News From Nigeria

Today, troops on patrol in Maiduguri, Borno State, arrested 4 suspected vandals of critical national assets, while attempting to cart away heavy armoured cable belonging to Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN). They are: Aliyu Jubril, 24, who is an ...

The indegenes of Ugborodo, Warri-South LGA protesting the neglect, discrimination and nonrecognition of Ugborodo Interim Management Committee by Chevron, continued their occupation of the firm, yesterday, by holding a power-packed service at the front of its Tank Farm. Youth President ...

Jomo Gbomo, the spokesperson of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta, MEND, in a statement, today, said: “The attention of MEND has been drawn to the recent spate of hypocritical and provocative statements issued by the Indigenous People ...

Gafar Hamza, a 43-year-old night guard, was arrested by the Oyo State Police Command in June when a neighbour reported him after discovering that his 20-year-old daughter was pregnant and she claimed that her father was responsible for it.   ...

Justin Onuorah Abuah, Director of Information, State House, has passed on. Born on January 29, 1959, Abuah, died yesterday, Sunday, August 14, in Abuja after a brief illness, aged 57. . The late Abuah had a long and rich career ...

Zuberu Idris, the former Chief Security Officer to Pres. Buhari for 12 years and other bodyguards, who claimed that they lives on the line for him, have accused him of abandoning them immediately after he became president. In a press ...

Writer Ahmad Salkida, has responded to the Nigerian Army declaring wanted in the wake of discharging a video from Boko Haram a weekend ago only sent to him. In an announcement he discharged, Ahmad says he is as of now ...

Former Aston Villa striker Dalian Atkinson has died after being tasered by police in Telford, Shropshire. The 48-year-old died 90 minutes after he was hit by a stun gun on Monday morning August 15, at around 1.30am in the Trench ...

There’s an inner thing in every man, Do you know this thing my friend? It has withstood the blows of a million years, And will do so to the end.   It was born when time did not exist, And ...