Breaking News: Gombe Declares 24-Hour Curfew

Gombe State government on Saturday declared a 24-hour curfew on the state capital and surrounding areas after a failed attempt by the deadly Boko Haram sect to capture Gombe metropolis, The PUNCH reports. The military engaged the sect in a fierce battle that lasted over three hours before the capital...

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2015 Presidential Election Ballot Papers Found In London

Ballots meant for the Nigerian presidential election were found yesterday at the premises of a local printer in the Essex area of London. Our sources said the sensitive election materials, which ought to have arrived in Nigeria earlier in the week, were unsecured at the premises of Panther Printing...

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New Leaked Documents Reveal Nigerian Army Board Of Inquiry Tried Capt. Koli For Exposing Ekiti Rigging

New documents exclusively leaked to SaharaReporters authoritatively confirm that Brigadier General A.A. Momoh, the Commander of the 32nd Artillery Brigade, convened a Board of Inquiry (BOI) to investigate Captain Sagir Koli, the conscientious whistle-blower who exposed the 2014 plan by which the Peoples...

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What Christians Should Not Be ENGAGED IN on VALENTINE DAY, By Rev. Fr. Peter Nnanga

What exactly are we celebrating on Valentine Day? We celebrate God's gift of love and friendship on Valentine Day. The Bible say "God is love" 1 John 4:8A true christian should not be engaged in the following acts in the name Valentine Day celebration.1. Drinking to the point of getting drunk and then misbehave.When you drink and get drunk you lose total control of your senses. You will begin to talk...

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Valentine Day Depends Largely On The Choices You Make; So, Make The Right Choice, By Fr Peter Nnanga

For some people, Valentine Day comes with some great expectations and could be a day to take a major concerning one's way of life. For some women, Valentine day is the day they expect to hear from their 'Guy' that long expected and desired request: "Will you marry me?" or "Will you be my wife" and for the guys to get the response from the lady "Yes, I will" . And some ladies who have stayed really...

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International Friendly March: Super Eagles To Trade Tackles With Bolivia On March 26, 2015

The Super Eagles of Nigeria will, on the 26th of March, 2015, trade tackles with the Bolivian National team in international friendly match. The president of the Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Pinnick, confirmed this yesterday on behalf of the NFF. The Nigeria Senior National team was last year...

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Oba of Benin is alive, Benin Traditional council Says - PUNCH

The Oba of Benin, Oba Erediauwa, has debunked speculations which went viral on Friday morning, that he has passed on. The rumour of the demise of the Oba was further fuelled by his inability to personally receive President Goodluck Jonathan, during his February 4 presidential rally in Benin, the Edo...

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“If One Of My Men Is Killed During Elections, I Shall Kill Twenty Civilians, Police AIG Mbu Warns

The newly posted Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 2, Joseph Mbu, on Thursday instructed his men to kill every twenty civilian in next month's elections should one police officer be killed. The controversial police boss made the declaration at a meeting with police of the Ogun State Command...

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Abia 2015: Putting Governor Theodore Ahamefula Orji On Notice, By Chinedu Ekeke

You know the popular line about lies repeated too often beginning to sound like truth? That's the affliction currently plaguing the sitting Abia state governor, Theodore Ahamefula Orji and his deluge of courtiers.Late last year, I saw first hand why the governor mistakes himself for modern day Jesus,...

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Egypt Court Grants Bail To Two Al Jazeera Journalists

Two Al-Jazeera journalists were freed Friday from an Egyptian prison pending retrial, their families said, after spending more than a year in jail in a case that provoked global uproar, AFP reports. A Cairo court on Thursday ordered the release of Canadian Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed, an Egyptian,...

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Revealed: Spanish is the happiest language in the world, Espanians are the most in love

Spain may have crashed out of the group stage of the 2014 FIFA World Cup and thereby not able to retain their the trophy they won in 2010, but the country has been rated as the most loving place to be.In a study carried out, the nation's language was also found out to be the happiest language in the...

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Delta State Governor, Uduaghan, Orders Deportation Of Trainees For Talking To SaharaReporters

About 80 participants in the foreign training component of the Delta State Youth Empowerment Programme (YEP) are now living under constant threats of deportation from their current base in Barbados for disclosing their poor living conditions and other details to SaharaReporters.The trainees were airlifted...

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Isyaku Ibrahim, NPN Chief Financier And Founding Member Of PDP, Endorses Buhari [Full Statement]

Full text of Isyaku Ibrahim's statement:WHY I AM SUPPORTING GENERAL MUHAMMADU BUHARI FOR PRESIDENTLong before I became a founding member and chief financier of the National Party of Nigeria (NPN), I had been a democrat all my life. And so, when the military over threw the civilian government of President...

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Yes, This President Is A Failure; Let Him Show Us One Thing He Has Achieved Since 2010, By Azuka Onwuka

What has President Goodluck Jonathan achieved in the four years and 11 months of his administration since February 9, 2010 when he became the Acting President? Let him show us one thing he has achieved.For example, I just came back from the South-East through the Sagamu-Benin Expressway. This was a...

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Between Jonathan and Buhari - Which Man Stands for The Youth, By Oche Joseph

It was Michael Crichton who said " ‎ If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree" .Knowing what has transpired in the past will provide a glimpse of what the future might hold.To state that young people will play a defining role in...

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A President And The Parable Of The Goat And Yam, By Abimbola Ojenike

President Jonathan was on air again yesterday on the Presidential Media Chat, the occasional show that Nigerians have begun to enjoy only for the hilarity of the President's incoherent jabber on grave national problems to which he does not appear to have answers. Yesterday's (Wednesday) appearance was...

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Urhobo Progress Union In Dilemma Over Who To Endorse Between Great Ogboru And O'Tega Emerhor

The hope for the Urhobo ethnic nationality to join forces to enhance the chances of one of its illustrious sons in the 2015 governorship race in Delta State may have been dashed as the Urhobo Progress Union (UPU), the socio-cultural union of Urhobos world-wide, has failed to reach consensus on who the...

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Jonathan's Coup of Feb 9, 2015 Will Forever Be A Date To Remember. BY Tola Adeniyi

Dr Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan is the President of Nigeria. In addition to the big title of President, he is also the Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Undoubtedly a very big position, Jonathan is the supreme commander and boss of the Nigerian Army, the Nigerian...

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Freshly Served! Nigeria: Time To Consider A Unity Government, By Adekoya Boladale

If there is one thing political events in the past few days has taught us about the up-coming general election in Africa's most populous country, Nigeria, it is the fact that the term 'free and fair' may become too expensive for the country to afford if it eventually goes to the poll come March 28th...

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