The Federal Government, yesterday, vowed to unleash the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC and security agencies against promoters of hate speech and songs now raging in some sections of the country. The vow by the Federal Government came as the NBC vowed to apply appropriate sanctions from the broadcasting code against …

  Rapper S-Dot on Tuesday reacted to MI’s position on the law against homosexuality in Nigeria. In a statement posted on Twister, he advised MI to be careful about expressing his opinion on an issue that is contrary to the teachings of the Christian scripture. Earlier on Monday, MI, whose …

Cash-strapped Zimbabwe announced Wednesday that it plans to build a $1 billion university to honour Robert Mugabe, the 93-year-old president accused of brutal repression and bringing the country to economic ruin. The university joins other facilities named after Mugabe including the government’s school of intelligence, a main street in the …

A housemaid was killed by her employers in Pakistan’s Punjab province after being set on fire for failing to repay a debt, police said Wednesday. The incident occurred on Sunday in Nankana Sahib district about 60 miles (95 kilometers) from the eastern city of Lahore. “Fouzia Bibi, the victim, and …

  Pope Francis on Wednesday denounced “shameful” attacks on Christians in Nigeria and the Central African Republic (CAR), calling for an end to “all hate and violence”. “I have been profoundly saddened by the massacre last Sunday in Nigeria, inside a church, where innocent people were killed,” the pontiff said …

The federal government on Monday gave clarifications on businesses that would qualify to enjoy pioneer status under the additional 27 new industries and products approved last week by the Executive Council of the Federation, FEC. The Executive Secretary, Nigeria Investment Promotion Council, NIPC, Yewande Sadiku, told PREMUM TIMES in an …

Police in one location of the western Kenyan city of Kisumu fired live rounds on Wednesday to disperse stone-throwing supporters of opposition leader Raila Odinga, who claims this week’s elections were rigged, a Reuters witness said. Separately, a supporter of Odinga protesting in the Nairobi slum of Mathare was shot …

N47.2 Billion and $487.5 Million in cash and properties have so far been traced to the former Minister of Petroleum Resources in the Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke. This followed painstaking investigations by operatives of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC  These are some of the top properties purchased from …

  A man and his wife, both of whom are policemen, have been dismissed for lying that they had ascended Mount Everest. Husband and wife police officers from India have been sacked after falsely claiming to have reached the summit of Mount Everest. Dinesh and Tarakeshwari Rathod were fired from …

  The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has urged Igbo people living in the North to relocate to their homeland. He spoke in reaction to a newly-released anti-Igbo song circulating in most northern states. Kanu, who gave the come-back-home advice while speaking with journalists in his …