The Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima, Tuesday led hundreds of farmers in the state to launch a pyramid of rice in Maiduguri, the state capital. The thousands of bags that was piled into a pyramid at the city’s civic centre, Ramat Square, was a demonstration of the bumper harvest recorded in parts of the state… Continue reading Despite Boko Haram, Borno launches first rice pyramid in North-east
Twenty-one of the schoolgirls kidnapped in 2014 by Boko Haram in Chibok, Nigeria, have been freed, the president’s spokesman has confirmed. Garba Shehu said the release was “the outcome of negotiations between the administration and Islamist militants”. The freed students are currently with the security forces. Boko Haram seized more than 270 students from a… Continue reading Chibok schoolgirls: Boko Haram frees 21
Members of the civilian JTF in Borno state have reportedly rescued one of the 219 Chibok school girls abducted by Boko Haram from their school hostel in 2014. The Hausa service of the BBC reports that the girl was rescued after a gunfight between the civilian JTF and Boko Haram at a forest in Borno… Continue reading Missing Chibok schoolgirl, abducted by Boko Haram, ‘found’
The father of one of the victims of the suicide bomb attack in Damaturu, Yobe State, said that he came out of the house and saw his son wrestling with the suicide bomber before the bomb went off killing his 19-yr-old son Hassan Mohammed Damagum. Mohammed, a pre-degree student at the Yobe State University, was… Continue reading ‘I saw my son wrestling with the suicide bomber’ – Father of Yobe blast victim
Months after winning a national title, Harvard’s debate team has fallen to a group of New York inmates. The showdown took place at the Eastern New York Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison where convicts can take courses taught by faculty from nearby Bard College, and where inmates have formed a popular debate club. Last month,… Continue reading Harvard’s prestigious debate team loses to NY inmates
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC) and civil society on Wednesday advocated capital punishment for corrupt officials as obtained in China and India. Making the call at a joint news conference in Abuja, the NLC President, Ayuba Wabba, and TUC President, Bobboi Kaigama, said the campaign against corruption must be intensified and… Continue reading Nigeria labour unions demand capital punishment for corruption
The Nigerian military on Wednesday said it has destroyed all known Boko Haram terrorists’ camps and cells in the North East. The Defence spokesperson, Rabe Abubakar, said this at his maiden news conference, adding that the camps were destroyed by troops operating in the region. Mr. Abubakar said the terrorists have been “so militarily defeated… Continue reading Boko Haram camps “wiped out” – Nigerian military
A complainant, Ebenezer Agbetuyi, was on Monday sent to prison after he violently opposed the verdict of an Ekiti State Customary Court on his suit seeking the dissolution of his 11-year-old marriage. Mr. Agbetuyi dragged his wife, Bukola Agbetuyi, before the court asking for a dissolution of the marriage and praying the court to allow… Continue reading Man goes to jail for rejecting judge’s verdict
At least N183 billion that was meant for the development of Nigeria’s oil rich Niger Delta, was diverted by those put in charge of the government development commission for the area, the Auditor General of the Federation, Samuel Ukura said Wednesday. Mr. Ukura insisted on the veracity of his special audit report accusing the management… Continue reading NDDC diverted N183bn Niger Delta development money, Auditor General insists
An Ohio woman has confessed to police that she killed her three sons because she said her husband was ignoring their daughter. Police had at first ruled out foul play in the deaths of Brittany Pilkington’s three-month-old boy in July 2014 and her four-year-old son in April. But when a third son was found dead… Continue reading Woman kills sons to put focus on daughter
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