Nigeria’s police have dispersed protesters calling for the creation of a breakaway state of Biafra. Members of Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) had converged for a demonstration in the south-eastern city of Enugu before police intervened.
Security forces have shot dead a lion that escaped from a wildlife park this morning in the Nigerian city of Jos. It was killed in the vicinity of the park after attempts at recapturing it failed.
President Muhammadu Buhari will today leave Nigeria for Johannesburg, South Africa to attend the Forum on China/Africa Cooperation (FOCAC). He will at the forum, which begins tomorrow, follow up with his last meeting with Chinese […]
Operators and stakeholders in the media industry, particularly those in the print segment are losing sleep over likely closure and subsequent loss of jobs. And they have reasons to be so afraid. For one, the […]
A Bill making it an offence to write a petition against a public officer without a sworn affidavit, scaled second reading yesterday in the Senate. The bill, entitled: “An Act to prohibit frivolous petitions and […]
Chairman of Bi- Courtney Aviation Services Limited Dr Wale Babalakin yesterday canvassed zoning of airports as a template for their concession. He broke the airports zonal structure into Lagos, Abuja, Kano and Port Harcourt.
FORMER National Security Adviser (NSA) Sambo Dasuki has made some “mind-boggling” revelations on the $2billion “phoney” arms contracts, a source said yesterday. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and a Federal Government committee are […]
ABUJA — The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has assured that the current fuel scarcity in the country will be over in a matter of days, following the approval of the subsidy […]
LAGOS—As the Yuletide activities kicks off nationwide, Lagos State Government, through the state Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, has urged parents and guardians to warn their children and wards to desist from the use of fireworks, […]
ABUJA—THE three-week-long pro-Biafra protests turned bloody, yesterday, as the Joint Military Task Force (JTF) killed nine of the protesters and injured 18 in Onitsha, the commercial city of Anambra State. Irked by the stubborn disposition […]
Mike Ozekhome, the lawyer to Raymond Dokpesi, founder of Daar Communications, Raymond Dokpesi, has said he was not aware his client received money from the office of the former National Security Adviser, NSA, Sambo Dasuki. […]
Nigeria’s central bank Governor Godwin Emefiele is at risk of losing credibility over a decision to ease monetary policy, while maintaining currency restrictions that are hurting the economy. Emefiele, 54, reduced the benchmark interest rate […]
DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Hundreds of schools in northeast Nigeria have reopened for the first time in a year and a half, though many teachers and pupils are reluctant to return because of persistent […]
With a population in excess of 21 million, Lagos is arguably the largest city in Nigeria. In fact, it is the second most rapidly growing urban area on the African continent after Abuja, the capital […]
Terrorists have killed no less than 10, 000 Nigerians, while two million others have been displaced since the beginning of the Boko Haram insurgency in 2009. The preceding statistics were provided by President Muhammadu Buhari […]
Nigeria’s criminal justice system has often been criticised and ridiculed for its inability to secure convictions, particularly for offences perpetuated by high profile individuals. Yet, one recalls the case of a young man, Kelvin Ighodalo, […]
LAGOS—Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, yesterday said that the Federal Government is set to privatise the petroleum products pipeline network in the country to minimise the issue of perennial vandalism and […]
The Minister of Interior, Lt. Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (retd.), has ordered the reversal of special promotion to 30 Nigerian Immigration Service personnel. The promotion was carried out by the Civil Defence, Fire, Immigration and Prisons […]
Several members of Boko Haram were killed by the Nigerian troops in Gulak town of Madagali Local Government Area of Adamawa State, Mallam Lawal Kanuri, the village head of Krichinga told journalists on Tuesday. He […]
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