This followed the gunning down of a shop owner, simply identified as Biliki, in the area
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The week-long 67th Annual Convention of the Redeemed Christian Church of God ended on Sunday with a Thanksgiving Service, during which 1,855 full pastors were ordained by the General Overseer, Pastor Enoch Adeboye.
The Governor of Edo State, Governor Godwin Obaseki, appears to have set aside the alleged rift between his administration and his predecessor, Comrade Adams Oshiomole, when he called at the Iyanmoh residence of the latter in celebration of the Eid-el-Adha.
International Breweries, Linkage Assurance and Forte Oil emerged worst performing stocks in percentage terms on the Nigerian Stock Exchange in July.
Kana made the announcement in Muna while briefing journalists on activities of the medical team of NAHCON for the pilgrims and the latest death.
Data also revealed that over 60 million Nigerian punters spend over N3,000 daily placing bet stakes.
Several Yoruba Groups under the aegis of Apapo Oodua Koya have written to the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, over the killing of Yoruba sons and daughters by Fulani herdsmen in the South West.
The Chairman of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel on the Recovery of Public Property, Okoi Obono-Obla, has reacted to the sealing of his office by operatives of the Nigeria Police.
The Federal Government has said it will sanction a Nigerian musician, Augustine Kelechi, popularly known as Tekno, and use him as a scapegoat to teach others a serious lesson.
How are Nigerians savouring the multiple ironies, paradoxes and aberrations that are unravelling under a demagogic and effete despotic President Muhammadu Buhari administration that is daily detonating grenades across Nigeria? Of a truth, we can now reveal that President Buhari apparently understands the domestic political benefits of unhinged despotism as a tool to crush the persistent geopolitical tensions that have coiled themselves around Nigeria like poison ivy. He has re-imagined autocracy, and at the same time, valorized the democratic process and set himself up as a man fighting a civil war with Nigerians. The untethering of his once concealed fang against urban and suburban activists, agitators, rights advocates and human rights campaigners is emerging as a self-legitimating pretext to shred rule of law while re-introducing military absolutism into our liberal politics.
One slim win and two slim losses were the lot of Nigerian football club sides campaigning in the continent’s 2019/2020 club competitions after Saturday’s first leg matches.
The command’s Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Bala Elkana, stated this on Sunday in a statement.
Farouq said that the title was conferred on President Conde in recognition of the love he has for the President Muhammadu Buhari and Nigeria.
In a match of few chances, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang netted the decisive goal in the second half to hand the Gunners the perfect start after a summer of upheaval
According two the police, the children, who were left by their mother, Florence Asoye, in the care of one Suliat, were burnt beyond recognition
Ganduje in a statement countered an announcement from the Kano Emirate Council on local radio inviting all District Heads to attend the grand Daushe Durbar, which usually holds a day after Sallah in Kano under the leadership of Emir Sanusi
Both sides now boast a club legend in the dugout and are looking to make fresh starts after summers of change and 2018-19 campaigns which, for one reason or another, failed to live up to expectations
Unai Emery has seen the club buy a total of six players – although French centre-back William Saliba has been loaned back to Saint-Etienne for this season
The two teams will fancy their chances of challenging for a spot in the top six this season with both impressing during the 2018-19 campaign – Leicester claiming ninth and Wolves finishing in seventh
The Nigerian Army has confirmed that its personnel, Lance Corporal Ajayi Johnson, shot and killed an okada rider, Chimaobi Nwaogwu, in Umuokereke Ngwa community of Abia State.