Beyond the Headlines
Award -winning investigative journalist , ‘ Fisayo Soyombo , has been named winner of the Local Reporter category of the 2020 Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism . Soyombo won the award for his undercover investigation on Nigeria ’ s criminal justice system after five attempts . The freelance journalist spent two weeks in detention […]
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, said Nigerians and Africans must comply with tenets of multi- party democracy since they have accepted the form of government . According to a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity , Femi Adesina , the President spoke while receiving the President of the Republic of The Gambia, […]
Borno State Governor , Babagana Zulum, on Thursday, received a delegation of the Cameroonian military at the Government House in Maiduguri , the state capital. At the meeting , the governor tasked the Cameroonian delegation on the need for Nigeria and Cameroon to team up to defeat the Boko Haram terrorists . The Cameroonian military […]
The Nigeria Police Force has extradited Abdulrashid Abdullahi Maina, former chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT) on Thursday to Nigeria from Niamey, Niger Republic, where he was arrested having been declared wanted by a court of competent jurisdiction over a pending criminal trial against him. The force’s spokesperson ,DCP Frank Mbah said this […]
The Defence Headquarters says the decision to engage mercenaries to assist the military in defeating the Boko Haram insurgency is squarely for the Federal Government to take. It noted that the security forces cannot challenge the initiative , stressing that it was up to Nigerians and the government to contract the private army . Following […]
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The Osun Stage High Court sitting in Osogbo, the state capital on Thursday acquited a nurse, Alfred Aderibigbe who was charged for murder of late Senator Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke. Senator Isiaka Adeleke during his lifetime was suffering from ‘gout’, a form of arthritis characterised by severe pain and the nurse treated him at his residence […]
The defence Headquarters has dismissed the claim by the Boko Haram terrorists that the recent massacre of rice farmers in Borno was retaliation for the arrest of one of them. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, said this while giving update on the operations of the armed forces between Nov. 26 and Dec. […]
Senator Ibrahim Shakarau says President Buhari is breaking the law by retaining the current Service Chiefs. Following the massacre at Koshebe in Borno State, many Nigerians renewed calls for the sacking of the Security Chiefs, saying that the present military leadership has failed to perform. Mr. Shekarau who was a guest on Channels Television’s Sunrise […]
Lai Mohammed, minister of information, says citizens in the north-east are no longer paying tax to Boko Haram. Speaking at a meeting with the Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigerian (NPAN) in Lagos on Thursday, Mohammed said the occupation of territories in the country by insurgents is now “a thing of the past”. But the minister’s […]
