A Boko Haram gunman was killed Wednesday in a village in Borno State as troops shot their way out of an ambush attack that left one soldier injured, officials said. The spokesman of the Nigeria army, Sani Usman, a brigadier Read more
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, has said the current face-off between the executive and the legislature is normal in the democracy. Dogara, who spoke to Senior Editors in Abuja on Wednesday, said the nation stands Read more
The management of Egbin Power Plc, Nigeria’s largest power plant, has threatened to shut down operation owing to non-payment of N110billion debt. This may throw a huge segment of the population into blackout. The plant has 1320megawatts (Mw) capacity. Its Read more
International Organisation on Migration (IOM), said 128 migrants, comprising Nigerians and other West Africans, died while crossing Mediterranean Sea to Europe between March 6 and 26, 2017. The UN agency in a statement by its spokesman Flavio Di Giacomo, stated Read more
Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari says the nation’s economy is gradually recovering. Buhari spoke on Thursday while receiving the outgoing Ambassador of the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, Fahad Bin Abdullah Sefyan, in a farewell audience at State House, Abuja. He Read more
The Kwara State Government is to strengthen existing security and peace committees in all 16 local government areas in the State as a way of curbing clashes between Fulani herdsmen and farmers. This was one of the resolutions of the Read more
Amnesty International has called on Uttar Pradesh authorities to bring to justice those responsible for the attacks against African students, saying the blacks in India are living in fear. This was contained in a statement issued by the group on Read more
Femi Falana, human rights lawyer, has called on the executive arm of government to terminate the “rein of impunity” in the national assembly. Falana said this in a statement on Wednesday, while reacting to the controversies that have trailed the Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday changed a plan by which he was due to return to London this weekend for another round of medical treatment, barely two weeks after his return from a hospital there. Instead, his doctors will be Read more
Benue State Internal Revenue Service (BIRS) has sealed off the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, over non-remittance of Personal Income Tax running into N2.3 billion. The Chairman of the board, Mrs. Mimi Adzape-Orubibi, who led the enforcement agent to the Read more