GOVERNOR Bello Mohammed Matawalle of Zamfara State has signed a new bill into law punishing armed banditry and kidnapping with the death penalty as part of an attempt to combat the growing insecurity across the state.
Over recent years, Zamfara State has been plagued by the activities of heavily-armed bandits who have held...
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We do not need loans or grants but proper foreign direct investment (FDI) to build up our industrial capacity. Consequently, all recent coronavirus-related loans must be written off
Nigeria needs at least $100bn of FDI annually. International development agencies must agree to press industrialised countries to offer...
NIGERIAN military commanders are claiming to have killed the leader of the terrorist sect the Islamic State West African Province (Iswap) Sheikh Sani Shuwaram in a recent air strike out in Marte Local Government Area of Borno State.
Sheikh Shuwaram, 45, was installed as the new Iswap leader in the Lake Chad region by its...
Ayo Akinfe
We do not need loans or grants but proper foreign direct investment (FDI) to build up our industrial capacity. Consequently, all recent coronavirus-related loans must be written off
Nigeria needs at least $100bn of FDI annually. International development agencies must agree to press industrialised countries to offer...
Ayo Akinfe
Nigeria does not need loans or grants but proper foreign direct investment (FDI) to build up our industrial capacity. Consequently, all recent coronavirus-related loans must be written off
Nigeria needs at least $100bn of FDI annually. International development agencies must agree to press industrialised countries to...
GOVERNOR Babagana Zulum of Borno State has described as very scary recent findings showing that as many as 31.6% of the teachers employed in his state are incompetent with as many as 22.1% of them not even being trainable.
Yesterday, the governor was reacting to findings submitted to him by a committee tasked with...
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A Bonny to Port Harcourt 44km suspension bridge
A 1km Asaba to Onitsha underwater aquarium
Africa’s first underwater restaurant in Lekki
A rebuilt Tower of Babel in Adamawa along the border with Cameroon
A West African Serengeti in Taraba State
The world’s largest cattle ranch at Sambisa Forest in Borno...
NIGERIAN military authorities have reported that as many as 104 Islamic State of West Africa Province (Iswap) terrorists and their families have surrendered to troops of the 25 Task Force Brigade in Borno State.
Since 2009, Boko Haram and its breakaway group Iswap have been waging war against the Nigerian state as they seek...
BOKO Haram and Islamic State in West African Province (Iswap) terrorists have released four schoolgirls from Kautikari village in Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State who were among 24 persons abducted in the area earlier this month.
On January 14, the terrorists kidnapped 24 villagers from several villages in the...
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari survived a rocket scare in Maiduguri yesterday when terrorist sect the Islamic State of West Africa Province (Iswap) resorted to shelling the Borno State capital while he paid an official visit there.
Yesterday, President Buhari visited Maiduguri but hours before the visit, multiple explosions...