Asiwaju Bola Tinubu absent as Buhari, APC meet

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday led other top government officials elected on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress to a meeting of the party’s national caucus.
The meeting was held at the new Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Eight killed as strange disease ravage Kano

A strange disease has ravaged Dungurawa village, in Dawakin Tofa Local Government Area of Kano state, claiming 8 lives.

Residents told The Nation on Monday that the strange disease started about a week ago in the community and has created panic as it claims lives almost on a daily basis.

15 Incredibly Heart-Healthy Foods

Heart disease accounts for nearly one-third of all deaths worldwide . Diet plays a major role in heart health and can impact your risk of heart disease.

In fact, certain foods can influence blood pressure, triglycerides, cholesterol levels and inflammation, all of which are risk factors for heart disease.

This article takes an in-depth look at 15 foods that you should be eating to maximize your heart health.

1. Leafy Green Vegetables.

Meghan Markle's father 'will fly in from his retirement community in Mexico to walk her daughter down the aisle'

 

Meghan Markle’s reclusive father will walk her down the aisle, a close friend has told The Mail on Sunday.

After months of speculation about whether retired Hollywood lighting director Tom Markle will be by his daughter’s side in Windsor Castle, one of his closest confidantes last night confirmed: ‘He will.’

Northern groups’ communique on issues affecting region

The Summit of Northern Groups was held at Arewa House, Kaduna on Saturday, 24th March, 2018.
It was convened to assess the security, economic and political circumstances of the North and Northern communities in other parts of Nigeria.

Specifically, it reviewed the worrying state of insecurity “under which virtually all Northerners live”.
It also deliberated the “worsening economic fortunes” of the vast majority of Northerners and the options that are available to the North as it prepares for the next general elections.

Read full text of communique issued at the end of the meeting:

60 roads completed in Abia-Ikpeazu

Abia Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, said his administration had constructed 60 roads across the state since inauguration in 2015.
Ikpeazu stated this at the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum in Abuja, and said that the roads comprised rural, intra-state and inter-state routes.

INEC is this for real?

If this Voters card is for real, things could go south with the general election coming up next year. What is your take?

Last Northern male white rhino dies in Kenya

The world's last surviving male northern white rhino has died after months of poor health, his carers say.

Sudan, who was 45, lived at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya. He was put to sleep on Monday after age-related complications worsened significantly.
His death leaves only two females - his daughter and granddaughter - of the subspecies alive in the world.

Finalist of Kogi State University hit by a car

A final year student of Kogi State University ended her final exam jubilation in pains. According to reports, the young lady a final year student with the Department of Sociology, Kogi State University, had her leg crushed by a fellow student.

She was jubilating with her colleagues when the sad incident happened.....

Anambra teacher calls off marriage with own sister, gives reasons

The mathematics teacher, Chiadikobi Ezeibekwe, who recently wedded his 17-year-old blood sister in Osuofia, Ekwulobia area of Aguata LGA of Anambra State, said he has been prevailed upon to call off the ‘unholy’ marriage.

Before now, he had told reporters that he was of the Sabbath sect, and that he received direct instructions from God to ‘marry’ his sister.

Acaprenuer initiative (The paradigm shifts)

Comr. Nwaozo C. Victoria  Assit. Sec Gen. Student Union Government FUTO,  host the shifts conference, as it hit Owerri on Saturday 17th March 2018 with a powerful and empirical conference to encourage, motivate and inject a tool of self actualizing, self branding in shaping the youths to scale through the huddle of reaching their goals. The event was graced by personalities from all works of life, while dignitaries in attendance were Mrs Ezejuru Eze wife of the Vice Chancellor Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Imo State, Sir Izuchukwu Obani CEO Izban Logistics, Mr Frank Nneji CEO ABC Transport company, and host of others. More pictures after the cut. 

Buhari skips order of elections in talks with Saraki, Dogara

There were indications last night that the order of the 2019 general election was not one of the issues President Muhammadu Buhari discussed with the Senate President Bukola Saraki, House of Representatives Speaker Yakubu Dogara and other leaders of the National Assembly at a meeting they held on Thursday night.

North Korea says willing to hold talks with U.S. and halt nuclear pursuit while negotiations last: South

North Korea is willing to hold talks with the United States on denuclearization and will suspend nuclear tests while those talks are under way, the South said on Tuesday after a delegation returned from the North where it met leader Kim Jong Un.

North and South Korea, still technically at war but enjoying a sharp easing in tension since the Winter Olympics in the South last month, will also hold their first summit in more than a decade next month at the border village of Panmunjom, the head of the delegation, Chung Eui-yong, told a media briefing.
"North Korea made clear its willingness to denuclearize the Korean peninsula and the fact there is no reason for it to have a nuclear programme if military threats against the North are resolved and its regime is secure," the head of the delegation, Chung Eui-yong, told a media briefing.