The leader of Nigeria’s Christians called Tuesday on the United States to declare the Islamist group Boko Haram to be terrorists, but a US official said it was more important to address social inequalities. In an unusually blunt appeal by a foreigner before the US Congress, the head of the main Christian body in religiously […]
MKO Abiola was the nation’s elected president. Let that fact be enshrined in the nation’s records, then we would have embarked on one of the tributaries to the amplitude of true national reconciliation”. With those words, Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, spoke on the anniversary of the death of Chief MKO Abiola, the acclaimed winner […]
At last, the National Youth Service Corps has bowed to pressure and rescinded the decision to post 14,850 corps members to troubled northern states. It has directed the affected corps members to report at the NYSC headquarters for redeployment to states considered safe. A statement by the Director-General of the NYSC, Brig.-General Nnamdi Okore-Affia, in […]
NIGERIA will soon have its first female Chief Justice of Nigeria as President Goodluck Jonathan has nominated Justice Aloma Mariam Mukhtar, whose name has been presented to the Senate for confirmation. The present Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Dahiru Musdapher, would retire on July 15, 2012. This was contained in a letter written by President […]
THE National Electoral Commission (INEC) would soon introduce measures to regulate the use of money in politics, its chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega, has said. Jega said on Wednesday, adding that the measures were part of the reform process introduced by the commission. He spoke on the topic “Improving Elections in Nigeria: Lessons from 2011 and […]
Justice Steven Adah of a Federal High Court sitting in Ikeja, on Wednesday, restated his interim order suspending the renaming of the University of Lagos to Moshood Abiola University, Lagos pending the determination of the motion on notice filed by the students. At the resumed hearing of the matter, Justice Adah also restated his earlier […]
THE United States government has said Nigeria deserves effective and accountable security forces to counter violent extremism in the country, as well as a coordinated campaign to deliver economic development. This is even as it observed that violent insecurity being experienced in the country was a barrier to its economic growth. US ambassador to Nigeria, […]
The government of Ukraine has stated its readiness to invest about $2.6billion in the Nigerian Mines and Steel sector Ukraine’s ambassador to Nigeria, Serhii Khanenko, stated this when he paid a courtesy visit to the Minister of Mines and Steel, Mr Mohammed Sada. The ambassador said that Ukrainian investors were ready to inject $2.6billion into […]
The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Azubuike Ihejirika, on Tuesday in Jaji, Kaduna State, said that Nigerians should forget about any talk that the country would break up as the army would continue to fight to keep it together. Ihejirika said this at the parley with retired officers and reunion of Army Infantry Corps as […]
EIGHT months after his indictment for allegedly sponsoring the activities of the Boko Haram sect, the Federal Government, on Tuesday formally began the trial of Senator Mohammed Aliyu Ndume on terrorism charges before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. At the resumed hearing of the suit on Tuesday, the Federal Government called the Prosecution […]
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