May 8, 2017 (GIN) –Boko Haram militants who used kidnappings, bombings and the torching of whole villages during an 8-year insurgency in northern Nigeria, this week released 82 of nearly 300 schoolgirls taken in a brazen late-night raid at a government secondary school in April 2014. The girls were released in exchange for six Boko […]
Former president Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday admitted that his generation has failed Nigeria in their efforts at taking it to the ‘Promised Land.’ He, however, quickly added that what they missed out in growing the nation economically, they have been able to deliver in a united and stable country under a democratic dispensation. Obasanjo spoke in
President John Mahama and three other West African heads of state from Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone arrived in Gambia Tuesday to convince President Yahya Jammeh to accept defeat in this month’s election and “leave power”. After the surprise victory of Adama Barrow in the country’s election on December 1, Jammeh quickly conceded defeat. However,
The former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of Nigeria, Professor Attahiru Jega has urged the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Ghana, Mrs. Charlotte Osei to remain focused as Ghana prepares for the presidential and Parliamentary elections. The former National Commission on Civic Education (NCCE) boss has come under a barrage of
Motivational speaker Victor Segun Sanya continues with his series on IDEAS THAT WIN. This week he speaks on the topic, Value. .
In the first of our series on motivational speaking, we are elated to present to our cherished readers VICTOR SEGUN SANYA. We will be bringing you a topic a week on various topics. Enjoy.
Nigeria has asked the World Bank and African Development Bank for $3.5bn in emergency loans to fill a growing gap in its budget in the latest sign of the economic damage being wrought on oil-rich nations by tumbling crude prices. The request from the eight-month-old government of President Muhammadu Buhari is intended to help fund
Investigating Nigeria’s notorious baby farms and the criminals who abuse and exploit women for profit.It is understandable why a desperate childless couple might do anything to have a baby, but those who exploit their unhappiness for profit are not so easy to forgive.In this deeply disturbing episode of Africa Investigates, Ghana’s undercover journalist Anas Aremeyaw
Reports in Nigeria say as many as 60 people may have been killed after a raid on a village in the north-east by suspected Boko Haram militants. The attack on Kukuwa in Yobe state happened last Thursday but details have only just emerged from survivors. Some of the villagers who died are said to have
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has given his new military chiefs a three-month deadline to defeat the Islamist militant Boko Haram group.
