—say position on airstrike prejudicial By Esther Onyegbula Dr. Hashim Salaudeen and Okechukwu Nwagunma, both security experts, have faulted the claim by the Minister of Defence, General Christopher Musa, that the scores of civilians reportedly killed when a fighter jet targeted Jilli Market located between Borno and Yobe states last week were not innocent victims. Musa had […]

By Matilda Ikediobi  The pattern is no longer accidental or isolated. It is deliberate, evolving, and deeply troubling. Across the battlefields of Nigeria’s North-East, a war within a war has quietly taken shape, one in which insurgents are no longer content with attacking formations or inflicting casualties on troops alone. Increasingly, they are aiming higher.  Their targets […]

FOR the first time in many years, all degree programmes offered by the University of Benin have been fully accredited by the National Universities Commission (NUC).

THE membership of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Edo State yesterday swelled in Edo Central, the senatorial district of Governor Monday Okpebholo and vowed to shock the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2027 general elections in the state.

•Stage a protest in Lagos By Chioma Obinna Medical doctors under the aegis of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, Lagos State chapter, and the Association of Nigerian Private Medical Practitioners, ANPMP, yesterday, in Lagos, staged a rare joint protest, decrying what they described as “persistent harassment, intimidation and unlawful arrests” by government agencies, particularly the police. […]