There was a massive traffic jam yesterday on the Lagos airport road – no thank to a planned security breach tip-off. Security was strengthened around the Murtala Muhammed Airport – Nigeria’s busiest and biggest – where tougher screening measures have been taken, particularly at the cargo section. Nigeria Customs Service, the police, State Security Services…
A human rights group named Paths of Peace has accused Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, of defrauding police officers of billions of millions of naira in a dubious investment scam.In a petition to the Senate, the group demanded that Mr. Abubakar be probed over the alleged multi-billion-naira scheme that reportedly affects every police…
THE Army authorities, yesterday, in Lagos, said the Lance Corporal who was knocked down and killed by a BRT bus along Ikorodu Road last Friday, was not riding motorbike on the BRT lane as widely reported. Rather, the deceased, according to the Army, was crushed to death on the normal lane plied by other motorists,…
Expectation of an early end to the indefinite nationwide doctors’ strike was dashed yesterday, following failure of the Federal Government and the Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, to reach an amicable agreement, as the Senate waded into the face-off.At an emergency delegates meeting held at the instance of NMA on Monday, a holistic review of the…
A fresh oil spill has reportedly occurred along a pipeline belonging to the Nigerian Agip Oil Company,
Professor Ben Nwabueze, a constitutional lawyer and Chairman of the Igbo Leaders of Thought, speaks with journalists after a meeting of the group in Enugu, on a number of issues, including the ongoing national conference, regionalism and the right of self-determination JUDE OSSAI brings these excerpts:What would you say will be the effect of the…
A member of the House of Representatives from Borno State, Mr. Abdulrahman Terab, said on Monday that 80 per cent of the attacks carried out by members of the Boko Haram sect were never reported.Terab stated that unknown to Nigerians outside Borno State, most of the killings and destruction of property went unreported.Terab said such…
By OKEY SAMPSON, AbaTwo Imams and five other members of the Muslim community in Aba, the commercial hub of Abia State, were in the wee hours of yesterday, arrested by soldiers over alleged suspected bombs.According to the former Abia State Amirul-haj and deputy chairman of the Muslim community in Aba, Alhaji Musa Iheakaram, the soldiers,…
As the United States, Nigeria and others struggle to track and choke off its funding, Reuters interviews with more than a dozen current and former U.S. officials who closely follow Boko Haram, provide the most complete picture to date of how the group finances its activities.Central to the militant group’s approach includes using hard-to-track human…
Ahead of the 2015 general elections a Christian cleric and President, Eclectic Network, Rev Moses Iloh has asked President Goodluck Jonathan not to re-contest for the Presidency.In an open letter to the President, Iloh said it is begining to appear thatit is either Jonathan is elected for a second term or there would be no…