Nigeria’s remote northeast is in a “post-conflict stabilisation phase”, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Friday, despite persistent attacks by Boko Haram insurgents. The Islamist insurgency has devastated the region since 2009, leaving at least 20,000 dead, displacing more than 2.6 million
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Dr Bukola Saraki has blamed his trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) on his emergence as the President of the Senate. Senator Saraki made the allegation in a statement on Friday after he was discharged of all 18 charges brought against him by the Federal Government. “The case was trumped up in the […]
The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, led by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, as President-General, has carpeted the Christian Association of Nigeria, Nigeria Christian Elders Forum and some political leaders over the killings in the country. The NSCIA in a statement by its Deputy Secretary General, Prof. Salisu Shehu, said some […]
The Federal Government has arraigned a former governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswam, before a court in Abuja, the nation’s capital. Suswam was arraigned in court on Friday on three counts of illegal possession of firearms.
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Friday in Monguno, Borno State, reiterated his determination to fish out and punish politicians who were instigating violence in some states for cheap political goals.The President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, said Buhari stated this at the closing events of the 2018 Army Day celebrations which […]







