2018

The younger brother of Nigeria’s all time highest goal scorer, Rashidi Yekini, Akeem, is dead. A member of Kwara Football Association, Alhaji Wasiu Lawal, who visited the family on Tuesday, confirmed this to our reporter. He said Akeem…

Brig.-Gen. Suleiman Kazaure, the Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps ( NYSC ), has urged corps members to consider enlisting in the armed forces. Kazaure gave the advice in an interview with the News men on Tuesday at the…

The Nigerian police said they have smashed two gun running and arms dealing ring and a gang of robbers and kidnappers in the Benue-Taraba axis, making 11 arrests. Among the suspects arrested was one Miracle Emmanuel, a 27 year-old gun…

A Sharia Court sitting at Magajin Gari in Kaduna yesterday ordered that Idris Sai’du be given five strokes of cane for violation of the Islamic Law on divorce. The judge, Mallam Dahiru Lawal also ordered the man to pay N5,000 to Hauwa…

Senate President Bukola Saraki met face to face with Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) acting Chairman Ibrahim Magu in Abuja. It was at the N24billion newly completed office complex of the anti-graft agency which Saraki…

The Federal High Court in Lagos Division has ordered a temporary forfeiture of N7.3billion and $8.4million allegedly belonging to former First Lady Dame Patience Jonathan. Justice Mojisola Olateregun made the order based on a fresh…

MINISTER of Communications Adebayo Shittu yesterday accused Oyo State Governor Abiola Ajimobi of being afraid of him (Shittu). He said Ajimobi was afraid because of going to jail if he succeeds him in office, owing to mismanagement of the…

About 20.000 primary school children in  the southern senatorial district of Nasarawa State were reportedly forced out of school in  the wake of the attacks by suspected herdsmen on border communities of the state and Benue State.…

Weeks after thugs invaded the Senate and snatched the mace, the symbol of authority, indications have emerged that the upper legislative chamber may be plotting to impose fresh sanctions on suspended Senator Ovie Omo-Agege. This is coming…

Barely 48 hours after he survived attack in Awka, the Anambra State capital, at a stakeholders’ meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on the conduct of ward congresses in the state, Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris…