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‘Shi’ism Is Not Islam’– Supreme Council For Sharia Says It Will Punish Shi’ites

The Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria has said that members of Islamic Movement in Nigeria, the largest Shi’ite sect in country, indicted in the December 2015 clash with the Nigerian Army in Zaria...

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Supreme Council Of Sharia Condemns CAN For Asking Christians To Defend...

The Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria has said that members of Islamic Movement in Nigeria, the largest Shi’ite sect in country, indicted in the December 2015 clash with the Nigerian Army in Zaria...

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Nigeria Beats Sweden, Qualifies For Olympic Quarter Finals

Nigeria’s Olympic football team, the Dream Team, on Monday, August 8, 2016 qualified for the quarterfinals of the Olympic Games football event after a 1-0 victory over Sweden. Determined to dictate the...

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Budget Padding: 2 APC Governors Are Preventing Me From Seeing Buhari – Jibrin

Abdulmumin Jibrin, a former chairman, House Committee on Appropriation, on Sunday, August 7, 2016, said two state governors and three former members of the House of Representatives were preventing him...

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Jibrin Appears Before Police Investigative Panel On Budget Padding

Abdulmumin Jibrin, the ousted chairman of the House of Representatives’ Committee on Appropriation, on Monday, August 8, 2016, met with the Police Special Investigation Panel on the budget padding...

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Presidency Denies Jibrin Was ‘Blocked’ From Seeing Buhari

The Nigerian presidency on Monday, August 8, 2016 deplored what it said were attempts by Abdulmumin Jibrin to drag President Muhammadu Buhari into the budget padding allegations. It said Jibrin, as a...

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Convention: PDP Governors Set For Face-off With Makarfi-Led Committee

Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, are currently at loggerheads with the Ahmed Makarfi-led national caretaker committee for breaching the agreement they had when...

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#FreeAbusidiq: ‘You Have No Right To Arrest A Blogger’– APC Youths Tell EFCC

The All Progressives Congress Youth Forum, APYF, on Monday, August 8, 2016, accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, of abusing its powers under the law by sending its operatives to...

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‘Boko Haram Can’t Carry Out Any Attack Anywhere’– Buratai

Tukur Buratai, Nigeria’s chief of Army Staff, has said that the Nigerian Army has defeated the once-dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram, and has also degraded their capability  to re-group in any part of...

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Former Speaker Tambuwal Backs Dogara Over Budget Padding

Aminu Tambuwal, the Sokoto State governor, has thrown his weight behind the embattled speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, against his accuser, a former chairman of the House...

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I Will Fight Nigeria And The Whole World – Deposed Boko Haram Leader Shekau

Abubakar Shekau, Boko Haram ousted leader, has appeared in a new video vowing to fight on, shrugging off an apparent split in the hardline jihadist group blamed for thousands of deaths since 2009. “I,...

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Northerners Should Not Join Southerns To Criticize Buhari – Emir Of Katsina

The emir of Katsina, Alhaji Abdulmumini Kabir Usman, has urged northerners to stop criticising President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration arguing that what the Emir described as 16 years of damage...

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Deji Adeyanju: The Needed Transfiguration of PDP Publicity Machinery (READ)

Jude Ndukwe makes a case for Deji Adeyanju, the director of new media of the People’s Democratic Party to be elected as the party’s national publicity secretary.  Come August 17, 2016, the Peoples...

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‘Nnamdi Kanu Incarcerated While Boko Haram Terrorists Freed Shows Buhari’s...

Ohanaeze Youth Council has reaffirmed its position that the continued detention of leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu by the Buhari-led federal government was “escalating...

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‘Kill One Niger Delta Soul, We Will Kill 100 Northerners’– Adaka Boro Avengers

A militant group based in the oil-rich region of southern Nigeria, the Adaka Boro Avengers, which recently dumped its move to declare a Republic of Niger Delta, on Sunday, August 7, 2016, reacted to...

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Militants Kill 3 Soldiers In Bayelsa, Carts Away Ammunition

Suspected militants on Monday, August 8, 2016, attacked the location of the newly-activated Joint Task Force, Operation Delta Safe, in Bayelsa State, and killed three soldiers. The incident, which...

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Fake Splinter Group Is Buhari’s Government Creation – Niger Delta Avengers

The leading militant group operating the oil-rich region of southern Nigeria, the Niger Delta Avengers, have dismissed a report there is a breakaway in its ranks, saying that the purported...

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TRAGIC: Pregnant Lagos Teenager Commits 17-Year-Old By Drinking Poison

Temitope Saka, a 17-year-old girl, has died after drinking insecticide in the Igando area of Lagos State. According to Punch, the deceased left behind a suicide note in which she allegedly blamed her...

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47-Year-Old Man Arrested For Over Rape Of 18-Month-Old Baby

Emmanuel Magbatie, a 47-year-old man, has been arrested for allegedly having carnal knowledge of an 18-month-old girl in Owutu axis of Ikorodu, Lagos State. This came barely a week after the Lagos...

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The Real Identity Of Arepo Militants And Why The APC Gov’t Approved Bombing...

The real story behind the bombing of militants in Arepo in riverine community and militant hideout in Ogun State may be finally making its way into the public. An exclusive ‘inside story’ has surfaced...

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