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Many repentant insurgents are women, children conscripted into terrorism — Gov. Zulum

    “They would be trained for the purpose of reintegration into the society”   By Ajuma Edwina Ameh Borno Governor Babagana Zulum...

School children kidnapping most thriving, lucrative industry in Nigeria, fast impoverishing ransom-paying parents

  Amid a rash of abductions in the Northwest Nigeria put at 1,000 students and pupils since December 2020, parents of abductees have...

PIA: The next 25 years will be defining for Nigeria’s energy industry — Osinbajo

  The Vice-president, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) has said that the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) will define Nigeria’s energy industry in the next...

Family is hurting: As woman buries her five children killed in apartment fire on her birthday

  Sabrina Dunigan’s five children died August 6 in an apartment fire, its cause still undetermined.   Their grandfather and his wife say...

Israeli warplanes bomb several sites in Gaza

The Israeli military announced Tuesday that it carried out strikes against four sites occupied by Hamas in the Gaza Strip in response to...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo SAN receives a mission debrief from AFDB Officials on the Industrial Zone led by Toda Atsuko- Acting Vice President, Agriculture, Human and Social Development at the State House, Abuja. 16th April, 2021. Photos; Tolani Alli

2023 presidential race: I have not declared interest yet, no business with flying campaign banners, posters – Osinbajo

  “All these are simply needless distractions from the urgent tasks of governance needed in our country at this time’’ “I have not...

2023: Tinubu vs Bello And Others by Reuben Abati

    From what we have seen and heard so far, it seems most likely that the race for the 2023 Presidential position...

Gutsy bandits launch fatal attack on NDA, Kaduna, kill two soldiers, abduct one

“The Academy in collaboration with the 1Division Nigerian Army and Air Training Command as well as other security agencies in Kaduna state has...

Just in: Ogun Senator, NADECO chieftain, Olabiyi Durojaiye, dies at 88

  A former Nigerian Senator, Otunba Olabiyi Durojaiye, has passed on. The 88-year-old Durojaiye reportedly died in the early hours of Tuesday, August...

Multi-million dollars bribe to pass PIB: Allegation unwarranted, unprovable, false and fake information – Senate President

  Against the backdrop of bribe scandal trailing the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), the Senate President, Dr Ahmad Lawan, says...

OML 11: Shell will not be allowed to return to our land, Ogoni leaders vow

    Following the Court of Appeal landmark judgment which handed over the management of Oil Mining License (OML) 11 to the Nigeria...

Afghan evacuees arrive Washington, Dulles airport

The first groups of Afghan evacuees arrived at Dulles International Airport Saturday, one week after the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan. At the Pentagon...

Why we raided BBNaija star, Dorathy Bachor’s block of apartments in Lekki, Lagos in wee-hours — EFCC

  … clarifies Dorathy was not at home when the operatives came calling “Ms. Bachor’s apartment happened to be one of the flats...

The Yemi Osinbajo option in APC’s 2023 presidential gambit

    By Johnson Momodu As President Muhammadu Buhari passes the mid-point of his second term in office, it is natural that political...

2 Catholic nuns shot, killed in volatile South Sudan

  Gunmen shot and killed two Catholic nuns while they were traveling on a highway in South Sudan, which is one of the...