The United States has carried out a strike in Somalia against al Shabaab militants, a U.S. official told Reuters on Monday, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The official declined to disclose further details of the strike. The Pentagon did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
(Source: Channelnewsasia)
Godwin Tsa, Abuja A former governor of Plateau State, Joshua Dariye, will today know his fate as a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) deliver judgment in the alleged N1.162bn fraud trial against him. The judgment will be delivered by Justice Adebukola Banjoko, who had earlier sentenced and convicted the former governor of…
Rose Ejembi, Makurdi Gen. John Malu, younger brother of late Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Victor Malu was on Monday attacked by some gunmen in his country home, Tse Adoo village in Katsina-Ala Local Government Area of Benue State. The gunmen, Daily Sun gathered, stormed the village early hours of the day and wasted no…
Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has declared Tuesday, June 12 ,2018 a public holiday in honour of the winner of the June 12, 1993 Presidential Election, the late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola. In a statement issued on Monday in Ado Ekiti, and signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, Governor Fayose said the…
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…
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…
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