Month: June 2014

 Nigeria was yesterday ordered to pay nearly $70,000 (50,000 euros) damages after at least one person was killed and 12 seriously injured during the military's forced eviction from a slum...

 Nigeria and Pakistan yesterday resolved to collaborate on war against terrorism. The two countries are equally poised to improving their bilateral trade from the current below $100 million to $1...

 An Atlanta-bound Delta Airlines flight which originated from Lagos on Monday was diverted to Dakar to make an emergency landing Senegal. Although some passengers in the flight tweeted that it...

 The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has called for the prosecution of military officers involved in the recent harassment on Daily Trust, The Nation and Leadership Newspapers. Also, the Lagos State...

 Armed security operatives yesterday shot teargas at hundreds of students of the Lagos State University (LASU) who stormed the office of Governor Babatunde Fashola (SAN), to protest the hike in...

 The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) yesterday called on the federal government to investigate  some sitting governors over the activities of Boko Haram insurgents and Fulani attacks in the country....

 Baring any unforeseen circumstance, the court case instituted against the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Commissioner of Police (CP), Mbu Jospeh Mbu, by the Abuja BringBackOurGirls (BBOG) group, will come up...

 There was  palpable tension  in Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau State yesterday as  Fulani herdsmen alleged that some unknown gunmen suspected to be Berom youths attacked their cattle taken...

 As delegates to the National Conference continued their debates on the Agriculture Committee’s reports yesterday, a delegate, Alhaji Mahmood Usman, blamed the Boko Haram insurgency partly on the neglect of...

Delegates at the National Conference will forever remember the participation of late Prof. Dora Akunyili with a Greek proverb, which says: “A society grows great when old men plant trees...