NIGERIA certainly now carries a terrible boil of anguish in the form of Islamic insurgency. Red and swollen with pus from long neglect and impunity, the boil must at this point either burst and bring relief or it becomes gangrenous and grows into something more terrible.

The current state of insecurity in the country caused by the Boko Haram sect will not hamper the free flow of foreign investment in Nigeria, ECOWAS consultant on Multi-National Companies, Dr. Moji Afolabi-Timson, has said.

AS the nation marks another Democracy Day tomorrow, the Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan-led administration in Delta State has scored self high in delivering dividends of democracy to Deltans, but the opposition insisted that there was nothing to celebrate.

THe amendment of the Akwa Ibom State Governors and Deputy Governors Pension Law has stirred controversies but only outside the state. The unions and opposition parties are apparently not bothered by the enhancement of the perks and privileges of former governors and deputy governors of the state.

IT will take a delicate operation to secure every of the Chibok girls back to their home, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and UN Special Envoy for Global Education, Gordon brown, has said.

Nigerian children, yesterday, celebrated this year’s Children’s Day in grief and tears as they embarked on prayers for divine intervention to bring back the over 200 schoolgirls of Chibok, Borno State, who were abducted 44 days ago by Boko Haram terrorists.

Ahead of next year’s general election, Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano State and his Adamawa State counterpart, Murtala Nyako, have begun moves on how to stop President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from victory at the polls.

BY RICHARD UDOFIA The long awaited Lumen Christi television network, LCTN, a catholic TV station in Lekki metropolis is in operation now. The chairman of the Station, Prince Robert Soji, was on ground to commission the operation of the television station in Lagos, recently in company of many serving and retired Catholic leaders and faithful. […]

BENIN—THE Edo State All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday held its state congress with Governor Adams Oshiomhole, explaining that his problem with Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu was that the latter wanted him to unilaterally endorse him as governor of the state in 2016.

The Kogi State Government has urged the National Conference to prevail on the Federal Government to complete the Ajaokuta Steel Complex, which it described as the worst case of an abandoned project in the country.

Lionel Messi and his fellow Argentinian World Cup squad members were subjected to an unexpected anti-doping test on Tuesday, a day after the squad convened for the start of a training camp in the Buenos Aires suburbs.

NATIONAL Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, as parts of effort to address the menace of drug abuse and illicit drug trafficking among Nigerians youths, has launched a Substance Abuse Awareness symbol and Celebrities Drug-free Club.

GOVERNOR Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, has accused students of being the brains behind the high level of crime and criminality in the state.

CAMEROON has deployed some 1,000 troops and armoured vehicles to its border region with Nigeria as it steps up its military presence to counter a rising threat from Boko Haram Islamist militants, a defence ministry spokesman said, yesterday

The mutual suspicion between the Governor Murtala Nyako and the State House of Assembly is degenerating.