Lawyers link poverty, unemployment to rising attacks on INEC offices

Legal experts and human rights activists have blamed poverty, youth unemployment and illiteracy for the rising attacks on the offices and facilities of the Independent National Electoral Commission across the…

APC governors approve commencement of judicial, legislative autonomy

The Progressives Governors Forum has enjoined governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, to expedite action on the implementation of specific initiatives agreed upon by the Governor…

Kebbi abduction: Bandits contact teachers, pupils’ families, silent on ransom

…army rescues two teachers, five schoolchildren as pupil dies of exhaustion Families of the pupils and teachers kidnapped by bandits at the Federal Government College in Birnin Kebbi, the Kebbi…

Civil servants more corrupt than politicians, Senate panel declares

The Senate Public Accounts Committee has declared that its investigations so far  revealed that civil servants are more corrupt than the political class. The Chairman of SPAC, Senator Matthew Urhoghide,…

Shekau’s death: FG must intensify efforts to end Boko Haram factions, say experts

A  cybersecurity and counterinsurgency expert based in the United States, Dr Sunday Ogunlana; a retired United States Army Captain, Bishop Johnson; and an Abuja-based security analyst, Yusuf Hassan, have said…

I’ll continue having kids without revealing my husband –Halima Abubakar

Actress and entrepreneur, Halima Abubakar, has opined that though she is in showbiz, she was not obliged to show off her relationship because some people were ever ready to crash…

OHANAEZE, NORTHERN GROUP DISAGREE OVER N100M BOUNTY ON KANU

Publicity Secretary of Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze, Alex Ogboannaya, has slammed a coalition of Northern groups for placing a bounty on the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra,…

Media bill worsens Buhari regime’s war on free press – Lawyers

Prominent lawyers and groups on Friday warned the National Assembly that any bill that seeks to abridge the freedom of speech and the press is unconstitutional. They spoke in separate…

Ibadan mayhem: Restrain ‘Auxiliary’ now, NURTW tells Makinde

The National Union of Road Transport Workers in Oyo State has distanced the union from Alhaji Lamidi Mukaila, popularly known as Auxiliary. The Deputy General Secretary of NURTW, Alhaji Suleiman…

NO GOING BACK ON GRAZING ROUTES RECOVERY – FG

..okays retracing exercise in non-conflict zones..Not all pastoralists can afford ranching –Agric ministry In spite of the overwhelming outcry against the plan to retrace and recover grazing routes across the…