BY GODWIN OBI Three persons have reportedly been killed on Sunday after gunmen suspected to be bandits invaded some communities under Gusau Local Government Area of Zamfara State. An unspecified number of villagers, mostly women, were said to have been kidnapped during the assault. Some of the villages said toContinue Reading
The Director General of NIMASA Dr Bashir Jamoh gave out his Daughter Hadiza to Abba Kabir Dankaura at a wedding Fatiha which took place in Kaduna over the weekendre are some pictures from the event. R-L: McGeorge Onyung; DG NIMASA, Dr. Bashir Jamoh; bride, Hadiza Bashir Jamoh; groom, Abba KabirContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Ebonyi State Governor in South-East Nigeria, Dave Umahi has allayed the fears and suspicion in some quarters that a Nigerian President of Igbo extraction will break up the country. Umahi, who spoke when he hosted some APC Governors to a dinner party in his country home, UburuContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Police have arrested a former Imo State gubernatorial candidate, Uche Nwosu. Nwosu, a son-in-law to former Governor Rochas Okorocha, was whisked away by the security agencies at St. Peter’s Anglican Church, Eziama-Obaire, Nkwerre Local Government Area of Imo State on Sunday. The heavily-armed security operatives stormed theContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Desperate bids by drug cartels to push out millions of illicit drug tablets across Lagos and other parts of the country for the festive season have been frustrated by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), with the seizure of 8,381,600 capsules and tablets of Tramadol, asContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Former Anambra Governor, Peter Obi loses shopping mall in Abuja One of the biggest department stores in Abuja, the nation’s capital, the Next Cash and Carry has been gutted by fire. The incident is said to have started at about 10am on Sunday. As at the timeContinue Reading