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How Former State Security Boss Lawal Daura Was Arrested

How Former State Security Boss Lawal Daura Was Arrested

The plot was like that of a movie, leaving trained security and intelligence officials confused. At the end of it, Lawal Daura, then head of one of Nigeria’s foremost security agencies was whisked away while his well trained security aides waited for him. Multiple sources at the Nigerian Presidency have told PREMIUM TIMES how Mr […]

Mali Opposition Challenges Presidential Election Results

Mali Opposition Challenges Presidential Election Results

Mali’s main opposition candidate and another contesting for the presidency have appealed to the nation’s Constitutional Court to investigate alleged violations during the July 29 elections. Soumaila Cissé, who received the second-largest number of votes submitted evidence of ballot box stuffing to the Court, Baguiba Bah, a spokesman for his campaign team told Bloomberg News. […]

Two Dead, 3 Injured As Suicide Bombers Attack Maiduguri Suburb

Two Dead, 3 Injured As Suicide Bombers Attack Maiduguri Suburb

Two suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers on Sunday night sneaked into a neighbourhood of Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, to carry out coordinated attacks that eventually claimed only their own lives, officials and witnesses said. The blasts however injured three other innocent residents. Twin deafening explosions, a first of its kind to be heard by […]

Obasanjo Swears He Will Never Support Atiku for President

Obasanjo Swears He Will Never Support Atiku for President

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo said on Friday that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar should not count on him for support in his latest bid to actualise his life-long ambition of being elected the president of Nigeria. The former president, one of the most influential of his living peers, hinged his blistering position on the unsavoury […]

Work to Begin on Nigeria’s Nightmarish Apapa Gridlock

Work to Begin on Nigeria’s Nightmarish Apapa Gridlock

THE Federal Government, yesterday, assured that work on the Apapa corridor of the Lagos-Ibadan Rail project would commence next week. The Federal Government, at the end of Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting, had approved N72.9 billion for the reconstruction of the road from Apapa to the Toll Gate on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. This came as […]

Africa Cannot Grow Unless Nigeria Grows – World Bank

Africa Cannot Grow Unless Nigeria Grows – World Bank

World Bank said it takes Nigeria as a “high priority” in its considerations on how to promote ideas and programmes that can aid development of the African region. The bank said it was looking forward to ways it can assist the Nigerian economy to grow faster and achieve developmental goals. World Bank vice president , […]

Wanted Boko Haram Leader Maje Lawan Arrested

Wanted Boko Haram Leader Maje Lawan Arrested

The Nigerian Army has announced the arrest of a wanted Boko Haram suspect, Maje Lawan, at Banki, Borno. According to a statement by Texas Chukwu, the army spokesman, the suspect is believed to be number 96 on the wanted list earlier published by the army. Mr Chukwu, a brigadier general, said Mr Lawan was apprehended […]

Mali election: President Keita to face-off against rival Cissé in second round

Mali election: President Keita to face-off against rival Cissé in second round

Mali’s presidential election will go to a run-off poll after President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita failed to get enough votes to win a second term in office outright, according to preliminary figures provided by the government. Keita won 41.4 percent of the vote in the mostly desert West African country, while rival Soumaila Cisse won 17.8 […]

Low turnout for Mali election as violence mars poll

Low turnout for Mali election as violence mars poll

Malians went to the polls on Sunday in a crucial presidential election as attacks disrupted voting in areas already beset by deadly ethnic and jihadist violence. Counting has started in some of the 23,000 polling stations which closed at 1800 GMT. First results are expected within 48 hours and the official outcome is set to […]

Outrage as troops of US ally Cameroon caught killing women & children in ‘despicable’ VIDEO

Outrage as troops of US ally Cameroon caught killing women & children in ‘despicable’ VIDEO

Rights groups are sounding the alarm over “a shocking and despicable” video purportedly showing soldiers from Cameroon – a close US ally in Africa – shooting and killing women and children, suspected of Islamist links. WARNING! The video contains scenes that you may find extremely disturbing. A harrowing report by the Intercept, which went public […]

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