A U.S. federal law enforcement official told The Daily Beast that a woman shot her boyfriend at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California on Tuesday. The assailant is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, San Bruno police chief Ed Barberini told reporters. #UPDATE: Area hospitals report receiving patients amid active shooter situation at YouTube headquarters…
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Adie Vanessa Offiong, an editor with Daily Trust newspaper, has won the Health Systems Global (HSG) Media Fellowship. She is one of seven candidates from across the globe who have been considered for the intensive training on reporting governments’ modern health policies and the health challenges facing developing countries. Offiong, the only Nigerian who won…
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Aidoghie Paulinus, Abuja Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will on Thursday, April 5, 2018 launch the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Economic Diplomacy Initiative (NEDI). The event, slated for 3 p.m., will be launched at the Banquet Hall, State House, Abuja. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a statement by its spokesperson, Tope Adeleye Elias-Fatile, made available…
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Emmanuel Adeyemi, Lokoja Palpable fear gripped supporters of Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello when he fell off a moving vehicle, sustaining serious injuries. According to an eyewitness account, the Governor was coming from Abuja in a convoy on Thursday when he reportedly fell off the vehicle along old market, Lokoja. The witness said that Bello, in his…
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Nationwide League One side, 36 Lion Football Club have announced the signing of nine new players ahead of the 2018 season scheduled to kick off on Thursday April 6, 2018. 36 Lion signed exceptional players in the off-season as they prepare another season in the NLO Division One. The duo of Quadry Ajala and Ayoade…
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Rose Ejembi, Makurdi The Benue State Police Command has arrested 30 suspects in connection with armed robbery and cultism with 13 different weapons across the state. One of the suspects is an 18-year-old Aondoana Ator. Ator, a JSS Two student of a secondary school from Ikpayongo community, in Benue, reportedly confessed that he operated with…
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Aidoghie Paulinus, Abuja Nigeria on Monday assumed the one-month rotational chairmanship of the African Union Peace and Security Council (AU-PSC). The Embassy of Nigeria and Permanent Mission to the African Union and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in a statement made available to Daily Sun in Abuja by the Spokesperson,…
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Romanus Ugwu, Abuja The All Progressives Congress (APC) National Working Committee (NWC), on Tuesday, inaugurated a 10-man technical committee to find lasting solution to the contentious extension of the tenure of the current national and state officers of the party. Speaking while inaugurating the committee comprising of no fewer than four Senior Advocates of Nigeria…
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Says it is “a normal thing” Aidoghie Paulinus, Abuja Former Minister of Information and Culture, Prince Tony Momoh, has said that the disclosure of the names of alleged treasury looters by the Federal Government is not in anyway a diversionary tactic from the challenges besetting the nation. Momoh said it was a political decision taken…
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Tony John, Port Harcourt The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Rivers State, has commenced re-registration of old and new members into the party across the 23 Local Government Areas ahead of the June 16, 2018, council polls in state. State chairman of the party, Felix Obuah, who addressed council chairmen and secretaries of the party…
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Fred Ezeh, Abuja Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) has approved the Nigeria Strategy for Routine Immunisation and Primary Health Care Systems’ Strengthening (NSIPSS), which is a proposal that would respond to GAVI’s transition in few years. The board also approved additional $3 billion to enable Nigeria provide routine vaccination for its children over…
• Describes Enugu gov as great leader House of Representatives Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, has extolled the leadership virtues of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, describing him as ‘an established leader’. He said Ugwuanyi is being celebrated widely because of his closeness to the people and effective delivery of dividends of democracy in spite of…
…Laments delay in rail transport Uche Usim, Abuja The Executive Secretary, Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC), Hassan Bello, has commended the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) for their unflinching support towards the take off and sustained operations of the Kaduna dry port, operated by Inland Container Nigeria Limited in Kaduna State….
