Abdulrasheed Maina, former chairman of the defunct Pension Reformed Task Team on Friday told the Federal High Court, Abuja, that his leg might be amputated if not granted bail to have adequate medicare. Maina, through his Counsel, Sani Katu, SAN, told Justice Okon Abang at the

Popular Islamic scholar, Sheikh Gumi, has called on the Federal Government to give bandits willing to make peace ‘blanket amnesty’ if the current security situation must be tackled The Islamic scholar disclosed this on Friday while addressing journalists in Minna, Niger State capital. “The Federal government should

Former Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha has reacted to Governor Hope Uzodimma's announcement of renaming the Eastern Palm University to K. O. Mbadiwe University shortly after the son of the late politician and ambassador, Greg Mbadiwe decamped to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The senator representing Imo West senatorial

Residents of Ovia Northeast Local Government Area of Edo State stormed Government House, Benin, with the body of one of the seven persons killed in their area by criminal herdsmen. The protesters arrived at the government house on Thursday evening, Feb 18, where they gave Governor

The Senate, on Thursday, considered a bill seeking to stop employers in the private and public sectors from engaging employable Nigerian graduates as casual workers. The Prohibition of Casualisation Bill 2020 was sponsored by Senator Ayo Akinyelure. Akinyelure said casualisation of Nigerian graduates in the Nigerian labour

Mohammed, who trained as a medical doctor, died on Thursday in Kano. According to family sources, the former lawmaker reportedly died at an isolation centre but was not positive for the coronavirus. He was one of the founding members of the People’s Redemption Party (PRP) in 1976

The Kaduna based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmed Gumi has met with the leaders of armed bandits behind the kidnap of the Government Science College Kagara in Niger state with full assurance that the abducted school children will be released in a matter of days. A source

Contrary to his earlier claims that insurgency had been technically defeated, immediate past Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, yesterday, said the war may not be won in the next 20 years. He said until infrastructure facilities are provided in some neglected parts of the country,

The aggrieved staff of The Polytechnic Ibadan (academic and non-academic staff) said on Thursday that it suspended its industrial action over the non-implementation of the new national minimum wage by the Oyo State Government. The workers embarked on an indefinite industrial action since January 11 following