Politics

At the small mosque in Luggere, nestled in an ethnic Fulani village surrounded by rolling green hills, an unusually large crowd has gathered for Friday prayers. Luggere’s population has doubled in recent days to accommodate people who fled two neighbouring ...

A former Inspector General of police, Suleiman Abba has spoken about the current situation of police in Nigeria Abba said one of the major problems of the police is that they lack trust of the public. He noted that they ...

In this interview, a First Class Traditional Ruler in Benue State, Chief Abu King Shuluwa says the Tiv people are seriously considering changing their settlement pattern as a way of finding lasting solution to the incessant attacks and killings of ...

Kampala- Uganda has Africa’s best electricity regulatory system, according to the African Development Bank (AfDB’s) 2018 Electricity Regulatory Index (ERI) report. Second is Namibia, tailed by Tanzania, Nigeria, Ghana, Malawi, Kenya, Cameroon, South Africa, Togo, Senegal, Côte I’voire, Lesotho, Zimbabwe ...

Ten soldiers were killed and four were missing Sunday after an attack blamed on the jihadist group Boko Haram on a military position in southeast Niger, near the border with Nigeria, the defence ministry said. “We have a provisional toll ...

A 32-year-old former Boko Haram Commander, Rawana Goni, has appealed to the Nigerian military authorities to allow him to make a phone call to the elusive leader, Abubakar Shekau and at least 137 other terrorists to make them surrender. Goni, ...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has disclosed that it would be meeting with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, to address the issue of remittances to the Federation Account that caused the suspension of the Federation Account Allocation Committee, FAAC, meeting. ...

Assassinated Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba was immortalised on Saturday in Brussels with a square named after him; what campaigners called Belgium’s first major step towards tackling its dark colonial legacy. Hundreds of supporters cheered as campaigners and officials unveiled ...

The party of leading Sudanese opposition figure Sadiq al-Mahdi said on Sunday he has been refused entry on his return to Egypt, where he had been living in self-imposed exile. Egypt’s foreign ministry did not respond immediately to a request ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his deepest sympathy with the gas explosion victims in Kaduna, North-West Nigeria. The President further says his heart is with the victims at their hour of distress. In a statement he issued on Sunday evening, Presidential Spokesman, ...

The Nigerian Army has confirmed that 32 Boko Haram terrorists have willingly surrendered themselves to troops at different locations in Borno. Army spokesman, Brig.-Gen Texas Chukwu, who confirmed this in a statement on Sunday, said that among them was one ...

Without a doubt, the death of a child is the most unendurable filial anguish that could torment a parent. Having lost a couple of sons, David, king of Israel, captured the immeasurable worth of a child in the boundless words ...

As President Muhammadu Buhari’s efforts at repatriating Nigeria’s looted funds from other countries gathers momentum, the Swiss Government has prided itself as the first to repatriate stolen funds from Nigeria. Switzerland’s outgoing Ambassador to Nigeria, Amb. Eric Mayoraz, who made ...