The National President of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, (NUT), Com. Michael Olukoya, on Monday said that the union has lost over 600 of its members to Boko Haram attacks.

STRONG indications have emerged that tomorrow’s plenary session, where the Senate would unveil the ministerial list sent by President Muhammadu Buhari, may be stormy as senators are saying the President must, in line with the constitution, submit himself before the Upper Chamber for screening if he appointed himself Minister of Petroleum.

There would normally be an outcry if a country’s president called his compatriots unruly. But not in Nigeria, where many people agree that Muhammadu Buhari made a fair point. Last week Buhari, a straight-backed, straight-laced former army general, called for an end to the “hustle” that characterises life in Africa’s leading economy — which for […]

A car bomb blast near the southern Iraqi city of Basra and two others north of the capital Baghdad killed at least 25 people on Monday, security officials said.

The Akwa Ibom National and State Houses of Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja Monday reserved judgement in the suit instituted by Chief Inibehe Okori of the All Progressives Congress (APC) challenging the declaration of former Akwa Ibom State Governor, Chief Godswill Akpabio of the People’s Democratic Party,(PDP) as the winner of the March 28, 2015 Akwa Ibom North-West senatorial district election.