(Reuters) – Nigeria sent fighter jets in support of troops fighting increasingly powerful Islamist insurgents in its northeast on Thursday, the second day of a military offensive that has divided opinion over how best to tackle the rebellion. A Reuters … read more »

Gunmen stormed a police station and a bank in a town in Nigeria’s northwest, beyond a region covered by a military crackdown on a Islamist insurgency, a sign the offensive could provoke violence by smaller militant cells across the north. … read more »

Soldiers raided areas in the Sambisa Game Reserve, a remote savannah of some 500 sq km (200 sq miles) in Borno state where Islamists have established bases, said two sources who spoke on condition of anonymity. They gave no further … read more »

A building under construction in Agbama area of Umuahia, the capital of Abia State collapsed yesterday night at about 8 o’clock. Red Cross, and security agencies are currently involved in rescue exercise. First responders/observers on-site fear more people may be buried … read more »

The former parish priest of St. Paul’s Catholic Parish Umuodagu Ntu in Ngor/Okpala Local Government Area of Imo State, Rev. Father Bethrand has called on Christians to be united as a body.   Rev. Bethrand made the call at a … read more »

Analysts project that seven African countries will be among the top ten fastest growing economies by 2015 and that the continent’s population is going to double to 2 billion by 2050.  It is critical to reform the power sector to … read more »

It is becoming clearer by the day that the future of world economic and political activities would rest on our ability to realign our behaviour to the sustainability of the global environment. Of these two horns of global interactions, the economy appears to be the most susceptible to the carbon age.
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Medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Nigeria had failed to deliver on promises to tackle a deadly lead poisoning epidemic and called on president Goodluck Jonathan to intervene. Lead contamination from an artisanal gold mine in the Bagega area … read more »

High youth unemployment will result in a revolution . Olusegun Obasanjo the former president of Nigeria  expressed fears that Nigeria will witness a revolution soon unless government takes urgent steps to check growing youth unemployment and poverty.   Remarks he … read more »

The scandal continues. Otedola sues house of rep and Lawan for 250bn Naira. The case goes to an abuja court. The N250bn involves two categories of damages – N100bn as “general damages for the acts of intimidation, loss of goodwill … read more »

Nigerians know they are blessed with immense natural resources. If properly managed, these resources will significantly reduce their poverty and suffering. Nigerians also know that a few privileged citizens have chosen to exploit these resources for personal gain. These two … read more »

That corruption has become endemic, hydra-headed and even emasculated the political, religious, social and economic landscape of the sub-Saharan clime (Nigeria not exception) and has eaten so deep into its sustaining bone marrow cannot be overstressed. This is expressed in … read more »

This National question whether the oil producing areas are entitled to `13% derivation of oil deposits found in the sea, 200 nautical miles and above off their shores, since the constitution is clear, that oil deposits found 200 nautical miles … read more »