Aisha Jummai Al-Hassan, popularly known as Mama Taraba is dead, sources confirmed to The PUNCH on Friday. She died at 61 in Cairo, Egypt. “Mama (Al-Hassan) died in a hospital today in Cairo. We will miss her,” a former aide…
Former president of the Nigerian senate, Abubakar Bukola Saraki on Friday, donated the sum of ten million naira to Gambari mosque in Ilorin, Kwara State. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain disclosed this in a post on his official Twitter…
One of the freed students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna state, Sarah Sunday, has reacted to their kidnap by bandits. The college students were abducted when gunmen attacked their school on March 12. Although 39 of…
Students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna state, have been reunited with their families. The students, who had earlier been taken for a medical check-up by the state government, were reunited with their family members on Friday.…
Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has lashed out at prominent Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi describing him as a ‘hungry and insatiable wolf that thirsts for blood.’ Fani-Kayode also alleged that Gumi has no morals but is interested in war…
A Nigerian doctor, identified as Dr Penkking has taken to the micro blogging platform to talk about how Iniobong Umoren’s killer, Uduak Frank Akpan, was specialized in luring and kidnapping job seekers, youth Corp members, students and pupils, killing them,…
The suspended Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman has again refuted allegations of failing to remit the operating surplus of the agency to the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CFR). In a letter dated May 5, 2021,…
General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Pastor Enoch Adeboye on Friday night broke his silence after the demise of his son, Dare Adeboye. The 42-year-old died in his sleep on Tuesday, May 4 in Eket, Akwa-Ibom…
The Ministry of Defence has revealed how the controversial $1 billion released by President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to procure arms was expended. According to the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence, Musa Istifanus, the fund was released while waiting for the…
The former lawmaker Representing Kaduna Central in the Senate, Shehu Sani, has disclosed that agitators are calling for the breakup of Nigeria because of bad governance under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari. Sani further stated that the leader of…
Gunmen have killed at least seven policemen during an attack on checkpoints and police stations in Rivers State, on Friday night. The gunmen killed two police officers in the Rumuji police station in Emuoha Local Government Area of state, burnt…
The United States has rejected plans to relocate its Africa Command from its current base in Germany to Nigeria or any other part of Africa. The US was responding to a request from President Muhammadu Buhari to Secretary of State,…