Airtel alleged illegal lottery: Court joins NCC as defendant
A Federal High Court in Lagos has joined the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, as a defendant in a suit seeking to revoke the operating licence of Airtel Nigeria Limited for allegedly operating...
View ArticleBoko Haram: A people's alternative to peace
... by the French and allied forces. Borno had made efforts to expand its purist Islamic norms to the other parts of Nigeria or the Northern hemisphere. For instance, in the autumn of 1825, Bornu...
View ArticleStudent arrested over alleged killing of 2 prisons officials
A FINAL year Physics student of the Delta State University, Delsu, Abraka, has been arrested by men of the 3 Battalion, Nigeria Army Effurun, Warri Ebruke Oghenekohworho, 34, was arrested in connection...
View ArticleNigeria's Impending Debt Trap
... the Federal Government not to allow "present and unborn generations inherit the heavy burden of foreign debt since Nigeria is currently in big danger because of it." Similarly, Director-General of...
View ArticleNigeria: Tackling the Nation's Dependence On Imported Rice
... the pack of wasters. The most current figures from the Federal ministry of Agriculture reveal that on the average, Nigeria spends N1billion every 24 hours to purchase rice for her citizens to keep...
View ArticleNigeria: Dozens feared killed in Kano motor park blast
KANO, : A suicide car bomber detonated himself in Nigeria's northern city of Kano on Monday, with dozens of people feared dead in the attack, local residents and military spokesperson told Xinhua.
View ArticleBoko Haram blasts in Nigeria kill at least 20
A series of blasts targeting buses full of passengers in Kano, Nigeria has killed at least 20 people and sources say the toll is expected to rise.
View ArticleNigeria to slash state debt
Nigeria would take steps this year to slash domestic debt from 6.35 trillion naira currently because of high servicing costs driven by interest rates of around 11 percent, the finance minister of state...
View ArticleNigeria suspends operations of Indian-owned Dana Air
Nigeria has suspended operations of Dana Air, an Indian-owned commercial passenger carrier, after the country's parliament complained of the airline's shoddy manner of paying compensations to victims...
View ArticleSuspended sentence sought for Okah
... Nigerian terrorist Henry Okah says he should be given a suspended sentence. Tony Nnadi, a lawyer based in Lagos, Nigeria, and the secretary-general of the Lower Niger Congress, told the...
View ArticleAt least 25 die in blasts in Nigeria
... a digital-only subscription for unlimited access to the E-Edition via computer and iPad. Subscribe today! KANO, Nigeria - Five explosions at a bus park in northern Nigeria's main city of Kano...
View ArticleDeath toll from Nigeria bus station attack at least 22
LAGOS: An attack that saw two suicide bombers ram their car into a bus station in northern Nigeria has killed at least 22 people and wounded dozens more, police said Tuesday.
View ArticleNigeria lifts flight suspension of Dana airlines
Nigeria's Aviation Ministry has lifted a brief flight suspension against Dana Air, the airline involved in the country's deadliest plane crash in the last 20 years.
View ArticleSuicide car bombing kills at least 22 in Nigeria
... Buffalo Bill and Doc Holliday as native sons, where treasured guns are routinely passed from generation to... KANO, Nigeria (AP) - Police say at least 22 people have died in a suicide car bombing...
View ArticleSuicide car bombing kills at least 22 in Nigeria
Police say at least 22 people have died in a suicide car bombing that struck a bus station in northern Nigeria's busiest commercial center.
View ArticleSultan's amnesty therapy: Playing hand of Esau,voice of Jacob
... have become addicted to being economical with the truth, is that by the Fulani jihad thesis of Uthman bin Fudi, for Nigeria to have an all-time peace and security, it must wear the political and...
View ArticleAfrica: Development or De-Industrialisation - A New Look At Chinese...
... interest for decades. At a deeply personal level, my own first contact with China was almost romantic. My father was Nigeria's Ambassador to the Peoples' Republic of China in the early seventies...
View ArticleNigeria: FG May Appeal Judgement On Oil Sector Deregulation
... held that the federal government's deregulation policy of the downstream sector of the petroleum industry in Nigeria was unconstitutional, null and void. A Lagos-based lawyer, Mr. Bamidele Aturu,...
View ArticleNigeria: Reps Commend CBN for Contributions to National Growth
The House of Representatives yesterday commended the Central Bank of Nigeria , Federal Road Safety Commission and Nigerian Television Authority for complying with the provisions of the Fiscal...
View ArticleNigeria: 166 Feared Dead in Boat Accident
A boat traveling from Oron in Akwa Ibom State to Malabao in Equilateral Guinea, yesterday, capsized at the Calabar Waterways with no fewer than 166 passengers feared dead.
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