MAIDUGURI— Boko Haram has pulled out of two local government areas in Borno State, Gubio and Magumeri, hours after taking control of them on Wednesday  evening in coordinated attacks.

ABUJA—THE Federal Government has directed that the Accountant-General office and National Salaries, Income and Wages Commission should commence the process of including in the payroll sacked teachers of staff schools in the 2020 budget. 

ABUJA—THE Federal Government said, yesterday, that a committee has been put in place to facilitate recovery of N614 billion given to 35 states on budget support.

A confessed murderer linked to a months-long killing spree in 1994 that targeted older gay men was executed Thursday in the US state of Florida.

FOUR prominent Nigerian religious leaders have been elected into the Council of Religions for Peace, a United Nations-backed organisation for global harmony.

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By Peter Okutu The Igbo apex body, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, yesterday condemned the killing of an innocent pregnant igbo woman (names witheld) around Emene in Enugu state allegedly by a fulani herdsmen. In a statement issued in Abakaliki, the national publicity secretary of the group, barr. Uche Achi-Okpaga who stated that the cruesome activities of the […]

NIGERIANS, and indeed Africans may not be jubilating as Syria, Tuesday, moved towards ending its civil war. It took a firm grip of the Idlib Province eliminating terrorists, including those of the al Qaeda-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, ISIS and forcing the remnants to flee. We are not ecstatic because we do not readily make the link between the terrorists being eliminated in Syria and those terrorising African countries like Mali and Somalia.

Say’ll tackle challenges, succour over 3 million IDPs By Gabriel Ewepu Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, CISLAC, and Concerned Nigerians, CN, yesterday, urged the newly created Ministry of Humanitarian, Disaster Management, and Social Development by Pesident Muhammadu Buhari, to work with relevant stakeholder. The Executive Director, Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, CISLAC, Auwal Musa Rafsanjani, […]

I’m was drawn to eccentrics and to difficult, grouchy old folks; and I must confess that I just love Sheikh Ibrahim Yaquoub El-Zakzaky!