THE Arewa Consultative Forum has asked the Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Joseph Mbu, to release the 320 persons arrested in the state on Sunday as Boko Haram suspects. The northern group said the people arrested by the Rivers State Police Command were traders. South-South and South-East Coordinator of ACF, Alhaji Musa Saidu, told…
Nigeria’s foremost conglomerate, Dangote Industries Ltd is to invest $300 million (N50 billion) in rice production to make the country, self sufficient in rice production and also stop importation of the product into the country. The President of the Group, Aliko Dangote last week at the World Economic Forum (WEF), Davos Switzerland said his Group’s…
ASABA — MEN of the Delta State Police command have arrested a 14-year-old boy for allegedly masterminding the kidnap of his grandmother.Ironically, the abductors also took away the boy along with the grandmother and another victim in the process of kidnap but dropped off the accused before getting to their hideout.It was also not the…
Many people including 2 policemen were feared killed as gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram members attacked a church in Chakawa village of Madagali Local Government area of Adamawa.Some residents of the affected village who fled the area told newsmen that they were attacked by gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram members during Sunday service…
The rehabilitation of the railway line from Kuru station in Plateau State to Bauchi station would be completed at the end of February, 2014, Minister of Transport, Senator Idris Umar has said.Umar said this yesterday during the inspection tour of the rehabilitation of the rail lines in Kafanchan District of Nigerian Railway, which covers some…
Nigerian youths under the aegis of the youth wing of the National Coalition for Jonathan/Sambo Presidency, NACOJP, have handed down a 45-day ultimatum to President Goodluck Jonathan to indicate interest in the 2015 presidential election or face their wrath. The youths said Jonathan must contest the 2015 presidential election and asked him to indicate his…
Community Grammar School, Amuloko, off Akanran Road in the Ona Ara Local Government Area of Ibadan, Oyo State was thrown into confusion and became a Mecca of sorts yesterday following the mysterious inscription of the name of Allah on the bark of a tree in the premises of the school. Many inhabitants of Amuloko rushed…
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar on Sunday started his nationwide consultation ahead of the 2015 presidential election from the North-West geo-political zone of the country. It was gathered that many of the stakeholders at the consultative meeting urged him to contest the 2015 presidential election under the platform of the All Progressives Congress. A statement from…
Harcourt, Rivers State, on Sunday, as the state police command confirmed the arrest of 320 Boko Haram suspects.ADVERTISEMENT Though details were still sketchy as of the time of filing this report, Nigerian Tribune gathered that the suspects were arrested from a convoy of 17 commuter buses, all coming from Jigawa State. However, sources at the…
A coalition of Northern and Igbo youths has cautioned the Northern Elders Forum on its call for Lt.-Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika’s trial at the International Crime Court (ICC). It said the elders should not destroy the young generation with hatred, division and mistrust. Addressing a joint news briefing in Abuja, the presidents of the Ohanaeze Ndi-Igbo…