Dialogue with the Islamists now if you want peace! That is the message coming from the highest echelon of the Nigerian Muslim community to the Federal Government. The secretary general of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Dr. Lateef Adegbite, disagrees with those with the position that dialogue is not a viable option to end the Boko Haram crisis.

AHEAD of the July 14 governorship election in Edo State, Governor Adams Oshiomhole, yesterday, kicked off his second term governorship campaign in Benin City, amidst tight security and down pour.

President Goodluck Jonathan warns those heating up the polity on the grounds that he wants to return to office in 2015 to hold their fire as re-election is not on his mind.

Margaret Johnson, a five-year-old who survived the terror attack in Bayero University Kano (BUK), was surrounded by her parents, Johnson and Halima, and three other sisters on her hospital bed at the emergency section of Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano.

The texts, thoughts and views of personalities on the following pages would demonstrate you how the Ahlan Sunnah Lid Da’waati wal Jihad Yaana (brothers), popularly known as Boko Haram, has polarised Nigeria. Two Bishops – Sunday Ola Makinde and Josiah Idowu-Fearon on the one hand – and Dr. Lateef Adegbite, Secretary General, Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, situate their views on three different platforms.