The Lagos State Government on Tuesday said it had delivered no fewer than 10,000 new housing units across the state in the last eight years.

Unarguably, power remains cardinal to the socio-economic development of any country.

This truism, perhaps, explains why President Goodluck Jonathan has placed considerable emphasis on the development of the country’s power sector.

Obiageli Ezekwesili, co-founder of the #BringBackOurGirls campaign, former Nigerian Minister of Education, and former World Bank vice president for Africa, tells Al Jazeera’s Head to Head that Nigerian armed forces have committed human rights abuses in their fight against the violent group Boko Haram in the north of the country. “It clearly does have instances where human rights violations have happened,” she says.

AS hope rises for the rescue of Chibok girls after the Nigerian Army found 298 females in Sambisa forest, the United States, yesterday, condemned a brutal attack during which Boko Haram gunmen killed dozens of soldiers and massacred civilians on a Lake Chad island.

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has expressed commitment to the peace move initiated by elders in the state, led by Chief Afe Babalola (SAN) to find political solution to the crisis between the two factions in the State House of Assembly

The principal suspect in the kidnap of a teenager, who was taken to Libya for prostitution last year, Kelvin Okorie, said yesterday that he gave his cousin out after taking N10,000 from the suspected traffickers.

One year after the abduction of Chibok girls, Nigerian troops, yesterday, stormed the Sambisa forest hideout of the Boko Haram terrorists, and rescued 200 girls and 93 women in a daring operation.

Niger Delta Youth Vanguard for APC has expressed optimism that people from the region will benefit meaningfully from in-coming Gen. Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, saying that the major infrastructural development recorded in the region were executed under the previous regimes of northern origin, who have shown kindness to redress the plight of the region.

SECOND Republic Politician and one of the founders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Guy Ikokwu, has commended leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for closing their door to defectors, who were trooping to the party from the PDP and other parties.

National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has denied ever apologising to Chief Bode George, the erstwhile deputy national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP over his incarceration for alleged contract splitting.

Lagos—Worried by the continued closure of their school, students of the Lagos State University, Ojo, yesterday appealed to Governor Babatunde Fashola to reopen the institution.

The National leadership of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, took a swipe at President-elect, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), describing his banning of African Independent Television, AIT, from covering his activities, as unacceptable and totalitarian.

Lagos—Lagos State Government, yesterday, said the number of accidents involving commercial motorcyclists, popularly called okada riders have increased in the last four months by 34 percent.

Indonesia executed seven foreign drug convicts including two Australians by firing squad Wednesday, causing Canberra to withdraw its ambassador over the “cruel” punishment.

THE destructive attacks in South Africa on Nigerians and other sub-Saharan Africans are tragic and mindlessly wrong. The assaults sorely bruise the objective of inter-African harmony. They also put an eraser to the idyll of progress and domestic tranquility many people saw when gazing at South Africa.