The Emir of Bauchi Alhaji Rilwanu Sulaimanu Adamu has ordered the suspension of his deputy, the Waziri of Bauchi Mohammadu Bello-Kirfi from the Bauchi state Emirate Council. The Emirs directive was made available in a statement on Monday, March 6. The statement said Bello-Kirfi, a former
The United Nations Security Council has urged the Nigerian government to step up response to the humanitarian crisis arising from the Boko Haram insurgency. The body also called on Federal Government to scale up disbursement of the one billion dollars Nigeria pledged at the Oslo conference from the states and the national levels. Matthew Rycroft, […]
The Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BOT), Sen. Walid Jubril, says the party leaders are ready to visit and sympathise with President Muhammadu Buhari in London. Jubril, who denied that the party promoted the rumoured death of the President, said that the PDP was rather praying fervently for Buhari’s safe return to Nigeria. “Let him […]
Ace comedian, Ali Baba has recalled how former president, Olusegun Obasanjo ‘threatened’ him over money. The comedian noted that the ‘threats’ started sometime in 2015 when OBJ discovered how much he was paid to perform at events. According to him, OBJ usually linked him up with events and would ask for ‘his cut’ and threatened […]
The Kano State Government on Tuesday said it would construct eight earth dams in order to boost irrigation activities across the 44 local government areas of the state. Alhaji Sulaiman Ririwai, Commissioner for Water Resources and Rural Development, made this known in Kano that the project had commenced in Doguwa Local Government Area. Ririwai said […]
Former military head of state, General Yakubu Gowon has revealed how late sage, Obafemi Awolowo saved Nigeria from breaking up during the civil war that lasted between 1967-1970. Gowon made this revelation on Monday at this year’s edition of the Obafemi Awolowo Memorial Lecture and posthumous birthday organised by the Obafemi Awolowo Foundation in Lagos. […]










