The Coalition for Women Advancement in Africa (COWAA) has described the new video by Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau where he announced what could best be described as a surrender as a major breakthrough by the military in the war against the Boko Haram insurgency.

Apparently appalled by his seeming lack of empathy and manifest arrogance, a former governor of Lagos State and national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, lampooned Ibe Kachikwu, Minister of State, Petroleum, for telling Nigerians that he “was not trained as a magician”, a reference to the lingering fuel scarcity that appears to be defying efforts of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday pledged that mass killings of innocent Nigerians, abductions and other criminal atrocities would soon become history in the country.

General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, must be a rare genius in a class of his own. A man who tenaciously pursued his ambition of ruling Nigeria till he eventually became president after failing three times, must be acknowledged and saluted.

From the Vincentian Headquarters in Nigeria, Ugwaji Road, Maryland, in the hilly coal city of Enugu to the slippery Vincentian Community House, the hostel for seminarians, Abiakpo Ntak Inyang, Ikot Ekpene in Akwa Ibom State witnessed a train of an uninterrupted procession of Catholic priests – men and women who learnt of the deaths of six Catholic seminarians.

The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC vowed yesterday not to go back to Rivers State for the conclusion of the State and National Assembly election re-run held on March 19 saying it was not in a hurry to again risk the lives of its personnel, stakeholders and other partners.

17-year-old Roda Timothy, was full of expectations when she left her home state in Plateau for Lagos, last year. She had hoped to secure employment, earn a decent living and be in a position to help her family back home.

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, has described the justMconcluded National Economic Council (NEC) retreat convened by President MUhammadu Buhari, as mere jamboree and waste of over N250 million public fund, saying, “the retreat has further exposed that the All Progressives Congress (APC) government of President Buhari lacked economic blueprint as the president is still talking the way he talked while seeking for votes from Nigerians.”

A suspected suicide bomber intercepted in northern Cameroon on Friday before she could blow herself up claimed to be one of 219 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in the Nigerian town of Chibok in 2014, military and local government sources said.

President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, dubbed Rivers State as Nigeria’s most deadly state, even as he offered profuse apologies for the ill-tempered elections conducted under his watch in Kogi, Bayelsa and Rivers states.

LAGOS — As if to call the bluff of President Muhammadu Buhari’s pronouncement to generate 10,000 megawatts, MW, by 2019, output from the generating plants dropped to as low as 2,841MW by mid-day, yesterday.

ABUJA — Former Director of Finance and Accounts at the Nigerian Air Force, NAF, Air Commodore Salisu Abdullahi Yushau (retd), yesterday, revealed before the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, that all past Air Chief Marshals, diverted N558.2 million monthly from funds meant for the payment of salaries of Nigerian Air Force officials.

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has condemned calls for the sacking of the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, describing those behind the calls as “Facebook manipulators and palm wine drinkers.”

See photos of how the people of Imo State received the newly commissioned Shoprite supermarket in the state.

Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital was on Thursday, agog as the member of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Hon Afolabi Akanni, who was arrested on March 4 and detained for 18 days by the Department of State Services, DSS, returned to the state to a rousing welcome.