Fulani Herdsmen: Abia Assembly Passes Resolution For Stop-And-Search Of...
With the rising apprehension over the mass killings by Fulani herdsmen, the Abia State House of Assembly on Thursday passed a resolution directing security agencies in the state to search for arms in...
View ArticleTension As Igbo Youth Give Fulani Herdsmen 3 Days Ultimatum To Vacate South East
Beginning from Saturday, April 30, 2016, the Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC) has given the Fulani Herdsmen till Monday, May 2, 2016 to vacate every part of Igbo land, or be forced out against their wish....
View Article‘For How Long Must Igbo People Continue To Suffer In The Hands Of Herdsmen?’
A group of women under the auspices of Igbo Women Assembly, IWA, have protested the proposed plans to reserve grazing lands or ranches for Fulani herdsmen in the South-East geopolitical zone. The women...
View ArticleMan Jailed For Beating Wife To Coma Over Refusal To Bear More Children
An Apapa Magistrate’s Court sitting in Lagos state on Friday remanded one James Obinna, a driver of commercial bus (better known as Danfo) in prison for allegedly beating his wife, Ebere to coma over...
View ArticleBad News: Global Credit Rating Agency, Moody’s, Downgrades Nigeria
Moody’s Investors Service, better known as Moody’s, has finally downgraded Nigeria’s long-term issuer ratings from Ba3 to B1. B1, B2 and B3 are judged to “have speculative elements and a significant...
View ArticleBuhari’s Economic Policies Are Archaic – Ezekwesili Takes Swipe At President
Oby Ezekwesili, former minister of education, says the economic policies of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government are “archaic”, comparing them to the ones he used as a military head of...
View ArticleMe And Niger Delta Avengers Have No Business – Tompolo Denies New Militancy...
Chief Government Ekpemukpolo aka Tompolo has dissociated himself from a fledging militant group in the Niger-Delta region named as Niger Delta Avengers. The group recently claimed responsibility for...
View ArticleNorthern Governors Say It’s An Insult To Refer To Terrorist Herdsmen As Fulani
Governors of 19 Northern States rose from their meeting in Kaduna Friday, April 29, 2016 condemning the labelling of perpetrators of crimes around the country as Fulani people. The Governors, who met...
View ArticleFG Moves To Stop Religious Prayers At Gov’t Events, See New ‘National Prayer’...
Strong indications have emerged of the Federal Government’s move to stop the saying of opening prayers at events across the nation and replace it with reciting the second stanza of the National Anthem....
View ArticleDear Northern Governors, We Identify People By Their Tribe All Over Nigeria
Goveror Kashim Shettima of Borno State speaking on behalf of the Northern Governors Forum of which he is the chairman said that the media and social media users were insulting the Fulani by referring...
View Article‘So, We Should Call Them Yoruba Herdsmen?’: Northern Governors Slammed Over...
The 19 northern governors came under criticism over their position that the Fulani should not be labelled as criminals. The Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, asked the governors to bury...
View ArticleMy Administration Will Use NYSC To Drive ‘Change’– Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari said on Friday that the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme would be used to drive his administration’s change mantra. The News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN) reports that...
View ArticleCardinal Onaiyekan Escapes Death In Terrorist Fulani Herdsmen Attack
Tragedy was averted late on Friday, April 29, 2016 when Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, Cardinal John Onaiyekan, survived an attempt on his life by suspected herdsmen along Benin-Ekpoma road in Edo...
View ArticleNLC Faction Rejects N56,000 Minimum Wage, Demands N90,000
Ahead of today’s Workers’ Day, also known as May Day, a faction of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, led by Joe Ajaero, on Saturday, April 30, 2016, rejected the N56,000 national minimum wage proposal...
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Edo Crisis Deepens As Gunmen Attack Deputy Governor In Oshiomhole’s...
The governorship ambition of the deputy governor of Edo State, Pius Odubu, is under threat as suspected paid gunmen attacked his convoy on Saturday, April 30, 2016 in Auchi, headquarters of Etsako West...
View ArticleOpinion: TeeBillz And Tiwa Savage, Una Fall My Hand No Be Small, By Charly Boy
by Charly Boy I must confess that my heart breaks a little each time I hear/read about celebrities who self distruct because they couldn’t handle Fame or the ones whose marriages are falling apart,...
View ArticleFormer Minister’s Kidnappers Demand N200 Million Ransom
The hoodlums that abducted the former minister of state for education, Senator Iyabo Anisulowo on Wednesday, April 27,2016 have demanded the payment of N200 million as ransom for her release, Premium...
View ArticleFalana Decries Government Opulence While Workers Are Paid ‘Starvation Wages’
Against the hue and cry by Nigerian state governments over the paucity of funds, leading to inability to pay workers’ salaries, fiery Lagos lawyer and human rights activist, Femi Falana, has said the...
View Article2face Comments On Tiwa Savage And Teebillz Split [TWEET]
Singer Tiwa Savage and husband Tunji ‘Teebillz’ Balogun have been in the news following their split that went public on Thursday, April 29, 2016. The social media space has dissected the issue with...
View ArticleCatholic Bishop Weds 109 Couples On One Day In Nasarawa
The Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Lafia, Nasarawa State, Most Rev. Matthew Audu on Saturday, April 30, 2016, in Masaka, wedded over 109 couples in an history breaking ceremony. Daily Post reports...
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