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Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has repudiated Justice Idris Legbo Kutigi, Chairman of National Conference for excluding its members in the constitution of Conference Committee on Religion. CAN  faulted the composition of the Committee on Religion, saying it is heavily lopsided in favour of Muslims. The association voiced its displeasure via a press statement signed […]

…trains building materials dealers in Benin The nation’s foremost cement manufacturer , Dangote Cement last week expressed its willingness to partner members of Lagos State Bricklayers Association(LSBA) towards eliminating the spate of collapse building in Lagos even as the cement company collaborated with Standard Organisation of Nigeria(SON) to train building materials dealers in Benin, Edo  […]

This is a critical moment in the history of our country. As has been said, no single event has threatened our collective peace and security than the current Boko Haram insurgency currently ravaging some parts of the country. As if to assert that the insurgency/insecurity is a national emergency, the Abuja bombing of Monday April […]

National Conference Chairman and former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Idris Legbo Kutigi, GCON, has announced a change of venue for some of the standing committees, as deliberations at the committee level begin tomorrow, Tuesday, April 22, 2014. While Committees One to Ten will hold their sessions at the National Judicial Institute, Committees 11 to […]

Following Sunday’s attack where a five-year-old girl was burnt to death, Bauchi State Governor, Mallam Isa Yuguda, has ordered that the 200 students currently in Government Girls Secondary School (GGSS), Yana, should be evacuated from the premises. Alhaji Ibrahim Aminu, the state’s commissioner for education, explained to journalist on Monday that the students were moved […]

The seeming helplessness and inability of the Nigerian government to effectively stem the unending spiral of violence by Boko Haram terrorists that has engulfed Nigeria is creating a deep sense of international outrage and frustration, especially at the UN, where Nigeria currently holds the rotatory Presidency of the Security Council for the month of April. […]

   Most parts of Lagos, southwestern Nigeria were flooded on Sunday due to the heavy rains that disrupted the Easter celebration.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has said that the Minister of Petroleum Resources and Chairman of NNPC board, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke and the Group Managing Director of the Corporation, Engr. Andrew Yakubu are in harmonious working relationship and dismissed insinuations in some quarters of a phantom frosty relationship between the two key figures in […]

Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has restated that no criminal group, including Boko Haram, would be allowed to break up the country. Jonathan gave the assurance in Abuja on Sunday while receiving a delegation of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) residents led by FCT Minister, Senator Bala Mohammed and Senator Philip Aduda, on an Easter visit. […]

Gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram on Sunday attacked Government Girls Secondary School (GGSS) in Yana, Bauchi State. An eyewitness who spoke to our correspondent said suspected gunmen set ablaze some houses in the staff quarters of the school, charring a five-year old girl to death. Bauchi State Police Spokesperson, DSP Haruna Mohammed, […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has postponed its State Congresses scheduled for Wednesday 23rd April, so that State Governors under its aegis would be able to attend the rescheduled expanded National Security Council meeting, fixed for the same day. APC disclosed the postponement in Lagos on Sunday, through a statement issued by Alhaji Lai Mohammed, […]

So it happened again, the other day, in yet another unusual and most inauspicious of places – Abuja, the nation’s capital. In a continued orgy of indiscriminate bloodletting, at least 72 Nigerians were killed and 164 others injured by a suicide bombing at the Nyanya motor park. After running riot in the north, Boko Haram […]