Another massacre was avoided in Jos yesterday, when an attack on a village in the suburb of the city by suspected Fulani herdsmen failed. The bandits, who targeted homes in Kuru Jenta village, located south of Jos, the Plateau State … read more
Dozens of doctors at a leading hospital in Nigeria’s southern Edo state ended a four-day strike and returned to work on Saturday after a colleague was freed by kidnappers, the group’s spokesman said. More than 50 doctors from the main … read more
Throughout the long years of colonialism and military rule in Nigeria, democratic aspiration was a constant and powerful driver of political change. Military governments derived their legitimacy in large part from the promise that they were preparing the nation for … read more
Doctors in the southern Nigerian state of Edo have gone on strike to protest at the kidnapping of a colleague. The director of a hospital in Benin City was abducted by unknown gunmen while he was on his way home … read more
Anti-piracy measures – African shipping and maritime security and safety experts gathered in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, Tuesday to discuss proposed new policies to improve maritime security in Africa, the African Union (AU) said here. The experts are meeting … read more
The four Christian clerics who visited ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua last Monday at the Presidential Villa, were at the Villa again on Tuesday – this time for a meeting with the Acting President, Goodluck Jonathan. The church leaders were the … read more
The Action Congress (AC) has declared that the first challenge before the newly-constituted cabinet of ministers must be to declare the ailing President, Umaru Yar’Adua, incapacitated by invoking Section 144 of the Constitution. The party, in a statement by its … read more
The religious massacres have stopped, but “secret” killings of Christians and Muslims continue on a smaller scale across central Nigeria, claiming more than 30 lives this year, police said Tuesday. The warning came after three people died and several others … read more
INTRIGUES and subterfuge over the state of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s health continued yesterday as the nation was enveloped by stories that he reportedly met with some Christian leaders at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, yesterday evening. Reports had it that … read more
FORMER boss of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission , EFCC, Malam Nuhu Ribadu, Tuesday, said he was ready to return home after over a year in exile, and would be willing to serve under Acting President Goodluck Jonathan if … read more