President Muhammadu Buhari held a formal official meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday where he assured the world that his administration was stabilising the attacks by herdsmen across Nigeria. Buhari, who gave the assurance at the White House, said that Nigerians were concerned about the resort to arms by some herdsmen. The Nigerian president described the situation in ...

An Argentine woman Brenda Barattini accused of cutting off her boyfriend’s penis with gardening scissors said she was provoked because he showed his friends their homemade sex tape, according to reports. The 26-year-old Barattini, allegedly committed the revenge attack in the Nueva Cordoba area of the Argentine city of Cordoba last November, which left her 40-year-old boyfriend with 90 percent ...

By Casmir Igbokwe Like him or hate him, Owelle Rochas Okorocha continues to mould Nigerian politics with his eccentric acts. His plans and actions stand like a big statue not only in Imo State, which he superintends as governor, but also in the entire country. Recently, the man was at his element. He said he would emerge the President of ...

…as Christians protest nationwide Several churches and worshippers nationwide, yesterday, complied with the directive of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) to protest the wanton bloodletting across the country, with a stern call on President Muhammadu Buhari to end the carnage or forget his 2019 re-election bid. CAN directive to its members to stage a protest nationwide followed the serial ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived Washington D.C. in readiness for a meeting with US President Donald Trump on Monday. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that as a guest of the US Government, President Buhari is staying at Blair House, the US President’s guest house. The Blair House used to be a complex of four formerly separate buildings—but a major ...

The Executive Secretary, Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, Mr. Simbi Wabote, has urged youths in Bayelsa State to protect the Nigerian Oil and Gas Park being developed in Emeyal 1 community in the state. Wabote, who spoke on Saturday during the ground-breaking ceremony of the park, warned against destruction of the facility by community members, particularly the youth. He ...

…consoles bishops, Ortom and others over church killings The former Governor of Anambra, Mr. Peter Obi, has condemned the bombing of the residence of the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo. He also consoled the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria; the Governor of Benue State, Dr. Samuel Ortom, and the entire people of the State as well as the ...

Some unidentified persons have bombed the country home of the President General of Ohanaeze Nd’Igbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo. The explosion, which occurred about 5.30am on Sunday, razed parts of the building at Ukehe town, in Nsukka‎. It was said to have been triggered by an improvised explosive device, IED. Police Public Relations Officer, Enugu State Police Command, Mr. Ebere Amaraizu, ...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to President Donald Trump requesting him to demand from President Muhammadu Buhari during his meeting with him this week “a comprehensive looters’ list and to exercise your constitutional powers under the Presidential Proclamation 7750 to instruct the US Secretary of State to temporarily ban those named on the list ...

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has said he can be Nigeria’s president without visiting the United States of America. Atiku stated this on Saturday during an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation Hausa Service when he was asked how he intended to be Nigeria’s president without visiting the US. He asked whether it was a constitutional provision that one must ...