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Views: Visits 5 By Hon (Barr) Femi Kehinde In this season of an omie and atrophy, it is better to remember with fondest and affectionate memory those people who had made us happy, and had impacted into our lives and essence, through their God given talents. Tesilimi Olawale Ayinde Balogun was one. He lived a 45 years that was laced and filled with soccer. After all, the Nigerian firmament is replete with stories of unsung heroes in commerce, politics, law, enterprise, education, sports, medicine, traditional institutions and so on. Football is arguably the world’s ...

Ring true By Yemi Adebowale Phone 08054699539 Email: yemi.adebowale@thisdaylive.com The leader of the terrorists that abducted 23 students of Greenfield University in Kaduna on April 18 is Sani Jalingo. Everybody knows this. Our security agencies are aware. After killing five of the students, Jalingo repeatedly calls the parents of the remaining students still in captivity, threatening to kill the abductees if the demand for N100 million ransom is not met. This terrorist uses GSM phone to communicate with the distraught parents. Jalingo is using one of the GSM lines our rash Communications Mi...

ON THE GO Out-of-control Chinese rocket debris ‘has tiny chance of hitting Abuja’ Debris from a Chinese rocket is expected to plunge through the earth’s atmosphere this weekend.Advertisement Scientists say it is unclear when and where exactly it will land — but they... Gunmen attack another Akwa Ibom police station — second in one week Gunmen have attacked Odoro Ikpe police station in Ini LGA of Akwa Ibom state.Advertisement The hoodlums set some police vehicles ablaze during the attack which took place in the early... THEN AND NOW: How FG went from threatening to ...

The ACF said in a release that it kicked against the payment of ransoms to the bandits, saying the government must toe the line of negotiations.

We planned to bomb bandits despite risk of killing kidnapped students – El-Rufai “We know it is risky, we know in the process we may lose some of the abductees but it is a price we have to pay," Mr El-Rufai says ADVERTISEMENT The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, on Thursday, said the state government had planned to invade the hideouts bandits even if it meant losing some kidnapped students in the process. According to Mr El-Rufai, that was the plan before the bandits released 27 students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna State. The governor disclosed th...