[New on The Trent] Police Avert Another Bomb Blast, Recovers Car Loaded With Explosives In Kano (PHOTO)
The police Monday said they had averted what could have been another devastating bomb blast in the ancient city of Kano. A statement signed by police spokesperson, Mr. Frank Mba, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), said operatives from the…
MEND Claims Responsibility for Okrika Refinery Blast
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has taken responsibility for yesterday’s sabotage attack on pipelines of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) refinery in Okrika, Rivers State. In a statement today, it said the attack was line with…
Photos: Riots Break Out In Maiduguri
According to reports from Sahara Reporters, riots broke out in Maiduguri, Borno State after a tricycle operator was killed by a soldier. Angry youths in Maiduguri took to the streets making bonfires and blocking major roads. The state of Borno…
Obiano Inaugurates Awka Capital City, Investment Promotions Boards
Two months after he was sworn in as the executive governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano has inaugurated two boards, the Awka Capital Territory Development Board and Anambra State Investment Promotion and Protection Agency respectively to expand the frontiers…
Willie Obiano and Anambra’s Expanding Frontiers of Excellence
Two months after the inauguration of Chief Willie Obiano as the governor of Anambra State, the word on the street is that a wind of change is blowing across the state. From the sprawling commercial city of Onitsha to the…
Shettima’s Aide Slams Asari-Dokubo Over Comment On Chibok Abduction
The comment purportedly credited to a former Niger Delta activist, Mujaheed Asari-Dokubo, over the Chibok abduction has been faulted. Asari-Dokubo had allegedly accused Borno State governor Kashim Shettima of staging the April 14 Chibok abduction of over 200 schoolgirls from…
Traditional Nigerian hunters want to find girls
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Traditional hunters armed with homemade guns, poisoned spears and amulets have gathered in their hundreds, eager to use their skills and what they believe to be supernatural powers to help find nearly 300 schoolgirls abducted by…
Government set to pay unemployed graduates allowance
That’s what a committee at the on-going National Conference is suggesting…for all unemployed graduates in Nigeria to earn a monthly allowance equivalent to the allowance of members of the National Youth Service Corps, which is N19,800. Punch reports that the conference’s Committee…
Photos from yesterday’s bomb blast in Kano
Here are some pics from the explosion that rocked a beer joint in the Sabon Gari area of Kano last night. Eye-witnesses say the bomb was placed in a car and the blast killed at least 10 people. But the…