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Facebook activates ‘Safety Check’ after Nigeria attack ….. AL JAZEERA
Facebook activated its “Safety Check” feature in Nigeria after more than 30 people were killed and dozens wounded in a blast at a market in the northeastern city of Yola. Mark Zuckerberg, founder of the social […]
Security
Iran summons Nigerian envoy after Shia clashes ……. AL JAZEERA
Iran has summoned the Nigerian Charge d’Affaires in Tehran to protest against deadly clashes between Shia Muslims in the country’s north and the army. Iran’s foreign ministry called the violence between the military and followers […]
Security
Nigerian military attacks Shia group over blocked road, killing some …… CNN
Kano, Nigeria (CNN)The Nigerian military launched an attack on a Shia Muslim group in one of the country’s northern cities over the weekend, killing numerous people after a military convoy got stuck by a march. […]
Security
Nigerian Shia Muslims protest over military crackdown ….. BBC
Shia Muslims are protesting in six northern Nigerian cities against a military crackdown they allege has left hundreds of their members dead. Many businesses have shut in Kaduna, one of the cities worst-affected by the […]
Politics
Buhari Should Resign If He’s Not Competent, Says Fayose ………. THISDAY
The Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to resign if he has no clue to solving the dwindling economic fortunes and hard-biting poverty pummeling the nation. Fayose , who advised […]
Politics
Recovered funds intact, Magu tells Reps …… PUNCH
The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, told members of the House of Representatives on Tuesday that the leadership of the anti-graft agency did not tamper with recovered funds. […]
CRIME
N31b loot: Jonathan’s camp to seek talks with Buhari ……. NATION
Suspects opt to refund cash for freedom North’s leaders may intervene President Muhammadu Buhari and his predecessor, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, may soon meet over the mind- boggling revelations from the arms cash probe. Former National […]
Issues/Policy
FG may employ jobless graduates as teachers –Ngige …… PUNCH
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, has said all youths in the country are not entitled to the N5, 000 monthly stipend promised by the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government. The minister […]
CRIME
$1.1billion Fraud: British Judge questions Jonathan’s integrity, stops Etete from getting N17 billion …… PREMIUM TIMES
A British Judge on Tuesday refused to release $85 million (N17 billion) to Malabu, a fraudulent company controlled by Nigeria’s former petroleum minister, Dan Etete. In refusing to release the money to Malabu, Justice Edis […]
Front Page News
Politics
How PDP and APC Created New Biafran Agitations, By SKC Ogbonnia
Unlike my father, my mother Esther Oligwe Ogbonnia hardly cares who wins or who loses in presidential politics so far there is peace. Not in 2015! Full of excitement following Muhammadu Buhari’s victory, I placed […]
Economy
Five Thousand Naira is Possible By Ben Murray-Bruce
One of the best policies I have ever come across in Nigeria’s electioneering history is the promised policy of the All Progressive Congress (APC) to pay the sum of N5,000 monthly as Job Seekers Allowance […]
Politics
Goodluck Jonathan was an exceptional president By Femi Aribisala
I WALKED into the east wing of The Palms shopping mall in Lekki, Lagos (popularly referred to as Shoprite); only to be buttoned-holed by a man trying to sell me a Honda Civic parked inside the […]
Politics
Obtainers Unlimited By Olatunji Dare
The word “obtain” has been on my mind lately. Somehow, I had assumed, and was going to assert, that you will not find the word “obtainer” in the dictionary. Out of a sound instinct for […]
Economy
Naira: What’s going on? By Sanya Oni
If the wailing of the business class has not reached the ears of the landlords of the villa, it must be due to either the impervious nature of the walls, or the pigheadedness of the […]
Politics
Dokpesi’s N2.1billion: What’s the Big Deal? By Bamidele Johnson
For weeks now-and it is yet to abate-social media platforms have whooped, mostly, with joy at the arrest of some people in connection with the $2.1billion arms purchase contract scandal. So have drinking dens which, […]
Security
Arms probe: Dasuki set to name more beneficiaries …… VANGUARD
ABUJA — As details of huge funds disbursed by the Office of the National Security Adviser under Col. Sambo Dasuki continue to surface, indications emerged last night that the embattled security czar is set to […]
Security
Nigerian Shia movement leader’s wife ‘alive’ – army …… BBC
The wife of the leader of Nigeria’s main Shia Muslim sect is alive, the Nigerian army says, denying earlier reports that she was killed in clashes with the army in northern Kaduna state. Malam Zeenat […]
Security
Nigeria’s Sambo Dasuki charged over ‘$68m fraud’ …… BBC
Nigeria’s ex-national security adviser has appeared in court, charged over an alleged $68m fraud. Sambo Dasuki was charged on 19 counts of fraud, money laundering and criminal breach of trust at the high court in […]