How Police aborted gay wedding in Sokoto
A tip-off received by Nigeria’s intelligence officers led to police raiding a suspected gay wedding ceremony on Saturday in the northern city of Sokoto – a leading centre of Islamic…
Pointblanknews.com Publisher Loses Mother
Mrs. Mary Ude-Jack, the mother of the Publisher and Founder of Pointblanknews.com, Chief Jackson Ude, died at the early hours of Monday, August 22, 2016. Mrs. Ude-Jack, 63, a staunch…
Nigeria now has 149.8m active phone lines – NCC Report
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) says inactive lines in the country’s telecommunications industry have increased from 65,186,763 in May to 67,331,498 in June 2016. Active lines stand at 149,818,906. This…
Count me out of PDP crisis – Atiku
Former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, on Sunday said he is not responsible for the leadership crisis currently rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The former PDP man and now a key…
This is not the Change Buhari promised, by Jude Ndukwe
In his recent article titled ‘This is the Change’, presidential spokesperson, Mallam Garba Shehu embarked on an arduous but unsuccessful task of attempting to justify the economic hardship, biting hunger,…
Debts: FG Deducts N32bn from States Allocation, Osun, Bayelsa, 4 other States in critical conditions
The Federal Government has deducted a total sum of N32bn from allocations of states from the Federation Account in the month of April 2016 for different loans they incurred. In…
Okowa Calls for Restructuring of the Civil Service
Delta State Governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa has advocated for the reengineering of the civil service to meet the present needs of the nation. Speaking during the thanksgiving service at…
Niger Govt partners police to improve security
Niger State Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello has said that the state would partner with the Nigeria Police on improved security. Governor Sani Bello stated this when he paid a…
Revealed: How six prisoners died in Abakaliki attempted Jailbreak, by CGP
The Controller-General of Prisons, Ja’afaru Ahmed has confirmed that no prisoner escaped during the attempted jailbreak in the early hours of Thursday 18th August, 2016. He made this disclosure while…
Turkey wedding bomb linked to ISIS, death toll hits 50
The Turkish President declared ISIS as the “likely perpetrator” of an attack that killed 50 people at a wedding in the nation’s southeast. The death toll from the Gaziantep attack…