Alhaji Umar Farouk, the Emir of Daura, has offered an explanation on why Yusuf, son of President Muhammadu Buhari was given a title recently. Yusuf will be turbaned as Talban Daura on Saturday December 18, making him the District Head of Kwasarawa. The Emir who spoke at the turbaning ceremony of four new village heads…
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has been called out by Northern youths. A political organisation under the aegis of North-East Youth Initiative for Development said the Federal Government should go after the sponsors of the several killings in Nigeria and stop pointing accusing fingers at the youths. While advising the government to engage the youths in…
Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Bode George has said direct primaries will give power to the people. He therefore called on President Muhammadu Buhari to assent the Electoral Act bill (amended). He spoke on Thursday saying direct primaries will remove power from the back-room leaders and hand true power…
Bandits have again killed a businessman, Alhaji Habibu, and kidnapped three of his children at Sayen Lenu in Dutsen Abba, Zaria Local Government Area of Kaduna state. Sayen lemu is a village close to Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic, Zaria. It was gathered that the bandits stormed his house at about 11 pm on Wednesday, December 15,…
UK’s worst necrophiliac double murderer, David Fuller will be dying in jail after being handed two life sentences. The morgue monster reportedly assaulted and strangled Wendy Knell, 25, and Caroline Pierce 20, to death before sexually assaulting them in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, in 1987. This became one of the UK’s longest unsolved double murder cases before Fuller’s arrest. 67-year-old Evil…
A man who is yet to be identified has been electrocuted in the Labour Quarters area of Gombe State. Eyewitnesses told our correspondent that the man arrived around 3 am on Thursday with a suspected gang member who dropped him off at the point of his death before proceeding to another destination. According to Zakari…
In what will come across as a really heartbreaking development, a fire outbreak has reportedly engulfed some parts of the popular Balogun Market in Lagos Island destroying valuables worth millions of naira. Some of the traders who arrived at their shops on Thursday morning with the hope of a promising day in anticipation of the…
Self-acclaimed investigative journalist, Kemi Olunloyo has said she will be suing the family of late Sylvester Oromoni for damages. This comes after human rights lawyer Femi Falana who is representing the Oromini family asked the Nigerian Police to invite Olunloyo for questioning over her statement where she had insisted that 12-year-old Sylvester Oromoni had consented…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has denied claims by the federal government that it received N52.12 billion as part of the cumulatively earned allowance owed to the union. Addressing the press in Kano, the State Zonal Coordinator of the union, Professor Abdulkadir Muhammad, said only N22.17 billion was released as Earned Academic Allowance…
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture, has stated that by next year, no President will say there won’t be banditry. According to him, saying there won’t be banditry is like saying there won’t be criminal elements in the country. Lai Mohammed said this while responding to a question on whether the current…