The Senate has confirmed the appointment of Mr. Haliru Nababa as the Controller-General of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS). This was sequel to the consideration and adoption on Wednesday of the report of the Senate Committee on Interior, chaired by Senator Kashim Shettima (APC, Bo…
We produce crude oil but can not refine our domestic product for local consumption. We have money but our citizens are hungry. We have money and have spent it on hospital but could not see the hospital. We have money and have spent billions of dollars on electricity but still living in da…
The lawmaker representing Abia-North in the senate, Orji Uzor-Kalu, has alleged that he picked the senator representing Abia-South, Enyinnaya Abaribe, from the gutter. Orji Uzor-Kalu & Enyinnaya Abaribe Abaribe was the deputy governor when Kalu governor Abia State in 1999, but was i…
The ljebus, a major ethnic group occupying almost half of Ogun State, are not descendants of Oduduwa, according to the Oba Sikiru Adetona Awujale of Ijebuland. In an interview with the SUNDAY CONCORD, the Awujale of Ijebuland said their ancestor is Olu-lwa. In the past couple of years, th…
...“Should the children of Ifa worshippers (god of divination) wear Ifa costume to school as well, etc.?” The Christian Association of Nigeria has urged the National Assembly to throw out a bill before the House of Representatives seeking to legalise the wearing of hijab in the country. G…
The Senator representing Imo West senatorial district and former governor of Imo state, Rochas Okorocha, yesterday, said that the time is ripe for a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction to emerge. Rochas Okorocha Okorocha said, “I have read in between lines of your submission. That …
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. -Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru has warned that the Nigerian Army will soon clamp down on separatist agitators such as Sunday Igboho and Asari Dokubo. Lt. -Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru According to PM News, Attahiru’s warning was delivered in Uyo at the first Command…
Three years and five weeks since her abduction in Dapchi, Yobe State, a United States-based group, US-Nigeria Law Group, has lamented the plight of the abandoned Dapchi "heroine Christian" schoolgirl, Leah Sharibu, with a report she has given birth to a second child in captivit…
Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has faulted the Federal Government’s approval of $1.5 billion for the renovation of the Port Harcourt refinery. Muhammadu Buhari & Atiku Abubakar According to him, budgeting the amount for the renovation of a refinery at a critical period of in…
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, says there will be no more Nigeria if his Benue State counterpart, Samuel Ortom, is assassinated. Wike also said the Presiden Muhammadu Buhari and his All Progressives Congress will be held responsible if Ortom is killed. Wike stated this wh…
I read Farook Kperogi’s brilliant (as usual) piece, ‘Hijab As Red Meat Of Bigotry’, and while he made some very compelling arguments, there were one or two things I disagreed with. Professor Kperogi says, it is not unreasonable for Muslims to wear hijabs at Christians schools, since they …
