Fire razes Balogun market again
For the second time in three months, traders in Balogun market again had their shops razed in an early fire outbreak on Wednesday in Lagos. The inferno destroyed goods valued at several millions of naira. A correspondent who visited the market, reports that the fire which affected lock-up shops, was first noticed at the back of a building housing a commercial bank.
Be magnanimous in victory, Obasanjo tells Buhari
Former President Olusegun Obasnjo on Wednesday advised the President -Elect, Muhammadu Buhari, to demostrate magnanimity over his victory in the Saturday’s presidential election. Obasanjo gave the advice in abeokuta in his congratulatory message to Buhari. The former president noted that Nigeria’s political system was unnecessarily overheated by politicians.
Presidential poll: Ban Ki-Moon congratulates Buhari
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has congratulated President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2015 general elections. Ban in a statement issued on Tuesday night in New York, said he had spoken to Jonathan and Buhari on the outcome of the polls as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Emerhor and the imperative of progressive governance
MAJORITY of Deltans have come to see the emergence of Olorogun Otega Emerhor as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the most salutary thing to have happened to Delta State since 1999. Their optimism about Emerhor’s political stance and fortune derives from the stark reality of underdevelopment which successive governments foisted […]
Boko Haram puts Lake Chad’s boatmen out of business
Hunched up in the prow of his canoe, Mahamat simply watches time slip by, like dozens of boatmen in Guite on Lake Chad who no longer dare sail for fear of Boko Haram fighters. “We’re here, but we do nothing. We don’t have work any more,” the Chadian sailor says in a resigned tone, looking wearily over at a group of men seated on the ground, playing cards. The ruthless Islamists of the Nigerian sect have brought such insecurity to Lake Chad that most trade among the four countries whose borders meet there — Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon and Niger — has dried up for months.
Why death penalty should be abolished in Africa
CAMPAIGNING for an end to death penalty is often an uphill task. At Amnesty International, we have done so for decades, since we consider the death penalty to be the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading form of punishment – and a violation of the human right to life. Every execution we fail to prevent takes […]
