SECURITY was beefed up in major cities across the North, on Friday, following threats by the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, also known as the Shi’ite sect, to stage a mass demonstration over the detention of its leader, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky. Read More…
Igbo youths Saturday warned some leaders of the South East zone not negotiate with the Federal Government on their behalf over the mass protests for the actualisation of the Biafran Republic. Read More…
The Nigerian Army has commuted the death sentences it passed on 66 solders earlier this year to 10 years imprisonment. Read More…
National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu has taken President Muhammadu Buhari to task with a call on the number one citizen to remove fuel subsidy without with immediate effect. Read More…
Embattled ex-Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, is on the verge of leaving her present abode in the United Kingdom for the Commonwealth of Dominica where she has reportedly acquired the citizenship. Read More…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC) may reopen investigation into the $180million Halliburton scam in January, The Nation gathered yesterday. Read More…
UMBRELLA body of Christians in Nigeria, the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Read More…
There was a fire outbreak at Spar, a popular supermarket in Lekki, Lagos around midday today. Witnesses of the incident have tweeted several photos of the fire with some providing updates via social media. Read More…
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation to take stance measures against any act of indiscipline from Assistant Directors to Directors level. Read More…
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, has clarified the position of the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government on the payment of N5,000 to all unemployed Nigerian youth, saying the money is not meant for all youths Read More…
Following a petition presented by Senator Solomon Adeola (Lagos West) on behalf of one of his constituents, Sgt. Read More…
Pleading acute shortage of funds, the federal government monday said it would begin a gradual withdrawal of fuel subsidy next year. Read More…
THE Federal Government, on Monday, issued automatic employment letters to 173 ex-corps members into the federal civil service for distinguishing themselves during their service at the primary assignment. Read More…
The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), on Monday, said that the Minister of Transportation, Mr Chibuike Amaechi, had approved the commencement of the Port Harcourt-Aba Mass Transit Train Service. Read More…
The Lagos State Government says two flyovers will be constructed in Ajah and Abule Egba – two of the state’s high-density traffic zones – in 16 months. Read More…
President Mohammadu Buhari, yesterday, stated that the problem of youth unemployment bedevilling the country would become history after the passage of 2016 national budget. Read More…
SaharaReporters just learned that Nigerian soldiers may have killed a wife and a son of Nigeria’s foremost Shiite leader, Sheik Ibraheem Zakzaky, in an ongoing military operation against the sect in Zaria, Kaduna State. Read More…
The Real Face of Jesus
BBC PHOTO LIBRARY
From the first time Christian children settle into Sunday school classrooms, an image of Jesus Christ is etched into their minds.
In North America he is most often depicted as being taller than his disciples, lean, with long, flowing, light brown hair, fair skin and light-colored eyes.
Col. Sani Usman, Acting Director, Army Public Relations said that some suspected members of a religious group attempted an attack on the convoy of Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai in Zaria on Saturday. Read More…
President Muhammadu Buhari has been conferred with an Honorary Doctorate degree of Letters by the Kaduna State University. Read More…
The Chelsea midfielder is being pursued by the Chinese giant and could earn a last big pay day if both parties reach financial agreement, Goal has learned. Read More…
Two families who went to the mortuary of the Benin Central Hospital on Friday to pick the bodies of their relatives received the shock of their lives as the corpses could not be found. Read More…
The National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) is optimistic that the current scarcity of petrol will soon come to an end. Read More…
The New Nigeria Development Company (NNDC), a business conglomerate of the 19 northern state governments, has disclosed plans to commence exploration of oil and gas in the Lake Chad area of North-East. Read More…