The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has congratulated Rev. Daniel Okoh, on his emergence as the new president of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). Rev. Okoh was elected on Monday to succeed Rev. Samson Olusupo Ayokunle. In a statement, Tinubu noted that the new CAN leader who is […]
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have invaded Abaa, a community near the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, and abducted two persons. Our correspondent gathered that the gunmen stormed the community which is located in the Surulere Local Government Area of Oyo State on Thursday night and whisked away their victims, a hotelier, and […]
Renowned Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has condemned the position of the Federal Government regarding media reporting and coverage of the lingering insecurity in the country. He specifically faulted the government’s plan to sanction the BBC Africa Eye and Daily Trust for their recent reports which he said exposed the politics of insecurity, the […]
The burden of under-recovery for fuel subsidy cost borne by the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Limited, and hence its inability to remit into the federation account, is a major factor worsening the prevailing acute scarcity of the dollar driving the continued depreciation of the naira. Other factors include increased forex demand for summer […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, narrated before an Abuja High Court sitting at Maitama, how the suspended Accountant-General of the Federation, AGF, Ahmed Idris, and two others pilfered about N84.7billion of $2.2 billion meant for nine oil producing states. The anti-graft agency told the court that the former AGF and his […]
No fewer than 131 airlines registered to operate in Nigeria’s domestic airspace under scheduled and non-scheduled flight have gone into extinction largely due to hostile operating environment as well as bad management. Scheduled flights are those which get their schedule approved by the aviation regulator in advance for a period running into months. Non-scheduled […]
Borno State Governor Professor Babagana Umara Zulum has expressed fears that dwindling resources and poverty, if not tackled, may force some Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) to join Boko Haram and its splinter group–the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters. The governor, who made this known yesterday during the closure of the Dalori-1, Dalori-2, […]
. The Nigerian Army has redeployed senior officers in a major reshuffle that affects some principal staff officers of the Army Headquarters, General Officers Commanding (GOCs), corps commanders, commandants of training institutions, brigade commanders, and commanding officers, among others. This comes amid the renewed attacks by terrorists and other armed non-state actors, as well as […]
An unknown number of soldiers were said to have been killed on Thursday night by Boko Haram terrorists stormed an Army checkpoint around Zuma Rock, the border between FCT and Niger State. Sources said the terrorists arrived Zuma Rock on the axis of Madalla and Suleija along the Abuja-Kaduna highway, at about 8.30p.m., and […]
A statement yesterday by Christopher Clark, on the family’s behalf, said the deceased was Nigeria’s Ambassador to Ethiopia and Permanent Representative to the Organisation of African Unity, Ambassador to Switzerland and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Nigerian Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, New York. The statement partly read: […]
