Redirect N4.8bn to monitor WhatsApp calls to pay doctors’ salaries, SERAP tells Buhari

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari “to urgently redirect the proposed spending of N4.8bn of public money to monitor WhatsApp messages, phone calls, and text messages of Nigerians and other people, to pay some of the salaries of striking resident doctors, improve their benefits, as well as improve public healthcare facilities for the sake of poor Nigerians who rely on those facilities, and have nowhere else to turn.”
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Nigeria records 111 kidnapping cases in eight months

Since April 2014 after the Boko Haram terrorists abducted 276 schoolgirls from their dormitories in Chibok, Borno State, mass kidnapping for ransom has gradually, become the other of the day in Nigeria.

AMID RISING INSECURITY: Military delays deployment of super attack jets

Nearly one month after taking delivery of six A-29 Super Tucano fighter jets from the United States (U.S.) to aid the fight against insecurity in the country, especially banditry in the North-West and Boko Haram terrorism in the North-East, the military has yet to deploy the aircraft for combat missions.

Strange fire guts Secondary School in Akwa Ibom

A mysterious fire has gutted has Annang Secondary Commercial school, a private School located in Idung Esimuk, Odoro Ikot in Essien Udim local government area of Akwa Ibom state.

Sokoto inaugurates traders executives

By Musa Sokoto Sokoto state traders Association an umbrella of business communities in the state has inaugurated new executives to run the affairs of the Association in the next three years. The state commissioner for commerce Bashir Gidado Jegawa while inaugurating the traders executive said Sokoto state Government would continue to provide enabling environment for […]

OMPALAN hails Buhari over new NDDC Board

THE Oil and Solid Minerals Producing Areas Landlords’ Association of Nigeria OMPALAN, weekend, hailed President Muhammadu Buhari, over new Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, without governors’ interference.

Too early for 2023 politics

IN the more advanced democracies, you only see electioneering activities just a few months to elections. The American presidential system is a little more elaborate, with its system of state-by-state primaries. Yet it does not fully wake up till about six months to the Election Day in November. Political leaders know the importance of spending […]

West’s help against Nigeria’s insecurity

THE Muhammadu Buhari administration, and of course the people of Nigeria, are very fortunate that our traditional strategic partners (Britain and the USA) are now ready to assist us in tackling our multifrontal insecurity challenges. Seven years ago, when the Goodluck Jonathan government sought help to tackle our insecurity which was only active in the […]

Conspiracy against 2023 elections must stop

THE elaborate dramas that took place in the two chambers of the National Assembly a fortnight ago were subplots of a complex conspiracy to ensure that the people’s vote does not count in the 2023 general elections. The two chambers of the National Assembly have passed two different versions of Clause 52(2) of the Electoral […]

Insecurity in Imo: Migrants or terrorist infiltrators?

THE security situation in Imo State is getting grimmer and if care is not taken, the state can turn into a major flashpoint. On Tuesday, June 15, 2021, vigilant operatives of the 72 Special Forces Brigade of the Nigerian Army, Makurdi, made a timely catch for which they deserve our commendation. They intercepted five trucks […]

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