Some Maiduguri residents on Sunday decried the high rate of crime among youths in the area.

The Minister of State for Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika, says the runway and taxi pavement of the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport are in perfect shape.

Again, as it is customary with Nigerians, some online media platforms were recently awash with the disgusting news that Nigerian Army’s special yuletide security vigilance in the Southeast region, code named Operation Python Dance (OPD) has sniffed life out of over 2000 Igbo youths in just one month of its operation.

The Vice-Chancellor, Bells University of Technology, Ota, Ogun, Prof. Jeremiah Ojediran, has advised the Federal Government to increase annually budgetary allocation for education to restore the lost glory of the sector.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in Nigeria ought to be a congregation of revered intellectuals in the country. It is a union which should be the beacon of exemplary leadership and excellence.

No fewer than 2,780 candidates sat for the Nigerian Army 74 Regular Recruits (Course RR 76) examination in Jigawa on Saturday.

Ekiti State Governor, has described the sack of six police officerattached to the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike as “the height of political victimisation by the All Progressives Congress (APC) led federal government just because the policemen were among the patriotic Nigerians who foiled the attempt by the party to rig the Rivers State
rerun elections.”

President Muhammadu Buhari has recommitted the Federal Government to securing the release of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgents, 1,000 days ago.

CHIEF Akin Osuntokun was Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria and Political Adviser to former President Olusegun Obasanjo. In this interview, he opines that unbundling of the federal government through restructuring will address the problems besieging the country. He also bares his mind on the corruption allegations leveled against the Secretary to the Government of the Federation as well as grazing reserves for herdsmen.

The prevailing negative economic environment has had a very adverse effect on the performance of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), the nation’s most important revenue agency, as it collected only N1, 207 , 896, 760, 318. 14 in 2016.

It is only fair that Nigerians who claimed to have elected President Buhari as a man that can rid the nation of corruption should not also become hyper-critical about a result-oriented approach to the hydra-headed monster

Kogi State Government has insisted that the Staff Verification Exercise was the saviour of the State’s economy, saying it was a child of necessity.

CHIEF Olabode Ibiyinka George celebrated his 71st birthday recently. George, a former Deputy National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in this encounter, bares his mind on the state of the nation, the mistakes made by the PDP in the 2015 general elections and the way forward for Nigeria and his party.

A trip is often defined by its urprises, so here are my biggest revelations from six days in Lagos, Nigeria.

Following the invasion of Okpale-Ogege, Edumoga in Okpokwu local government area of Benue State by suspected herdsmen, leaders of the community, yesterday, besieged the state police headquarters in Makurdi, the state capital, to seek deployment of more security personnel to the affected area to avert further bloodbath.