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Armed bandits abduct 6 school girls, 2 teachers from Kaduna school

Six school girls and two teachers were on Thursday, abducted from Engravers College, Chikun LGA, Kaduna State, by unknown armed bandits. Confirming the...

Nigeria set to reintroduce toll gates

  The Federal Government is on the verge of reintroducing toll plazas on roads across the country. The tolls were scrapped in 2004...

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Oct 1: The Journey So Far  by Reuben Abati

    Today marks the 59thanniversary of Nigeria’s independence from British colonial rule. On Saturday, October 1, 1960, Nigerians gathered at the Race...

Treason charge: Sowore says Nigeria a lawless country

By Kunle Akinsola Omoyele Sowore, the detained publisher of Sahara Reporters, has described Nigeria as a lawless country. Sowore was arraigned at a...

Kidnapped 76-Year-Old Siasia’s Mother, Ogere, Regains Freedom After 90 Days

  After about three months of her kidnap, the septuagenarian mother of former Nigerian coach and ex-international, Samson Siasia, has been released. Madam...

Hubby sets wife ablaze in petrol fire in Ondo over land

Incensed by his wife’s alleged dishonesty over a plot of land she sold, Ojo Daniyan, murdered her by burning her in a petrol...

DSS to Falana: Sowore Can’t Go Home Now, We Have Not Received Court Order

  By Kunle Akinsola In spite of Federal High Court order, the Department of State Services (DSS) has yet to release the publisher...

Don’t negotiate with fraudulent P&ID – Magu

  Barely 24 hours after President Muhammadu Buhari told Process and Industrial Development (P&ID), the Irish engineering firm that recently won a $9.6...

Fossil fuels are here to stay, says Kyari

The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari, says fossil fuel is here to stay as the world’s...

Buhari’s UN Visit Draws Protesters, Supporters to New-York

  As Sowore’s wife join protest   Dozens of demonstrators gathered in front of the Nigerian Consulate in New-York on Tuesday to send...

We will not allow Nigeria slide into anarchy, lawless state, says Chief Justice Muhammad

By Kunle Akinsola Few months after his confirmation as the Chief Justice of the Federation, Justice Tanko Muhammad, seems to have asserted himself,...

Sowore’s release a victory for the rule of law, human rights- SERAP

  The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has welcomed decision by Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, ordering the...

Nigeria walking tightrope of peace and security, says Abdulsalami

By Kunle Akinsola   Worried by the current developments in the country, a former Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, has raised the...

Missing Nigerian Female Naval Officer Murdered, Dumped In Well in Kaduna

By Kunle Akinsola   The body of a Naval Officer, Commander Oluwayemisi Ogundana, who was declared missing and serving in Jaji in Kaduna...

Internet fraud: EFCC nabs 25 undergraduates in Oyo

  By Kunle Akinsola   No fewer than 25 students of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso in Oyo State, are being...

FG, Labour talks on minimum wage end in deadlock as threat of strike rises

The Federal Government and the labour unions on Monday failed to reach an agreement on consequential adjustment on the N30,000 minimum wage. The...