National

Controversy Over ABU Student’s Suicide By Ibrahim Adeyemi

“She (Aisha’s mother) has always loved her daughter and she feels she’s old enough to know what she wants. Religion has nothing, I mean nothing, to do with this. Aishat’s mother had nothing to do with Aishat converting from this to that. The mom has no problem with Aisha being a Muslim. Her mother has […]

National

Operation Python Dance III raises concerns of a needlessly militarised Nigeria

The Army’s nationwide operation raises more questions than it provides answers despite Nigeria’s struggle with insecurity. There’s something that sounds immediately sinister about the Nigerian Army’s “Operation Python Dance” simply because of its code name. Of course, the Army always tries to downplay the first impression the name creates to ease tensions about its intentions, […]

Politics

Falana: The Last Man Standing By Dr. Enameguolo Orugbo

Mr. Femi Falana, your selfless efforts towards defending the weak and contributing to topical issues, are not in vain. As the world celebrates a New Year, ushering 2019, Nigerians at home and abroad celebrate you. Boys are those that run to people, men are those that people run to…Tonia Tortor The time is ripe for […]

Politics

PDP mocks Buhari’s New Year speech

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has mocked President Buhari’s New Year speech. According to Daily Post, the party described the President’s New Year speech as empty, adding that it lacks ideas. PDP’s spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement, said that the President’s posture during his speech shows that he has conceded defeat. PDP also called […]

National

Bandits Kill Soldiers In Zamfara, Casualty Figure Unknown

Suspected bandits have killed an unspecified number of soldiers at a forest in Doburu in the Zurmi Local Government Area of Zamfara State. An online news portal, The Cable, quoted a military source as disclosing this on Saturday, saying many of his colleagues sustained injuries in the incident. He said some of the injured persons […]

Politics

Saraki Didn’t Donate A Dime To Offa Robbery Victims, Says Lai Mohammed

“The claim by Dr. Saraki that he donated N10 million to care for the victims of the Offa robbery is patently false. He did not! The 10 million he referred to was donated when the Offa market got burnt, and it was made in Ilorin, not Offa. When Dr Saraki visited Offa to commiserate with […]

Economy Politics

State Governors say they cannot afford to pay minimum wage

The spokesman of the Governors’ Forum, said due to financial constraints and other limitations, many states could not afford it for now The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) said that the governors would have loved to pay workers N30,000 as national minimum wage but for the hard times. Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo, spokesman of the NGF, said this on Monday […]

National

Nigerian Airline Threatens To Withdraw From UK Over ‘Hostile’ Treatment Of Pilot

The company says it is now losing £180,000 a day, because they cannot find another pilot to fly the plane after Captain Adam Dilli Ibrahim, aged 36, returned home voluntarily on another flight. Captain Ibrahim was detained for questioning, fingerprinted and photographed, before being told he would be forcibly removed — even though pilots do […]

Politics

Buhari Temporarily ‘Reunites’ With Tambuwal

Buhari visited Sokoto on Sunday to pay a condolence visit to Shagari’s family. During the visit to Sokoto, Buhari and Tambuwal were pictured together engaged in a conversation. For the first time in a while after their political separation, President Muhammadu Buhari and Aminu Tambuwal, Governor of Sokoto State, were pictured together as they paid […]

Politics

Timi Franks says FG planning to arrest Atiku, others

Frank revealed that Senate President Bukola Saraki and the PDP chairman, Uche Secondus are also on the list of those to be arrested. A former spokesman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Timi Frank has alleged that the Federal Government is planning to arrest the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar. […]