Boko Haram fighters detained hundreds of women and children at a school in the northeast Nigerian town of Baga after a massive attack earlier this month, one woman who was freed told AFP.

ONITSHA—Two policemen, including an Inspector, have been detained for allegedly shooting an Army officer during an argment.

AFP photographer Asif Hassan was shot Friday while covering an anti-Charlie Hebdo protest by religious party activists outside the French Consulate in Karachi, but appeared to be out of danger following surgery.

Chad’s parliament voted Friday to send armed forces to Cameroon and Nigeria to fight Boko Haram a day after President Idriss Deby Itno announced his intention to join the fight against the Islamists.

The Defence headquarters yesterday waved aside CNN report indicating that soldiers prosecuting the war against Boko Haram terrorists were disorganized hence the inability to defeat insurgency.

Gordon Brown, UN special envoy for education, on Thursday urged the world to condemn the use of young girls as suicide bombers by Islamist group Boko Haram, calling it “barbaric.” “The whole world must unite to condemn Boko Haram’s new barbaric low with their evil use of young girls as suicide bombers to carry out […]

All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), yesterday, in Abuja, said APC government would not only initiate policies and programmes that would impact positively on the lives of youths and women, if voted into office, but would also provide the necessary military equipment and personnel to end insurgency in the country.

LAGOS—All Progressives Congress, APC, Lagos governorship candidate, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, his People’s Democratic Party, PDP, counterpart, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, National Conscience Party, NCP, governorship candidate, Mr. Ayodele Akele and six other candidates vying for the state governorship seat, yesterday, disagreed over the tax regime, the challenges confronting education and other issues bordering on the development of the state.

ABUJA— Military authorities, yesterday, said 78 Boko Haram insurgents were killed during the two-hour gun battle with the insurgents who tried to capture a military base in Biu, Borno State, Wednesday.

Finally, the bubble burst on Tuesday, January 13 in Akure, the Ondo State capital, as some politicians known as the Agagu Boys defected from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC.

A businessman, Rasheed Ogunwande, yesterday, made an impassioned plea at a Yaba Customary Court to dissolve his 10-year-old marriage on the grounds of drunkenness.

Enugu State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has dismissed report accusing the PDP of violating a purported court order restraining it from recognising Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi as the party’s governorship candidate in the state.

LAGOS— MIXED reactions, yesterday, greeted the peace pact signed by Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, President Goodluck Jonathan and that of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Maj-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd).

Abuja— The African Development Bank, AfDB, said yesterday that it would undertake a N50.4 billion integrated infrastructure development projects in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, this year. The bank’s Country Director, Dr Ousmane Dore, said this during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, in Abuja. Dore said the projects included the provision […]

Being a paper presented by Imam Ridwan Jamiu, LL.B, LL.M (Chief Imam, Lekki Central Mosque, Lekki Scheme l, Lagos) at Lekki Muslim Ummah workshop las Sunday.