run of one win in their last six Premier League games, losing three games, including defeats to local rivals […]

Assistant Corps Marshal Rotimi Adeleye has listed non-installation of the speed-limiting devices, overloading and overspeeding as the most prevalent offences committed by motorists in Bauchi, Borno and Yobe states.

Six French soldiers were injured during an operation against Islamist militants in Mali in West Africa, French media reported on Saturday, citing the Defence Ministry. The attackers struck on Friday morning in the central region around Gourma, apparently driving a vehicle up to a military convoy before setting off an explosive. READ ALSO: America’s golden […]

  The Delta State government announced on Saturday that schools in the state would resume academic session on Jan. 18, a week’s delay in the Jan. 11 resumption date earlier announced. Mr Patrick Ukah, Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education said in a statement issued in Asaba, that no student or teacher would be allowed […]

La Liga leaders Atletico Madrid, have had their home fixture against Athletic Bilbao postponed due to Storm Filomena, which has left the Spanish capital, Madrid covered in snow. The match scheduled for Saturday afternoon will now be played at a yet to be fixed date Atletico in a statement revealed that Athletic Bilbao had been […]

A child in Switzerland survived after being driven over twice by a car, police reported on Saturday. A driver was moving his car to a different parking spot in the town of Oberentfelden on Friday evening when he ran over the 2-year-old boy on a small balance bike. READ ALSO: How man killed his colleague over N70,000 […]

By David Odama Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule has vowed to secure Local government councils from eminent collapse in the state. This is even as he inaugurated a high-powered committee to investigate all  local government councils in the state  due to their inability to pay  salaries  of workers in the face of the autonomy granted   […]

Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate, Saturday advised that the Western Nigeria Security Network, Amotekun, should be trained frequently to prevent them from turning into another special anti-robbery squad SARS. Soyinka disclosed this when he featured on Arise Television programme this morning. According to him: “Community policing like Amotekun is a recognition of the fact that the […]

By Chinedu Adonu A former commissioner in Imo State, Engr Chidi Ibeh has emerged factional President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo. Ibeh, a holder of national award, Member of the Federal Republic, MFR, emerged during a parallel election organized by the Prince Richard Ozobu-led election committee. Also elected were Dimm Uche Okwukwu, Deputy President General. Okwukwu […]

One of the aspirant to the Ohanaeze President General election, and former Imo state, chairman of Ohanaeze, Professsor Chidi Osuagwu, yesterday pulled out of the race for tomorrow’s (Sunday) Ohanaeze president election.

By Nwafor Sunday For over a week now, the Managing Director of First City Monument Bank, FCMB, Mr Adam Nuhu, has been accused of having extra-marital affairs with Moyo, widow of Tunde Thomas. Their relationship allegedly resulted to the birth of Moyo’s children. Report from an Online media not Vanguard, has it that Moyo revealed […]