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Aisha Wakil, the Maiduguri based lawyer and rights activist, with links with Boko Haram,  said she would do everything possible to get the 110 abducted Dapchi schoolgirls freed. Aisha, also called Mama Boko Haram, believed the girls were captured by the Barnawi group of the terror sect. She appealed to the group to free the girls. She said she was ...

There was pandemonium in the Akala and Idi-Oro areas of Mushin, Lagos State, on Tuesday when some hoodlums clashed with policemen from the Area D Command. During the mayhem, no fewer than five people, including a policeman, three residents and a pupil, were reportedly killed. Our correspondent learnt that trouble started when a police team raided a shop on Elegba ...

The estimate of the Buhari administration that the Nigerian economy will grow this year up to 3.5% is on course as the just released GDP figures indicate a further growth in the fourth quarter of 2017. The Nigerian Bureau of Statistics, NBS, on Tuesday announced that the economy grew in the fourth quarter of 2017 by 1.92%. In the previous ...

Passes Vote Of Confidence on President Buhari, NWC The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has, at the end of its 5th meeting, generally agreed to extend the tenure of all elected and appointed officers of the Party in the 36 states, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and the national level. The current tenure will end on ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has debunked the claim by the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, that her Abuja property, which the commission was seeking to seize, had been demolished. EFCC denied Mrs. Jonathan’s claim in its counter-affidavit filed before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court in Abuja. The counter-affidavit was filed in response to ...

The Federal Government will tomorrow inaugurate a 12-member committee to unravel the circumstances surrounding the abduction of 110 students of the Government Girls Science and Technical College (GGSTC) in Dapchi, Yobe State, on 19 Feb. The panel will begin work tomorrow after its inauguration. A statement issued today by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, indicated that ...

The Federal Government has released the names and other details of the 110 girls who have yet to be accounted for, following the attack on the Government Girls Science and Technical College (GGSTC), Dapchi, Yobe State, on 19 Feb. 2018. Out of the 110 missing girls, 8 are in JSS1, 17 in JSS2, 12 in JSS3, 40 in SS1, 19 ...

The Bishop of Kafanchan Catholic Diocese, Bishop Joseph Danlami Bagobiri, is dead. The Catholic cleric was believed to have died in the early hours of Tuesday following an illness. Director of Social Communications, Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria, Rev. Fr. Chris Anyanwu, has confirmed Bishop Bagobiri’s death. Only recently, the late Bishop Bagobiri chided the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria over ...

The Police Command in Bayelsa on Tuesday confirmed the kidnapping of Mr Robert Desmond, Chief Executive Officer of a pro-All Progressive Congress (APC) campaign group known as the “New Face.” The Spokesman of the command, DSP Asimin Butswat, who confirmed the abduction, said in Yenagoa that the police had commenced investigation to arrest the perpetrators of the crime. A witness, ...

The United States will overtake Russia as the world’s biggest oil producer, if not this year, by 2019 at the latest, as its oil import dropped to its lowest level since 2001. IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol said this at an event in Tokyo that United States would overtake Russia as the biggest crude oil producer “definitely next year”, if ...