Nigeria: Dozens Killed in Battle Between Military and Suspected Gunmen
A total of 25 people, including police and assailants, were killed on Thursday in a crossfire between military operatives and gunmen in Gashua Town of Bade local government area of northeast Nigeria's...
View ArticleBoko Haram 'was paid hostage ransom'
... the firepower of the group, the BBC's Will Ross in Lagos reports. Over the past week, violence in northern Nigeria has escalated as suspected members of Boko Haram have targeted the army and...
View ArticleNigeria's Boko Haram 'got $3m ransom' to free...
... the firepower of the group, the BBC's Will Ross in Lagos reports. Over the past week, violence in northern Nigeria has escalated as suspected members of Boko Haram have targeted the army and...
View ArticleKidnapping: Living dangerously in Lagos
... inroad to the South-West and Lagos. For sometime now, kidnappers had been on the prowl in the South western part of Nigeria that relatively was not their operational terrain until when they made...
View ArticleJTF kill top Boko Haram commander
BY NDAHI MARAMA, MAIDUGURI Mohammed Chad, a top Boko Haram Commander and an indigene of Marte Local Government Area of Borno State who has been on the wanted list of the Joint Task Force has been...
View ArticleWhy kidnap incidents are rising
... especially, in the area of equipping our security agencies some were of the opinion that the insecurity situation in Nigeria is a product of unemployment in the country. Others suggested that much...
View ArticleWe doubt Shekau's existence - Presidency
... The government must work towards one direction and if there are dissensions; there is problem. We have 36 states in Nigeria, 23 of them are PDP governors and the NGF is headed by a PDP governor....
View ArticlePDP Crises: Tukur sacks Okiro, Gusau, Ida, other aides
By HENRY UMORU, Abuja CRISES rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP yesterday took a different dimension as the National Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur has bowed to pressure and sacked all his aides.
View ArticleGovernor Obi's twilight days at Awka
Whatever has a beginning surely has an end. Whil e the end could be accentuated by the coloration of the beginning, the exactness of the summation varies according to the level of compliance of the...
View ArticleCJ calls for urgent amendment of Arbitration Law in Nigeria
Worried over the increasing backlog of cases bedeviling various courts in Nigeria, the Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory, Justice Lawal.
View ArticleA moment in history
... three interviews with Dr Olusola Saraki which started well after midnight at the Central Hotel Kano. I had taken the Nigeria Airways last flight to Kano and taken the first flight out of it. The...
View ArticleFashola, Jonathan should set up joint military task force - Engr. Abiodun...
... drastic to curb it. Until the government provide jobs and makes it easy for people to feed, then crime in Lagos and Nigeria will reduce. I want to say that when Governor Buba Maruwa was the...
View ArticleSole female competitor rides with the boys at the Miami Beach Polo World Cup
... in London toward the middle of the 2012 season. A few months later in September, she invited him to play in Nigeria. The pair kept in touch. When it came time to put together teams for the...
View ArticleCameron in UK business rally cry
... The whole planet is undergoing the shock of change. I've seen it in Sao Paolo in Brazil, Beijing in China, Lagos in Nigeria - the drive of our competitors is palpable A great global race is under...
View ArticleJAMB holds amid malpractices in Lagos
The examination started in Yewa Junior High School, Diary Farm, Agege, Ikotun High School, Government Technical College, Ikotun and Igando Community High School, around 10: 00am, an hour behind...
View ArticleBaga death toll rises, 228 killed, 4,000 houses burnt - Senator Maina
According to him, despite the widely reported carnage and destruction of Baga, there was much more to the reports on the total number of people killed and houses destroyed in the fishing and commercial...
View ArticleHow aviation authorities grounded Amaechi, Tambuwal at Akure airport - Rivers...
... Also on the flight were the Governor of Rivers State, Rt. Hon, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi; the Director-General, Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), Asishana Bayo Okauru; Kalabari prince and politician,...
View ArticleStop governors before they ruin Nigeria - Jubril Aminu
... from doing what is right for this country. You can see that they have organised to stop anything functioning in Nigeria without them. This is what is happening. "Governors are the ones imposing...
View ArticleJayne Cortez: African American Poet
It was a historic moment last week, when an African American family of Sculptor Melvin Edwards came to Benin, Nigeria with cremated ash of his late wife, poet Jayne Cortez for final burial.
View ArticleTrinity House opens new shop
ON July 18, 2010, former urbane Redeemed Chriustian Church of God pastor, Ituah Ighodalo inaugurated his own assembly, Trinity House, at the Civic Centre, Victoria Island to end a wilderness period...
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