Boko Haram: Boy confesses to razing houses in Borno village for N2,000
A young man, named, Ibrahim Tilitili was said to have been paid the sum of two thousand Naira (N2,000), to burnt down few houses at Mandara Girau village in Biu...
NIGERIA: Pending political permutations
IT is an unusual suspense that many political stakeholders may not have bargained for. That is, the inertia that has suddenly gripped the Nigerian political class nine months to a...
NIGERIA: ‘Boko Haram, world’s deadliest terrorist group’
PORT HARCOURT—FORMER Head, Counter Terrorism Bureau of the United States, State Department, Ambassador Daniel Benjamin, yesterday, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, described Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati Wal-Jihad, commonly called Boko...
NIGERIA: Memories Of May 29
THE trite debates about its importance apart, May 29 frightens politicians – it annually reminds them of how close they are to leaving office or worse still, the nearness of...
The burden of insecurity on the Nigerian economy
Nigeria’s nominal Gross Domestic Product, GDP, now stands at $509.9 billion, making the nation’s economy the largest in Africa and the 26th in the world, according to the results of...
NIGERIA: Traditional rulers seek support for security agencies
THE Governing Council of National Development Summit of Traditional Rulers, NDSTR, has directed its subjects nationwide to provide adequate support to security agencies and the intervening foreign security agencies to...
NIGERIA: Lagos task-force arrests 200 Sure-P federal task-force officials
LAGOS— No fewer than 200 officials of the Sure-P Federal Task Force have been arrested by the Lagos State Task Force on Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences in their training...
Lagos 2015: It’s governorship or nothing — Sen Solomon
Senator Ganiyu Solomon is a second term senator representing Lagos West Senatorial District. Before then, he spent a term in the House of Representatives, representing Mushin Federal Constituency, where he...
Leaders Sue for Peace, Unity as Nigeria Marks Democracy Day
As Nigeria marks 15 years of uninterrupted democratic rule today, a former Vice-President Atiku Ababakar, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, and his deputy, Hon....
NIGERIA: Fashola, Jakande, Oyinlola, Others Pay Tribute to Otedola
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, and the state’s first civilian governor, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, yesterday paid tributes to late Sir Michael Otedola, who passed on about three weeks ago...