Buhari, Osinbajo, others paid N2.295bn in salaries
Substantial cuts in the salaries of both President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Professor Yemi Osinbajo earlier announced when the duo came to office last year may be nothing to write…
Complete Minna-Suleja road: Gov Sani Bello begs FG
In an effort towards ensuring safety, enhancing socio-economic activities and reducing road accident, Niger State Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello has pleaded with the Federal Government to complete the abandoned…
Buhari: The manager who cannot manage, by Ken Ugbechie
The fabled Saint Teresa of Calcutta popularly called Mother Teresa remains one of the best models to benchmark humanity’s claim to being agents of change. In her active years, she…
Troops kill 38 Boko Haram insurgents in border towns
Soldiers from Niger and Chad have killed 38 Boko Haram fighters during operations that followed attacks by the Nigerian Islamist group on two border towns in southeastern Niger earlier this…
Kano loses two pilgrims in Saudi Arabia
The Kano State Pilgrims Welfare Board has confirmed the death of two pilgrims from the state in Saudi Arabia during the 2016 Hajj. The Public Relations Officer of the board,…
Four soldiers, 23 militants killed in Operation Crocodile Smile
Operation “Crocodile Smile”, the recently launched military onslaught in the Niger Delta region has brought relative peace to the region but it has left no fewer than 23 militants and…
Angry Ambode gives contractors seven days ultimatum to deliver road projects
Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Saturday urged contractors handling the 114 road projects in the state to speed up work or be sanctioned. Ambode issued a similar ultimatum…
Iheanacho scores, Iwobi make huge impact as City, Arsenal win big in EPL
Nigeria’s Kelechi Iheanacho’s rating as one of the best strikers in Europe continues to soar as he made one goal and scored another in the Manchester City rout of visiting…
NECO releases result, records high pass rate in Maths and English
The National Examination Council (NECO) on Friday released the 2016 June/July Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) results. Sketch details of the result released showed a high pass rate in mathematics…
Trump eats own word, admits Obama was born in the United States
Donald J. Trump publicly retreated from his “birther” campaign on Friday, acknowledging that President Obama was born in the United States and saying that he wanted to move on from…