By Shu’aibu Usman Leman In the sun-scorched streets of most state capitals in the North, young boys weave through traffic, balancing trays of wares on their heads or in their hands. Their faces glisten with sweat beneath an unforgiving sky. Young girls haul water for the tenth time that day, their school uniforms neatly folded…
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command, said it had arrested 17 suspected cultists. In a statement on Sunday in Abuja, spokesperson of the command, Mariam Yusuf said the suspects were arrested between April 5 and April 9, 2021, by police operatives from the Command’s Anti Cultism unit along Gwagwalada, Gwagwa, Lugbe and Kurudma axis…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has banned Mmesoma Ejikeme, the school girl who allegedly forged her 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) result from taking the board’s examinations for three years. Spokesperson of JAMB, Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in a statement released on Tuesday. The board also insisted that high-level investigations had revealed…
Suspected killers of the retired President of the Customary Court of Appeal, Makurdi, Benue State, Justice Margaret Igbetar, have confessed to having killed her for taking their family’s landed property. Some gunmen had on August 24, 2023, invaded the retired judge’s residence located at Wantor Kwange Street, opposite School of Medicine, Benue State University, Makurdi…
Yesterday marked exactly 28 years to the day, when the freest, most credible and most transparent presidential election ever, took place in Nigeria. It was on Saturday, June 12 1993, that two Muslims, Moshood Kashimawo Olanbiwonnu, Abiola, (MKO Abiola for short) and , running as President and Vice President on a joint ticket, defied primordial…
A federal high court sitting in Abuja on Thursday refused to grant bail to Tukur Mamu, who is standing trial on a 10-count charge bordering on terrorism. Mamu is alleged to have received $120,000 as ransom payments on behalf of the Boko Haram terrorists from families of those kidnapped during the Abuja-Kaduna train attack. He…
