A Jos Upper Area Court sitting in Kasuwan Nama, Jos North LGA, on Thursday sentenced an 18-year-old carpenter, Aslam Awal, to two years imprisonment for raping a 9-year-old boy. The presiding Judge, Yahaya Mohammed, handed down the sentence after the convict pleaded guilty to a one-count charge of unnatural offence and begged the court for […]

Governor Simon Bako Lalong of Plateau state has condemned in strong terms the Northern Group which issued an ultimatum to Igbos to vacate the North before 1st October 2017. In a communique released by the Director of Press Affairs to the Governor this morning, Lalong stressed the importance of peaceful co-existence and call the group […]

Youths of Ijaw descent said yesterday that they were willing to work with their counterparts from the middle belt to ensure that Nigeria was truly restructured.  While lauding the reaction of the Middle Belt Youth Council to the threat by some northern youths to evict Igbo people from their land, the IYC said no […]

Tarayar Ekklisiyoyin Kristi a Nigeria comprises of 15 Churches in the 19 Northern states of Nigeria and the Federal capital Territory Abuja have resolved and do hereby state as follows: The ultimatum issued by some Northern Youths to Igbos to quit the Northern states is provocative, and a threat to national security capable of […]

Igbo members of the APC in Plateau State, yesterday, denied claims making the rounds that the Governor Simon Bako Lalong-led administration has abandoned them in its development strides. Chairman of the Plateau APC Igbo, Mr Godson Blue, said the Igbo community in Plateau would not fall into the trappings of mischief makers who he said […]

Members of the Plateau House of Assembly on Tuesday in Jos decried the non-execution of constituency projects by the state government. The lawmakers, at a special plenary to mark the end of the first half of the 8th Assembly, regretted that no constituency project had been executed “in the last two years”. “This is our […]

The Plateau State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board yesterday said only about 200 intending pilgrims have completed payment of the 2017 Hajj fare as approved by the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria . The board however said through its Public Relations Officer, Wada Haruna, that it was yet to fix a deadline for the payment of […]

Culled from SaharaReporters President Muhammadu Buhari was not allowed to see his wife during her recent visit to the United Kingdom, presidency sources informed SaharaReporters on Tuesday. In the stunning disclosure, the sources affirmed that the president has been kept away] from several of his aides and even those bodyguards who supposedly traveled with him. The President’s […]