No less than eight persons were killed while many others sustained injuries in an explosion at a police checkpoint in Damaturu, the state capital of Yobe, by suspected Boko Haram terrorist bomber. Police Public Relations Officer, Yobe State Police Command, Mr. Toyin Gbadegesin, confirmed the suicide attack at a checkpoint at the outskirts of Damaturu.…
No less than eight persons were killed while many others sustained injuries in an explosion at a police checkpoint in Damaturu, the state capital of Yobe, by suspected Boko Haram terrorist bomber. Police Public Relations Officer, Yobe State Police Command, Mr. Toyin Gbadegesin, confirmed the suicide attack at a checkpoint at the outskirts of Damaturu.…
Everything changes except change itself, and the change in this case is God. The Zoo (Nigeria) will by the grace of Chukwu Okike (God, the Creator), expectedly experience a monumental alteration commensurate to the required surgical expedients to correct the numerous ills that contributed to the Zoo’s current deplorable and dilapidated state of affairs. Of…
The Zoo (expired Nigeria) is one almighty contraption primed to produce concocted lies, falsified facts, full of corrupted, recycled retired and tired bunch of uneducated baboons and monkeys. The National Broadcasting Commission on Friday said that it had neutralised Radio Biafra. The commission, in a statement in Abuja by its Director-General, Mr. Emeka Mba, said…
The stand-off between operatives of the Department of State and the immediate past National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd), continued today, with the former military officials holed up in his palatial home at 13 John Khadiya Street, Asokoro. The security operatives are insisting on arresting and taking him to their headquarters on the precincts…
Keen observers of Nigeria’s foreign policy and diplomatic practice are divided in their disposition to the proposed visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to the United States. To members of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), there is a sense of celebration that Nigeria is returning to international reckoning with the proposed visit but most Nigerians…
A twin explosion rocked the city of Gombe, the Gombe capital killing at least 50 people and injuring several others. The victims were doing their last-minute shopping for today’s sallah celebration. Police commissioner Kudu Nma Abdullahi confirmed the incident at the State Specialist Hospital where some of the victims were receiving treatment. He said the…
The emerging trend of Boko Haram terrorists’ killings and wanton destructions of properties in the recent days points to increasing intensity and unrelenting determination to overrun the military and indeed instill fears in people. The authorities of the Nigerian Army have confirmed that 50 people lost their lives in two bomb explosions that rocked Damaturu, the…
The Association of Senior Civil Servants has demanded a minimum wage of N46,000 for workers. The union’s Secretary-General, Mr. Bashir Lawal, in Lagos State, on Wednesday, said that the existing N18, 000 minimum wage could not meet the socio-economic demands of workers. According to him, a minimum wage of N46,000 demand was arrived at after…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo said on Wednesday that he chose the late former President Umaru Yar’ Adua as his successor because the others, who wanted the post, were corrupt. Obasanjo said one of the people who wanted to succeed him in 2007 was “stinkingly corrupt” and that the only way he (Obasanjo) could justify himself…