Nigerian authorities said Friday they had freed three women and six children abducted by Islamist extremist group Boko Haram as part of an ongoing military operation targeting the extremists. The group was abducted on May 7 during an attack on the town of Bama in the country’s northeast, according to Defence Spokesman Brigadier General Chris [...]
Barrister Tony Odey, an aspirant for the chairmanship seat of the Yala Local Government Area of Cross River State, southsouth Nigeria, on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in this interview with EROMOSELE EBHOMELE, speaks on his cardinal programmes for the people when elected in the forthcoming election Why did you decide to [...]
When Michael Adebolajo was filmed clutching the bloodied knives he apparently used to butcher a soldier, Britons were chilled by the strong London accent in which he spoke of his Islamist motives. How could one of their own have become so radicalised? A picture is slowly emerging of the 28-year-old, one of two men of [...]
The Lagos State Government has shut down two churches and six companies over cases of environmental pollution in various parts of the state in southwest Nigeria. Officials of the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency, LASEPA, shut the affected places after serving them abatement notices, which they failed to comply. The enforcement was led by Mr. [...]
The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, has called on the Federal Government to set up machinery for compensating the victims of the Boko Haram insurgency across the nation. PFN, at a news conference on the state of the nation held at Ajao Estate area of Lagos, southwest Nigeria, on Thursday lamented that a number of [...]
Nigerian airlines must do all they can to prevent drug trafficking, Nigeria’s anti-drug trafficking boss, Ahmadu Giade, said on Thursday, just days after a cabin crew with Arik Air was arrested in London with six kilogrammes of cocaine. Giade, who was represented by the Commander of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the [...]
The Lagos State Government are one of the lead participants and supporters at the Upcoming CEO Forum on Children’s Rights and the Business Sector scheduled for 30 May in Lagos at the Wheatbaker Hotel. The event hosted by the Children and Business Network Nigeria is an advocacy platform established to engage the business sector and [...]
