President Muhammadu Buhari has extolled the virtues of Hajiya Fati Koko, popularly called Maitalla Tara, who passed away at age of 95 years.

In the evening of August 26, 1985, Muhammadu Buhari’s pain was not because he lost out in the power game; his pain was, according to insiders in that high-wire military politics, that those who made him Head of State did not have the courtesy to tell him it was time to step aside. He was simply booted out of Dodan Barracks. And for good humiliating measure, he was locked up and the keys kept away for about two years. According to Ibrahim Babangida who took over, one of the reasons for the coup was that: “It turned out that Major-General Muhammadu Buhari was too rigid and uncompromising in his attitudes to issues of national significance. Efforts to make him understand that a diverse polity like Nigeria required recognition and appreciation of differences in both cultural and individual perceptions, only served to aggravate these attitudes….”

The Akwa Ibom Fire Service Department said on Sunday that it lost property worth N897.13 million to fire in the state in 2015.

The Yobe Government says there is no part of the state currently under the occupation of the Boko Haram insurgents.

Mubi – Normal business activities have resumed in the commercial border town of Mubi, Adamawa, one year after its invasion by the Boko Haram insurgents. The Chairman, Mubi Chamber of Commerce, Alhaji Abdulkadir Musa, said this in an interview on Sunday. “We are grateful to God. Business activities have now resumed in Mubi, we are […]