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A FORMER presidential aide has lost – temporarily – a big hotel to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The anti-graft agency seized the hotel, allegedly worth “between N650 million and N1 billion”, from Mr. Ima Niboro, who…

In Defence of the Fulani in Our Midst By Reuben Abati July 3,2018 State of the nation: In the last two weeks, over 200 persons in Plateau State were reportedly killed by Fulani herdsmen, 45 villages were ransacked and sacked and…

BUHARI, RESTRUCTURING AND “THE VOICE OF REASON (VOR)". Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari may not know that what he fears or detests most, restructuring (of the federation) is actually what he needs most to make history as a leader.…

The Nigeria police, Monday attributed delayed payment of salaries to policemen to the delay in the passage of the 2018 budget. This is just as the Presidency summoned the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Idris, to explain…

There was commotion in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital Monday as mobile police officers took to the street to protest six months unpaid allowances. It was learnt that the officers were posted to the state in January to strengthen…

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A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted bail to the former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd). This is the sixth bail granted to the former NSA. However, he has remained in custody of the Department of State…

The spokesman for the Northern Elders Forum, Prof. Ango Abdullahi, has met with former President Olusegun Obasanjo in his home in Abeokuta, Ogun State, to strategise for the 2019 presidential election. The meeting, which held last Thursday…

Egyptian star rewarded for remarkable debut campaign on Merseyside - and his new deal contains no release clause Mohamed Salah has signed a new long term contract at Liverpool, which will keep him at Anfield until 2023. The…