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Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State, has said some Boko Haram members are Christians, Muslims, white men and Asians.   Zulum spoke during the 17th Chief Gani Fawehinmi Annual Lecture organised by the Nigerian Bar Association in Ikeja, Lagos State, over the weekend. The governor said Nigerians should see insurgency as a general challenge and not just a ...

A Texas megachurch pastor and former spiritual adviser to Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush has been sentenced to six years in prison for bilking investors out of millions of dollars.   Kirbyjon H. Caldwell, 67, was sentenced Wednesday in Shreveport, Louisiana, where he and his co-defendant, Gregory A. Smith, were indicted in 2018. Caldwell, who in ...

The House of Reps has asked that school resumption in the country be postponed by three months to put in necessary safety measures in wake of the ravaging Covid-19 virus.  This is as the House faulted the Federal Government for approving that schools resume on Monday. The House claims that officials did not consult the relevant committees ...

Joe Biden plans to end Trump’s restriction on immigration to the U.S. from some Muslim-majority countries, in his first hours as president.   He will move to rejoin the Paris climate accord and mandate mask-wearing on federal property and during interstate travel. He will also extend the moratorium on student loan payments and actions meant to prevent evictions ...

    The Lagos state government has scheduled the second term of the 2020/2021 academic session to run for 61 days for public and private schools in the state.   According to the revised calendar for the 2020/2021 academic session released by the Office of the Education Quality Assurance (OEQA), the second term for all schools in the state is scheduled to ...

  Tragedy struck in Arue-Uromi, Esan-North East Local Government Area of Edo State on Friday, January 16, when six children were crushed to death by a Mercedes Benz car bearing a learner driver sign.     It was gathered that the children, four girls and two boys, said to be siblings, were playing football when an approaching Mercedes Benz ...

A suspected ritualist den was uncovered on sunday January 17, opposite the University teaching hospital Ado Ekiti. An elderly man was paraded by residents of the area as a suspect and some of the items found at the den include cheque books, human photos , wigs, horn, ATMs and other materials. The suspect has reportedly been handed ...

  Aside from the pigeons in Abuja not flying after President Buhari freed them during the Armed Forces Remembrance Day celebration, the ones in Imo state also refused to fly when they were released by the state governor, Hope Uzodinma, during the Armed Forces Remembrance Day celebration in Owerri, the state capital on Friday, January 15.   Watch the ...

FG Orders Immediate Closure Of Enrolment Activities At NIMC Headquarters The Federal Government has ordered immediate closure of enrolment activities at the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) Headquarters, Abuja and reactivation of 20 centers within the FCT to make the process of NIN enrolment much easier from Monday, January 18th 2021. A statement signed by the Head, ...

  Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, 76, has won a sixth term in office amid vote-rigging claims from his opposition challenger, Bobi Wine.   The country's electoral commission announced on Saturday January 16, that Museveni received 58% of votes and Wine 34%, and voter turnout was 52%.   "The electoral commission declares Yoweri Museveni... elected President of the Republic of Uganda," ...

  Donald Tober, the artificial sweetener magnate who made Sweet’N Low a household name across America has committed suicide at the age of 89. The CEO and co-owner of Sugar Foods, jumped to his death from the 11th floor of his $10 million Park Avenue apartment building in Manhattan just before dawn on Friday, according to the ...

  Elder statesman and Second Republic Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Dr. Junaid Mohammed has stated that over 99 percent of Buhari’s appointments are not based on merit.   The former lawmaker said this in reaction to Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Mathew Kukah's allegation of President Buhari running a nepotistic administration.   Junaid who noted that he has no issue with ...

  The US Justice Department prosecutors have formally taken back their assertion in a court filing that said Capitol rioters from the January 6 attempted insurrection sought to "capture and assassinate elected officials." On Thursday it was revealed by the US Justice department that strong evidence suggested the plan of the rioters was to assassinate Vice-president Mike Pence ...

  Iheoma Nnadi, a former beauty queen and wife of footballer Emmanuel Emenike has narrated how a friend blocked her because she couldn't attend a party due to COVID-19 and because she (friend) wished her happy new year first.   Nnadi also listed others reasons as "being uncomfortable around her husband and also not sending a lashes contact".   The former ...

  Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno state has asked leaders of the south-south and south-east regions to negotiate for power ahead of 2023.   Zulum said this on Friday January 15 while speaking at the 17th Chief Gani Fawehinmi annual lecture in Lagos.   He stated that only God gives power, while negotiation is easier when you make friends “across the divide”. The ...