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Senate Committee wants 30 Company CEOs arrested for alleged involvement in...
The Senate has requested the Nigeria Police to arrest Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of 30 firms operating in the country for failing to appear...
NORTH EAST
NERI sensitizes Yobe community against cholera outbreak
The North East Regional Initiative (NERI) in collaboration with Yunusari Local Government Council has organized a 10-day ‘Cash for Work programme” for 100 youths...
PCNI conducts training for Security and Response Officers in the North...
The Presidential Committee on the North East Initiative PCNI in collaboration with the Centre for Crisis Communication (CCC) has organized a training workshop in...
PCNI
NERI sensitizes Yobe community against cholera outbreak
The North East Regional Initiative (NERI) in collaboration with Yunusari Local Government Council has organized a 10-day ‘Cash for Work programme” for 100 youths...
PCNI conducts training for Security and Response Officers in the North...
The Presidential Committee on the North East Initiative PCNI in collaboration with the Centre for Crisis Communication (CCC) has organized a training workshop in...
BUSINESS & ECONOMY
Nigerian Lottery Trust Fund distributes medical first aid cabinets to secondary...
Thursday, 5th April, 2018 marked the day for the extension of intervention programme of the National Lottery Trust Fund to secondary schools in Nigeria....
Adeosun removes Abdul Zubair as acting SEC boss DG, appoints Mary...
Mrs Kemi Adeosun, Nigeria's Minister of Finance, on Friday, April 13, appointed Mary Uduk, as the new Director -General, the Securities and Exchange Commission...
SPORTS
Commonwealth Games: Team Nigeria wrestlers win gold
It was a sweet outing for Team Nigeria’s Odunayo Adekuoroye on Friday, as she successfully defended her 2014 Commonwealth Games gold medal at the...
Nigeria National Football team moves up FIFA ranking
The Super Eagles of Nigeria have climbed five places to 47th on the latest FIFA world rankings released Thursday.
It’s the highest position for the...
GIST
Wife in Kaduna seeks divorce over husband’s love for anal sex
A house wife, Asma’u Sulaiman, on Thursday prayed a Sharia court at Magajin Gari Kaduna to dissolve her marriage with her husband over frequent...
University, others react to professor’s sex for mark allegation
The Management of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile Ife, Osun State on Tuesday said it was aware of the allegation of demand for...
POLITICS
MEDICINE, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
NCAA Warns Pilots, Airlines Over Bad Weather, Heavy Rains
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) yesterday issued a weather hazard alert to all pilots and airline operators, urging them to be wary of...
SECURITY
Chief Magistrate sued by ICPC bags 3 years jail term over...
A Chief Magistrate, Mohammed Balogun, has been sentenced to three years imprisonment by an Abuja High Court for demanding a bribe of N100, 000...
ENTERTAINMENT
CAMPUS NEWS
Nigerian Lottery Trust Fund distributes medical first aid cabinets to secondary...
Thursday, 5th April, 2018 marked the day for the extension of intervention programme of the National Lottery Trust Fund to secondary schools in Nigeria....
NEPTUNE PERSONALITY
Professor Fanna Inna Abdulrahman: First Kanuri Female Professor
From Hussaini Mohammed Baba
She may not be the first female Professor from Borno State and she may be. We will soon lay that issue...
“MARRIAGE CANNOT BE A BARRIER TO EDUCATION” – An encounter with Bauchi’s Second Female Professor
Prof. Fatima Ja’afar Tahir is Bauchi State’s second female but first female professor of microbiology, first female professor in Bauchi Local Government and first...
Zulai Daya and Hadiza Lavers: First female graduates of Yobe
From Aderoju Jonathan, Lagos and Ibrahim Ismail, Kano
Zulai Abdullahi Daya
An educator who made history as the first female graduate of Yobe extraction (sharing the...
Amina Bashir: Yobe’s first female Professor
Professor Amina Abubakar Bashir, who became a Professor in 2009, was born on the 8th of June, 1960 in Potiskum, Yobe State, but is...
Barrister Gimba, a lawyer at 22, making Yobe State proud
Suleiman Hassan Gimba, a “New Wig” as they say, was called to the Bar at the tender age of 22, making him one of...
INTERVIEWS
2019: “I Won’t Be Intimidated”, INEC Chairman spits fire
Says Poorly Conducted Elections, Recipe For Disaster
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has said he would not...
I watched my friend’s girl friend raped to death — Libyan returnee
Customs collect N7000 at Kano border
Nigerian ladies turned to sex slaves
Male migrants given out to gays
By Evelyn Usman
On January 14, 2018,...
Barrister Gimba, a lawyer at 22, making Yobe State proud
Suleiman Hassan Gimba, a “New Wig” as they say, was called to the Bar at the tender age of 22, making him one of...
An interview with Samar Khoury, a British international freelance model
Could you tell us a bit about yourself?
I'm Samar Khoury, British, a Biochemistry Life Sciences graduate from King's College London University, an international freelance...
APC used and dumped me-Atiku
A former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, has said that the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) runs an un-inclusive administration.
He lamented...
RELIGION
The Sweep With Hassan Alhaji Hassan: Open Letter to the Compatriot Christian
Dear brothers and sisters,
I write you with a pleased but a heavy heart. It is good to write an open letter in a season...
Marriage Advice with Hijr Miskeen: Marriage to Cousins
Marriage to cousins is actually something Halal Tayib contrary to what a lot of people say. We mustn’t make something permissible impermissible. Ibrahim AS...
PRESS STATEMENT: FG is responsible for the death of Sheikh Qaseem Umar-IMN
As a leading figure in the Islamic Movement, Sheikh Qaseem Umar is laid to rest in his home, Sokoto today 07/02/18, we unequivocally announce to...
“We are not placated by Sheikh Zakzaky’s video clip”-IMN to FG
PRESS STATEMENT
Sheikh El-Zakzaky was allowed to speak to a selected section of the Press on Saturday 13th January 2018 for the first time since...
Statement: IMN demands Zakzaky’s release to get medical care
Free Zakzaky processions were carried out in major towns of Northern Nigeria to press for the freedom of Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky because of the...
NEPTUNE TRIBUTE
Lami Fatima Babare (1966-2018): End of an Era by Hassan Gimba
Lami Fatima Babare, my beloved wife, my friend, the mother of my children. Today marks one week of your painful death. When we got...
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