THE United States has advised the Federal Government to adopt the Niger Delta Development Commission’s model for solving the problem of militancy in the Niger Delta to tackle insurgency in the north. US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said this on Tuesday at a press conference on the outcome of the…
THE Presidency explained, yesterday, why the nation’s security forces have found it difficult to completely flush out from their hideouts, members of the Boko Haram sect, who have massacred innocent people and massively destroyed property in the North Eastern part of the country. It admitted that the situation was a complex one. It said the…
Eighteen people were killed in Adamawa and Benue states yesterday in separate attacks by Boko Haram
Apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo yesterday told Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha and constitutional lawyer, Prof. Ben Nwabueze, to desist from claiming to be the mouthpiece of Ndigbo, warning the duo to stop speaking for Ndigbo on any issue. The President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo in Anambra State, Elder Chris Eluemunoh, who spoke to newsmen…
Nigeria’s external reserves has suffered a massive decline to a 10-month-low as the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, increased funding of the foreign exchange market to stabilise the naira. The reserves have come under pressure amid falling revenues from crude oil prices due to industrial scale theft from pipelines and illegal exports as well as…
Frustrated, Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima was in Abuja yesterday to brief President Goodluck Jonathan on the latest attack by suspected Boko Haram members, admitting that the Islamist sect parades more sophisticated weapons and better motivated by their backers to continue to unleash terror on the North-East. The insurgents were reported to have killed over…
Work on the proposed N100 billion Second Niger Bridge is to commence next month. Already, ministry officials said that preparations were in top gear for President Goodluck Jonathan to perform the ground-breaking ceremony on March 15, for work by the concessionaire, Messrs Julius Berger and AIIM to start. Minister of Works, Mike Onolememen had hinted…
The scale of the tragedy that happened at Saturday’s reception for Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State,
No fewer than100 people were at the weekend killed in separate terrorist attacks in Baga and Izge villages of Kukawa and Gwoza Local Government Areas of Borno State. Several others also sustained gunshot injuries and properties worth millions of naira were destroyed by suspected members of Boko Haram Islamic sect. Within the last one week,…
Foreign assets of banks in the country fell by 2.4 per cent to N8.68 trillion in November 2013, compared to a decline of 0.3 and 0.35 per cent in October and the corresponding period of 2012, respectively. This development was attributed to the respective decline of 1.5 per cent and 6.4 per cent in the…