In continuation of its fight against Boko Haram Insurgents in the North-East, the troops of 7 Division of the Nigerian Army have destroyed Boko Haram camp, killing over 95 insurgents in Galangi and Limanti villages of Kaga local government area of Borno state. The invasion came barely some hours after attack on military and police…
Niger State governor, Dr. Muazu Babangida Aliyu, yesterday said that the 19 northern states’ governors are no longer opposed to the idea of states setting up their own police as advocated by some people in the country. He also advocated the use of the 774 local government areas in the country as the basis for…
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Thursday said that the world was leaving Nigeria behind because of poor education development in the country. The ex-VP spoke in Abuja at the National Dialogue on Education, Good Governance and National Unity organised by the Unity Schools Old Students Association. Atiku expressed regret that while countries like Japan…
President Goodluck Jonathan has been dragged to a Federal High Court, sitting in Kaduna, over his eligibility to contest the presidential election in 2015.The suit, filed by a chieftain of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change, Alhaji Shuaibu Lili and a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Richard Tersoo Mnenga, sought the court…
MAIDUGURI — The 7 Division of the Nigerian Army has said, that three out of the six suspects Boko Haram insurgents arrested at the Maiduguri International Airport Monday, while returning from this year’s Hajj exercise in Saudi Arabia had been released. Spokesman of the Division, Captain Aliyu Danja told newsmen in Maiduguri yesterday that those…
Nigeria is in a chaotic situation now. Almost everything in the country is topsy-turvy. Nothing works here. There is pervasive insecurity of lives and property in the country as armed robbers and kidnappers carry out their nefarious activities in broad day light. Our educational system has collapsed; our crater-marked roads are death traps; and, corruption…
TWO crew members who are believed to be American citizens were reportedly kidnapped from an offshore support vessel while an unknown number
United States on Wednesday reiterated that only military operation would not help Nigeria to overcome the challenges of terrorism, without integrated economic development. The country said Nigeria and West African nations in general needed economic development, improvement in governance, promotion of rule of law and the political will to enforce the law, to overcome the…
Miffed by the continued depreciation of Naira, the House of Representatives yesterday summoned the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Alhaji Sanusi Lamido Sanusi and the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala. The duo are to appear before the House Committees on Finance, Banking and Currency, and National Planning and Economic Development on…
President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday set up a three-man administrative panel of enquiry to probe the embattled Minister of Aviation, Mrs. Stella Oduah, over the purchase of two bullet-proof BMW cars worth $1.6m (about N255m) by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority on her orders. Members of the panel are Alhaji Sali Bello, a former Head…