SENATOR representing Gombe south, Joshua Lidani, says the country is empowering Boko Haram insurgents by paying ransom for abducted persons. Lidani said this on Thursday while contributing to a debate on motion on the missing schoolgirls in Dapchi, Yobe state. The senator said measures should be put in place to ensure that schools, particularly those
The Chairman of the APC Governors’ Forum, Rochas Okorocha of Imo, said President Muhammadu Buhari would soon address the nation on whether he will seek re-election in 2019. Okorocha stated this when he briefed State House correspondents after a closed-door meeting between the President and the APC governors held on Thursday night at the Presidential
Corruption is getting worse in Nigeria, according to the latest corruption perception index (CPI) released by Transparency International (TI) during the week. While the country scored 27/100 and was ranked 136th in 2016, the latest CPI scores Nigeria 28/100 but with a rank of No. 148 out of 180 countries surveyed — a significant 12
Nigeria’s Dangote Group has signed a deal to commence the building of integrated sugar plants in six states in Nigeria. The Chairman of the group, who is also Africa’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, made the announcement at a forum in Lagos to honour major distributors of Dangote Foods in Lagos on Thursday. He said
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the military and other security agencies to take immediate charge and control of Government Girls Secondary School Dapchi, Yobe State, attacked by suspected Boko Haram terrorists Monday night. The president also directed them to furnish him with information about the incident which a media report said had left over 90
Afenifere, pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, on Tuesday said the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and its immediate past chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega should be held responsible over the rampant cases of underage voters prevalent in the Northern part of the country. Yinka Odumakin, the organisation’s National Publicity Secretary said it was amazing that children could be
The Federal Government of Nigeria has released a sum of $60 million for 65 critically distressed Nigerian missions in serious debts and crisis. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Jideofor Kwusike Onyeama, disclosed this to State House correspondents on Wednesday after a cabinet meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari. The minister explained that this
EVANGELIST Billy Graham, counselor to presidents and the most widely heard Christian evangelist in history, has died at age 99. Graham had been treated in recent years for cancer, pneumonia and other ailments. The spokesman Mark DeMoss confirmed that the Rev. Graham died Wednesday morning at his home in Montreat, N.C. His message and service
While Nigerians are puzzled by the tale of a snake swallowing N36 million in Benue JAMB office, it has been alleged that monkeys have taken N70 million belonging to the Northern Senators Caucus. The caucus had sacked Sen. Abdullahi Adamu as its chairman on Wednesday, following allegations of misappropriating N70m belonging to the group. Deputy
ABOUT 94 students are missing after suspected Boko Haram terrorists attacked a girls’ secondary school in Yobe state Monday night. The attack on Government Girls Secondary School Dapchi came after sunset when some of the students were breaking their fast which they usually observe on Mondays. A source in the school told Daily Trust yesterday