GUNMEN on Tuesday evening ambushed a six-man police patrol team on the Maiduguri-Bama Road and killed three of them. They injured three others, including the driver of the vehicle. The incident occurred at 5 p.m. An eyewitness said that the...

GOVERNOR Abdul’aziz Abubakar Yari of Zamfara State yesterday kicked off campaign for the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) candidates contesting the June 23, 2012, local council elections. Yari said his administration had fulfilled 80 per...

IT is a vice, which could never have been imagined a few years ago. But now, it has become a “norm” in  Opi community of Enugu State, where young men take delight in raping elderly women, some old enough to be their great-grand mothers. The...

HEALTH Minister, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, has lamented the absence of hi-tech equipment in most Nigerian universities. For the few available ones, the minister said they had either broken down or were in a deplorable state. He linked the trend...

FOR several hours yesterday, the people of Kir community in Gassol Local Council of Taraba State took to the streets to protest the alleged seizure of their farmlands by their ruler, Alhaji Idris Yakubu Chiroma. The protesters told journalists...