Category: City Beat

Ex-NUJ treasurer killed by unknown gunmen

  Gunmen have killed a former treasurer of the Nasarawa State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Mr Benjamin Ekom. The killing of Ekom, who was also...

OPC condemns FG’s loans, say it is mortgaging Nigeria to China

The Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) has condemned the Federal Government’s action on the loan arrangements with China, saying the government is tying the nation to the...

We’ll repatriate, prosecute Diezani, others – British govt

  The British Government has promised to work with the Federal Republic of Nigeria in ensuring the prosecution of former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke...

Buhari presides over enlarged Security Council meeting

Buhari presides over enlarged Security Council meeting President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday presided over an ernlarged Security Council meeting at the Council Chamber,...

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Court remands woman for killing step son with rat poison

A Kano Chief Magistrates’ Court on Monday ordered that a 25-year-old woman, Amina Haruna, who allegedly killed her stepson with rat poison, be remanded pending legal...

Illegal taxation: Drivers withdraw service in Calabar

  Commercial taxi drivers in Calabar on Monday withdrew their services to protest alleged illegal taxation by some thugs and local government officials in the...

BuhariInsecurity:Resign now, northern elders tell Buhari

RevolutuionNow: Another mass action against Buhari govt for August 5

  Barely a years after its aborted mass action against the ruling government, the organisers of RevolutionNow has unveiled its plan for another mass nationwide...

Attack on Zulum: FG must set up special investigation Jibrin

…Says fifth columnist may be at work Special adviser to the minister of Defence,Gen Magashi,Gen Ahmed Jibrin has observed that fifth columnist within the army...

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Again, Boko Haram kills 16 in Cameroon’s IDP camp

  It was a season of sorrow,tears and blood for a communty in Northern Cameroon as Boko Haram militants visited them with deaths during the peak of the Sallah...

Buhari plans to clampdown on Yoruba leaders, Akintoye alleges

…Says Nigeria unsafe for Yoruba Prof Banji Akintoye, leader of the Yoruba World Congress, the umbrella body of over 300 Yoruba groups worldwide, has said the...