The Senate yesterday, took a swipe on the practitioners in the nation’s information and Communications Technology , ICT sector for the non utilization of their technology expertise in the ongoing fight against insurgence in the country.

LAGOS— The Police in Lagos have arrested a self-acclaimed prophetess, who allegedly set her nine-year‑old daughter ablaze in Epe area of Lagos, during a spiritual cleansing.

The Zamfara Government said on Wednesday that gunmen had killed more than 390 villagers in the the last 20 months as a result of incessant attacks on villages in the state.

President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday solicited international support for his plans for the socio-economic rehabilitation of the north-eastern states after the Boko Haram insurgency has been substantially curtailed

Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers yesterday abducted a woman and her child in the commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra State, even as the state government and security agencies have been boasting that criminal elements are being given hot chase in the state.

Six women were, yesterday, arraigned before a Lokoja Chief Magistrate Court over their alleged involvement in the kidnap of two children of Kogi State House of Assembly Speaker, Alhaji Momoh-Jimoh Lawal.

THE World Economic Forum for Africa, WEFA, in Abuja, the 24th in the series, was a success, even in the gloom of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls, and the further security anxieties that surrounded the event.

Local Government Administration constitutes the third tier of governance in the context of Nigeria’s political structure. Local Governments are regarded as agencies for grass roots political participation as well as apparatus for rural development and transformation.

THE Senate and the House of Representatives have invited the service chiefs and the Inspector-General of Police to appear before them and brief them on the security situation in the troubled states before commencing debates on President Goodluck Jonathan’s request for extension of emergency rule.

THE Catholic Bishop of Awka Diocese, Most Rev. Paulinus Ezeokafor, has urged the Federal Government not to succumb to the demand of the dreaded Boko Haram for its detained members to be swapped with the abducted Chibok school girls, arguing that doing so would amount to promotion of criminality, terrorism and rascality.