…Opens 14 new plants Adewale Sanyaolu 11 Plc, formerly Mobil Oil Nigeria Plc, as part of efforts to deepen the use of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) popularly called cooking gas, has increased its investment by opening 14 new plants. The latest investment decision, according to the Managing Director of the company, Mr. Tunji Oyebanji, was…
The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has called for the review of import duty and Customs administration as part of the ongoing tax reform towards enhancing ease of doing business in the country. Muda Yusuf, director-general of LCCI, who made the call in an interview on Monday in Lagos, said import duty on…
NAN The Chairman of Calabar Carnival Commission, Mr Gabe Onah, has expressed sadness over the death of the popular reggae artiste, Ras Kimono on Sunday describing it as “painful.” Onah who expressed his feelings in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Calabar, said that Kimono was a legend. He…
Laide Raheem, Abeokuta For the families of Alhaji Aminu Isiaka and Bankole Isaiah Adeniran, the tragic incident of May 12, 2018, will forever linger on in their memory. That was the day men and officers of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Ogun State command, accompanied by some soldiers, invaded the border town of Ilara in Imeko-Afon…
Noah Ebije, Kaduna Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BOT), Sen. Walid Jibrin has said the party is not in a hurry to reconstitute its board. He said the process would commence as soon as the party meets with the requirement in the amended Constitution of the party. Jibrin in…
Felix Ikem, Nsukka Wherever there is palmwine there is truth, so says a popular saying. From time immemorial, tens of hundreds of rural dwellers, especially in the South East, have depended heavily on palm wine tapping to eke out a living. It is therefore a common feature to see men climbing palm trees to tap…
Sunday Ani ([email protected]) Following a barrage of reports by local and international media about the deplorable and inhuman condition of Nigerians trapped in Libya, the Federal Government of Nigeria, in collaboration with the International Organisation for Migration, arranged to airlift those willing to come back home. The operation led to the repatriation of over 10,000…
Henry Akubuiro In 2017, Hon. Jerry Alagbaoso became a major talking point in Nigerian literature as his reissued literary works made it to the UBEC (Universal Basic Education) reading list, and were circulated in twenty-one states across the federation for use by students in Nigerian schools. Since then, curiosity has been set apace what constitutes…
We don’t know what they’re talking about – Govt Femi Folaranmi, Yenagoa For years now, poverty and squalor have been the companions of the Egbo family from Kpansia in Yenagoa Local Government area of Bayelsa State. But the family believes that, ordinarily, it should have absolutely no business with poverty, if the events of 2004…
■ Randy lecturers on the prowl in universities Gabriel Dike; Bianca Iboma; Fred Ezeh, Abuja; Emmanuel Adeyemi, Lokoja The nation’s tertiary institution has come a long way. Since the establishment of Yaba Higher College, there has been a phenomenal growth in the sector, which now include private institutions. According to stakeholders, these growth and development…
Despite being a green horn in the movie industry, the CEO of Mind Bursters Film Ventures, Emeka Kachikwu, has practically set the social media network buzzing alongside other media platforms with his new movie, Boss of All Bosses. From one geo-cinema region to the next, the highly anticipated movie is indeed gaining grounds among the…
Every President’s public life reveals. It provides an unusual opportunity for understanding the interplay between personality, institutions and what he does with the Constitution which is the ground rule of the country. Three years in office, I don’t think anybody needs to tell somebody about President Muhammadu Buhari’s character, his preferred methods of acquiring power…
Every President’s public life reveals. It provides an unusual opportunity for understanding the interplay between personality, institutions and what he does with the Constitution which is the ground rule of the country. Three years in office, I don’t think anybody needs to tell somebody about President Muhammadu Buhari’s character, his preferred methods of acquiring power…
President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to bring the June 12 imbroglio to a resounding closure is simply a political master stroke. He has declared June 12, the day 25 years ago that MKO Abiola won the presidential election that Professor Humphrey Nwosu conducted, the real Democracy Day. The result of that election was blocked midway by…
There is something morally disgusting that is going on in Nigerian universities. Academic staff members know about it but feel, in a strange way, that it is a part of the unquantifiable reward they are supposed to receive for their services to the university system. This kind of reasoning can only emanate from depraved minds….
Life is an ultra-weird inanimate mass of scary twists and funny turns remote-controlled by a monstrously-creative higher force. Life’s Maker and Giver must be the great-great-grand-grandfather of literature. Imagine the seamless plots, the deafening suspense, and the untold wizardry that combine to weave life so intricately into such delectable art. Forget its untold unpredictability, life…
When an illustrious personage passes on, his death is not mourned but celebrated. This phenomenal human characteristic underlies the celebratory circumstance that had underpinned the epochal translation of Professor Albert Chinualumogu Achebe. The global outpouring of eulogies is a splendid testament to the superlative reckoning and a profundity of aura this renowned novelist of facile…
The agitation for the sovereign state of Biafra is gaining currency by the day. And so is the call for the restructuring of the country. I wrote the story you are about to read in October 2008. Almost 10 years after, our situation has not changed. In fact, it has worsened. Who will rescue Nigeria?…
Where were you when you heard the news of the June 12 annulment? Where were you when you heard that the man you freely gave your votes in the freest presidential poll ever held in this country would no longer be president of Nigeria? Where were you when the hope of the man of hope…
I now know how Prof Wole Soyinka felt, when he got a cable in the early 70s, that simply said “The man died”. This was a journalist Segun Sowemimo – who was brutally beaten, by soldiers on the others of a Military Governor of then Western Region. The reason? An imagined slight. The journalist had…
Our society has never ceased to be a hostile environment, even before the amalgamation in 1914. Before then most of what is known as component parts of our nation were independent kingdoms and empires and if history is true most of them were constantly at war with each other and even till today the story…
Alex and Angela have been married for two years now and the relationship is perfect. But lately, Alex has been having money issues with his wife. Angela is a shopaholic in every ramification; there is nothing Alex says that will make her stop. She makes reckless purchases and when her husband calls her attention to…
