News From Nigeria

A Borno-based pastor, Kallamu Dikwa, on Tuesday threatened to sue the State Security Service for alleged violation of his fundamental human rights. The clergy lamented that his ordeal at the hands of the SSS began earlier this year when he ...

Urhobo militant bunch, Urhobo Gbagbako, on Wednesday asserted responsibility regarding two blasts that happened at two major gas trunklines in Delta State. The storage compartment lines belong to the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), situated on the boundaries of Afiesere ...

I am alarmed at the gale of defections from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress, so soon after the elections. No sooner had the results been declared, than the political “hejira” began. Elsewhere, losers of elections always ...

The University of Lagos convocation ended on Thursday with President Goodluck Jonathan and his minister of Education, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, snubbing the three-day occasion. The college likewise presented emeriti professorship on three resigned lecturers of the establishment. The beneficiaries are ...

President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday picked holes in the aftereffects of the March 28 presidential race, saying “the Peoples Democratic Party couldn’t have got those sorts of scores” it had in a few spots. Jonathan, who talked not long after ...

Michael Igbinedion, younger brother of former Edo state governor, Lucky Igbinedion was today sentenced to 6 years imprisonment for charges bothering on money laundering. Michael, alongside one Mr Patrick Eboigbodin, an aide to former Governor Lucky Igbinedion were dragged before ...

The choice of the Adamawa state senator, Bala Ngilari to purchase two Lexus SUVs for N180million, about $900,000 and two Hilux get vans at N400million have activated shock from members from the state House of Assembly. On Wednesday, the members ...

President Zuma has signed a bill that is by all accounts the best step in history of attempting to battle HIV/AIDS.From now on every individual who gets tested and discovered to be HIV positive would not simply get counselling and ...

The Nollywood on-screen character yesterday imparted new photographs of herself on Instagram with this inspiring message:”Hate no one, no matter how they ve wronged you. Stay humble u might go out of fashion. Think positively no matter how hard life ...

Nigerian Lesley Nneka Arimah (above left) is champ of the 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize (African region) for her short story ‘Light’. Congratulations to her.