Journalist who killed colleagues sentenced to death
A Somali journalist who masterminded the assassination of five colleagues for the Al-Qaeda linked Shebab was sentenced to death Thursday after confessing to their murders, a court in the capital ruled.
Lagos residents advise Olajumoke, bread seller to dress modestly
Some residents of Lagos State have advised Olajumoke Orisaguna, the bread seller turned model, to be modest in her dressing as a celebrity.
Ikorodu schoolgirls kidnap: Security personnel increase in Lagos
Increased presence of security personnel was noticeable in Agunfoye-Lugbusi Village near Ikorodu, Lagos State, on Wednesday, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.
MTN’s earnings plunge over NCC’s fine
South African telecoms giant MTN said Thursday that headline earnings last year fell by 51 percent, weighed down by $600 million it put aside to cover a huge fine imposed by Nigeria.
Vatican cardinal denies attempts to cover up child sex abuse
A high ranking Vatican official on Thursday admitted that he had knowledge of, at least, one priest who misbehaved with boys at an Australian school.
There’s a lot more to learn from ‘IBB’s SAP’ than meets the eye
MOST of us, including those too young to have lived a single day through it, associate the Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) of the 1980s with the darkest period in Nigeria’s economic history. The popular narrative generally considers SAP to have both caused the problems and failed to fix them, laying the blame squarely at IBB’s feet.
