Banditry: Sokoto Sen conducts scholarship screening test for students who lost Parents
By Musa Ubandawaki in Sokoto Sokoto SOkOTO: Senator Ibrahim Lamido( APC-Sokoto) Education Trust Fund on Saturday conducted screening test and interviews for scholarship award to indigenous students who lost Parents due to banditry for studies at Maryam Abacha University, Kano. The students who were orphans, were drawn from across 8 local government areas of Sokoto […]
Real Estate group hails Gov Mbah on land use regulation, executive order
The Managing Director of Powell Homes and Shelters Ltd, Architect Chibuikem Onyekachi, has lauded the Enugu State Governor for signing the Land Use Regulation 2025 and Executive Order No. 1, 2025, which designate several locations across the state as urban areas.
Lakurawa kills Immigration officers in Kebbi
Lakurawa armed group on Saturday, two immigration officers and one civilian were killed in Kangiwa Local Government Area of Kebbi
Police smash Uber drivers killer-gangs, arrest seven suspects in Lagos
By Evelyn Usman The Lagos State Police Command has dismantled robbery gangs targeting Uber drivers, arresting seven suspected members of separate gangs. One of the gangs, a four-man group, included a United States returnee who stabbed an Uber rider to death in an attempt to steal his Toyota Camry, on Thursday, January 9, 2025 The […]
A convenient memory – The Olukayode Ariwoola memoirs
n 22 August 2024, Olukayode Ariwoola, the penultimate Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) retired from the bench and transitioned into a published author.
Major shake-up in Army as new GOCs, PSOs, MNJTF Commander appointed
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Olufemi Oluyede has appointed new General Officers Commanding (GOCs), new Principal Staff Officers (PSOs), new Corps Commanders and a new Commander, Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) in a strategic move to enhance operational effectiveness and administrative efficiency.
FROM CREEK TO PALACE: How N-Delta ex-militants-turned-monarchs rule their kingdoms
• Ateke Tom, Dokubo-Asari in Rivers; Binidodogha in Edo •‘Kinsmen stop Torughedi, aka Young Shall Grow, in Bayelsa By Emma Amaize, Regional Editor, South-South BEFORE 2009, they were dreaded warlords in the creeks of the Niger Delta whose activities created fear, especially among the government and its security forces, eager to keep the oil installations risk-free for uninterrupted drilling […]
Two die in Lagos diesel reservoir accident
In a tragic incident on Saturday, two unidentified individuals lost their lives after falling into a diesel reservoir on Ikosi-Oregun Road, Lagos.
FOOD SECURITY: Insecurity, climate change are biggest threats to agriculture — Olawepo-Hashim
A former presidential candidate, Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, has said that insecurity and climate change constitute the biggest threats to agriculture in Nigeria. He also identified poor infrastructure and access to access as other limitations against agriculture.Olawepo-Hashim said this at the 27th annual convention and 26th annual lecture series of the Alumni Association of Federal University of […]
New study probes how physical forces, metabolism shape breast cancer progression
By Fidelis Onode A new biomedical investigation is offering fresh insight into one of cancer biology’s most persistent puzzles: how mechanical stress and metabolic conditions inside breast tumors work together to influence disease progression. Although cancer is often studied through genetic or biochemical lenses, researchers are increasingly discovering that the physical environment surrounding tumor cells […]
Ohanaeze: One group, two ‘Presidents’ as IPoB clarifies position
The controversy that characterised the buildup to the election of the leadership of Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, seems not to be over as the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPoB, has expressed support for Uche Okwukwu, who emerged in a factional election of the group.
