President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, says elements of Boko Haram insurgents surrendering to the Nigerian troops should be encouraged, as it’s a welcome development. Lawan said this when he visited the Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Abubakar Ibn Garbai, to condole him over his elder brother’s death in Maiduguri. Mr Ola Awoniyi, his Special Adviser […]

The Chairman of Gwoza Local Government Area, Borno State, Prof. Ibrahim Bukar, has announced that about 35 people have died with 150 others hospitalised following the outbreak of diarrhoea accompanied by vomiting.

Mr Peter Aboki, the Deputy Provost, College of Agriculture, Science and Technology, Lafia, Nasarawa State, has dragged a former commissioner for Agriculture and Water Resources, Mr Alanana Otaki, to an Upper Area Court, Lafia, for snatching his wife.The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) also reports that the embattled wife, Mrs Felicia Aboki, had also filed […]

Soldiers, on Monday, killed three suspected hoodlums terrorising communities in Ngor-Okpala Local Government Area of Imo State, who were enforcing the sit-at-home directive the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, said it had suspended.

NDLEA Chairman retired Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa, said on Monday in Kano that the state has about two million drug addicts, representing 16 per cent prevalence. Marwa made the disclosure when he paid a courtesy visit to Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje. “In Kano State, drug abuse prevalence is 16 per cent; that is, in every six persons, […]