Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, the Nigerian underwear bomber, serving multiple life sentences in the United States said White Supremacists are making his prison life a hell. He was convicted on 16 February 2012 for trying to set off a bomb in his underwear on a Northwest Airline flight from
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The president of the Senate Bukola Saraki has called on Nigerian’s not to berate President Muhammadu Buhari for his call for focus on the Northeast saying that the region was in dire need of attention. Speaking in an interview with newsmen at the 137th Inter-Parliamentary Union(IPU) Assembly in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saraki said that the […]
Africa holds the key for feeding the nine billion people that will inhabit this planet by 2050, the President of the African Development Bank and 2017 World Food Prize Laureate, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, said during his Norman Borlaug Lecture delivered on World Food Day. The Laureate also called for land tax for unused agricultural land […]
The Nigerian Ports Authority boats pilotage monitoring and supervision contract with INTELS Nigeria Limited remains terminated, the NPA’s Chief Executive, Hadiza Usman, has said. The NPA boss told newsmen on Monday in Lagos that the contract was terminated on the advice of the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Malam Abubakar Malami. According […]
The Abuja residence of the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, was on Sunday evening gutted by fire, TheCable is reporting. According to the online newspaper, Kachikwu was not at home when fire broke out. The fire was first noticed in his bedroom. The suspicion is that it was due to a faulty air conditioner.
Barely 24 hours after the imposition of a curfew by Governor Simon Lalong, gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen have killed over six people in Bassa Local Government Area, with several houses burnt. The incident was said to have happened on Saturday night in Taagbe village, near Kent Academy in Bassa LGA and lasted for many hours. […]
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