A CONVENTION THAT NEVER HELD ELECTIONS : Ex-Edo Governor, Oyegun, emerges new...
Ex-Edo Governor, John Odigie OyegunA former Governor of Edo state, John Oyegun, has emerged the new Chairman of the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC. The emergence of Mr. Oyegun, who will now...
View ArticleA SEASON OF POLITICS WITH BITTERNESS : Soldiers ambush Gov Amaechi, threaten...
Prevent him from entering EkitiThe travails of Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Amaechi has continued, as soldiers ambushed him in Ondo State, on his way to Ado Ekiti to attend the final rally of...
View ArticleGIVING A MILE TO TAKE A YARD ... WHERE STEALING IS NOT CORRUPTION : Real...
World Bank to assist in monitoring utilisation on targeted projects, programmes President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday constituted an inter-ministerial committee to manage the €167 million (about N36...
View ArticleDENIED AT HOME, HELP COMES THE WAY OF OUR ABDUCTED GIRLS FROM ABROAD : Japan...
Attesting to its commitment to assist Nigeria with its insecurity crisis, Japan has stated that it will extend an Emergency Grant Aid of $ 855,000 (equivalent of JPY 83 million) for the main purpose of...
View ArticleWEDDING BELLS ... PHOTONEWS : Photos from Zaaki Azzay’s traditional wedding...
Zaaki Azzay is married again. The Nigerian musician and his new wife, 24-year-old Hembadoon Ugema held a traditional wedding ceremony late May, 2014, in bride’s hometown, Ushongo, Makurdi, Benue state....
View ArticleGAINING GROUNDS IN OUR WAR AGAINST TERROR AND TERRORISTS : Nigerian Army...
A notorious terrorist who has led serial attacks on security personnel, Mallam Husaini has died in an encounter between his group and a military convoy along Jos – Bauchi highway. Husaini who leads a...
View ArticleONE LAST WORD ON THAT COMMITTEE REPORT ON THE ABDUCTED CHIBOK SCHOOL GIRLS :...
The presidential fact-finding committee on the abduction of the schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno State yesterday submitted its report to President Goodluck Jonathan with an advice that the findings be kept...
View ArticleCAN A HUMAN BEIGN BE THIS INHUMAN? : How spiritualist killed retired customs...
THE police in Lagos and Ogun States, on Friday night, discovered the bodies of a 64-year-old retired customs officer, Angela Uzo, and her adopted daughter, Obiagulum at a shallow grave in a building at...
View ArticleMIND BOGGLING ... IS THIS HOW WE WILL CONTINUE TO TOLERATE THESE LOOTERS? :...
PREMIUM TIMES has obtained a record of alleged massive withdrawals by officials of the Adamawa State Government on which basis the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said it froze some key...
View ArticleAN UNCOMMON HEROISM FROM ONE OF OUR OWN : “My son died a hero”: Nigerian boy,...
A 13-year-old Nigerian boy, Ricky Osagie, died on Saturday after trying to save two girls who were drowning in a lake. Although the two girls are in stable condition, Ricky died at Temple Street...
View ArticleNOW THAT A SUSPECT IS IN CUSTODY : Police arrest suspected Kano bomber ......
Nigeria security forces have arrested a suspect in connection with the bomb blast that happened this afternoon at the School of Hygiene, BUK Road in Kano at least eight people lost their lives with 12...
View ArticleUNRAVELLING THE FACE BEHIND THE KANO BOMB ATTACK : Kano School Of Hygiene...
A suicide bomber yesterday disguised as a fresh student of the Kano School of Hygiene, along Sabuwar-Kofa, Kano State, had attempted to blow up the school. The bomber, according to eye-witnesses, drove...
View ArticleRADICAL ISLAM BOWS TO INTERNATIONAL OUTCRY : Sudan death row's Meriam Ibrahim...
Meriam Ibrahim, 27, with Martin, her 18-month-old son, holds her newborn baby girl she gave birth to in a Sudan jail. Photograph: Uncredited/AP A Christian woman on death row in a Sudanese prison has...
View ArticleUNDOING DONE DEALS .. WHO PAYS THE PRICE? : Airport Rehabilitation: Minister...
supervising Minister of Aviation, Dr. Samuel Ortom Justifies N174bn debt on airport projects Chinedu Eze and Martha Momoh The supervising Minister of Aviation, Dr. Samuel Ortom, yesterday ordered the...
View ArticleCAN A HUMAN BEIGN BE THIS INHUMAN 2? : Female Custom Officer Buried Alive...
EmotionS ran high, yesterday, following the startling confession ofA 64-year‑old herbalist has confessed that he buried a 68-year‑old retired Customs officer and her 10-year‑old adopted daughter alive...
View ArticleDANGERS OF CATCHING A MAN CALLED KINGDOM IN THE ACT : INFIDELITY: Adulterous...
A four month pregnant housewife, identified as Njideka, from Okigwe local government area of Imo State, narrowly escaped death from her husband, Kingdom Ike, when he allegedly ran her over with his...
View ArticleWHEN A STRONG MILITARY IS A COMPLEMENT AND NOT A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY ......
Defence Hqs Presidential c’ttee indicts military over Chibok kidnappingRoland Ogbonnaya 
The story of Nigeria’s military is a microcosm of the country: One that started on an enviable slate but has...
View ArticleTODAY'S ABUJA BOMB BLAST ... AN EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT : “I’ve neva seen so much...
An eyewitness who was at the scene of the bomb blast which, according to the police, has killed twenty one people and injured seventeen others today has given an account of the deadly incident via the...
View ArticleCHANGING TIMES AND PERCEPTIONS : Jonathan cuts short Equatorial Guinea trip,...
President Goodluck Jonathan has immediately suspended his plan to attend an African Union, A.U., summit in Equatorial Guinea, and will return to Nigeria Thursday after a car bomb killed at least 21...
View ArticleRESPITE FOR A NATION UNDER SIEGE : Update: Adamawa explosion “just roadside...
The Adamawa police on Tuesday said the explosion that occurred at the Kasuwan Kuturu market in Mubi area of Adamawa State was just a roadside bombing. The Adamawa State Public Relations Officer, Othman...
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