A day after it was showered with accolades for displaying courage in a landmark judgement, the Nigerian judiciary received knocks for another crucial ruling. On Monday, Justice Mojisola Dada was widely hailed for her bravery – in the face of threats – in handing down the death sentence on the co-accused in the Kudirat Abiola [...]
Ten years ago in January 2002, Lagos witnessed an unprecedented death toll when bombs went off at the Ikeja Military Cantonment and sent stampeding residents off to all corners away from the blasts, towards what they thought were safer grounds. At the end of the day, those who ran towards Ejigbo across the Oke-Afa canal [...]
Once again, the peace on the Lagos Island was distrupted yesterday when members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, clashed over chairmanship of the union in the state. Yesterday’s fracas was the third time in less than a week that members of the union will clash in Lagos over who should be [...]
The appointment of Mohammed Abubakar as the Acting Inspector-General of Police came at a time Nigerians had lost faith in the ability of the police to address the security challenge posed by the dreaded Boko Haram terrorists. The ineptitude of his predecessor, Hafiz Ringim, did not help matters either. Perhaps Aso Rock would have tolerated [...]
Last Friday, the murky waters of football administration in Nigeria was stirred by yet another pebble when an Abuja High Court ordered both the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, and its affiliate, the Nigeria Premier League, NPL to stop functioning henceforth. In the ruling which lasted about three hours, the court, presided over by Justice Donatus [...]
After a very short break, perhaps due to the nationwide strike over fuel subsidy removal, the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram struck in Kano last Friday with deadly force, which took the lives of over 250 Nigerians. That remains the highest number of casualties so far in its senseless killing campaign. And the death toll [...]
The dead toll is still rising by the day in the wake of the senseless attacks unleashed on Kano, the most populous city in Northern Nigeria by the Boko Haram sect. At the last count, 178 people have been confirmed dead. Among them was a journalist working for Lagos-based Channels Television, Enenche Akogwu. His death [...]
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