Nigeria’s security situation has worsened in recent times with the deployment of military personnel in 28 out of the 36 states of the federation to assist in restoring peace. National Security Adviser NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd), who gave the indication yesterday at the ongoing National Civil- Military Dialogue in Abuja, was however emphatic that…
The Federal Government said on Thursday that it received the news of the removal of Egypt’s President, Mr. Mohammed Morsi, and the suspension of the country’s constitution with grave concern, Morsi was overthrown by the country’s military after days of protest near the Presidential Palace. In a statement in Abuja, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs…
It is evident that the wave of insecurity and terrorism in Nigeria has gone down considerably in recent times but the citizens, particularly those in the northern part, still worry if it is “peace at last”.
Following the security challenges perpetrated by members of the Boko Haram sect, over 15,000 residents of Ashigashiya, Ngoshe, Jubrili and other hilly communities in Borno State have relocated to Cameroun. Our correspondent, who accompanied the state Deputy Governor, Alhaji Zanna Umar Mustapha, with other senior public functionaries to Ashigashiya, Jubrili, Agapalwa, Chikide, Barawa and Khurum,…
Director-General of the National Teachers Institute, Kaduna, Aminu Sharehu, on Wednesday declared that over 80 per cent of primary school teachers in the North were not qualified to teach. Sharehu stated this during a seminar entitled ‘Quality Assurance and Control in Teacher Education as a Tool for Achieving Millennium Development Goals’, held at the Federal…
Commander of the Special Task Force, Maj. Gen. Henry Ayoola, has said his men have killed 100 militiamen that have been attacking some villages in the southern part of Plateau State. He said soldiers of the STF had also secured the entire stretch of the senatorial zone against future attacks. Some gunmen, suspected to be…
The shades of mystery casing the influx of arms and ammunition into illegal hands may be gradually unravelling. Recently, the House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts reportedly beamed its klieg light into the 2010 query raised by the Auditor-General (AG) of the Federation against indiscriminate disappearance of rifles and ammunition allocated to some state…
The 10 Ibadan traders who were killed by Boko Haram sect members in Monguno, Borno State, last Friday night lost N22million cash to their attackers, it was announced yesterday. All was gloomy on Tuesday when the bodies of the Bodija market apprentice beans sellers, who went to buy their goods in Borno – the epicentre…
The Egyptian army toppled Islamist President Mohamed Morsi after a week of bloodshed that killed nearly 50 people as millions took to the streets to demand an end to his turbulent single year of rule. The announcement, made on state television by Morsi’s own defence minister, armed forces chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, drew a…
Australia and Canada have launched a two-year programme to support the Ministry of Mines and Steel Development in developing the Nigeria’s mineral sector in an economically, environmentally and socially sustainable way. The programme is expected to contribute to improved employment, economic diversification and development of small to medium scale exploitation of quarry materials, gems, gold…