US gives Iraq army 250 mine-resistant armoured vehicles
The United States has donated 250 mine-resistant, armour-protected vehicles (MRAPs) to the Iraqi army for use in its campaign against the Islamic State jihadist group, US ambassador Stuart Jones said Tuesday.
Jonathan squandered $55bn oil money—OBJ
ABEOKUTA—Irked by what he perceived as the frivolous expenditure of the Jonathan administration, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, once again took a swipe at President Goodluck Jonathan, accusing him among other things of squandering $25billion crude oil savings left behind by his administration.
STRIKE: Judicial workers shut down courts nationwide
LAGOS — Judicial workers, under the aegis of Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, JUSUN, yesterday, shut down courts across the country as they commenced an industrial action.
2015 – A year for politics in US
THERE is no denying the fact that 2014 was a year few Americans will be in a hurry to forget. It was a year in which the infamous Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) raised brutality to higher pedestals with the decapitation of innocent Americans and people of other nationalities in the name of religion and other banalities the group claims to represent.
Bauchi auto crash kills 13, injures 4
Bauchi—No fewer than 13 persons were killed, while four others sustained injuries in an auto crash on the Bauchi-Jos Road, Narbodo village in Toro Local Government Area of Bauchi State.
It was further learned that the accident, which occurred around 5p.m., yesterday, involved an Opel Vectra and Toyota Sharon bus.
Nigeria on the brink over price slump, subsidy debacle
The continuous decline in the prices of crude oil in the international market in addition to throwing up a number of challenges for the Nigerian economy, has also brought up yet another controversial issue the issue of petroleum subsidy removal.
