Nigerien leader calls for new military intervention in Libya
The President of Niger, Mahamadou Issoufou, has called for a new international military intervention in Libya, under UN supervision, to neutralise the rampaging militias.
30,000 polling units: JEGA’s contradictions and defiance
In his recent contradictory statements in the Guardian newspaper ofTuesday October 23, 2014, Professor Attahiru Jega appears intent upon fomenting conflict with his new polling unit allocations, which he appears besotted with irrespective of informed advice to the contrary from the Senate, security agencies, INEC Commissioners, and the political parties’ chairmen he sought their views at a meeting he convened. This is in addition to his defiance of an on-going matter in court instituted by a political party.
Buhari and the politics of fear mongering
FORMER military dictator and presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, APC, General Muhammadu Buhari, is continuing his trademark politics of bitterness, blackmail and fear mongering.
Croatian war veteran sets himself on fire at protest
A Croatian war veteran was rushed to hospital after setting himself on fire during a protest by former soldiers outside a government ministry, hospital and police said Tuesday.
10 people died from road accidents in Osun
The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) in Osun says 10 persons died from road accidents in the state in September.
Saleswoman, 21, bags 1 year for N3.7m theft
A Somolu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Tuesday sentenced a 21-year-old saleswoman,Chinyere Eze, to one year imprisonment for stealing N3.7million belonging to her employer.
