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The Arewa Consultative Forum, a group of northern elites, condemned the Kano attacks in a statement this week, but called for the government to guarantee the safety of Boko Haram members who choose to participate in dialogue.

“Importing economic dependency on the state is unacceptable,” the immigration minister said, adding: “Bringing people to this country who can play no role in the life of this country is equally unacceptable.”, Damian Green, Immigration Minister

Angry members of parliament denounced the lack of security at the match and gathered for an emergency session on Thursday, a day after violence erupted following an upset victory by home tea

Don Cornelius, called the conductor of the hippest train in America, was found dead from a single gunshot wound at his southern California home.

Convicted killers Hamza Al-Mustapha and a Lateef Shofolahan are filing a stay of execution appeals to enable the duo live to see their Appeal againt their death sentence soon to be heard in a Lagos appeal Court.

Maryam Abubakar, wife of the newly appointed Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar has died. Maryam died on Monday morning in Kano after a brief illness. She fell ill on Sunday and was taken to the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital where she was admitted as Doctors battled to diagnose the cause of a relapse in her [...]

Attempts to redress historic grievances in Nigeria’s oil-rich south may inadvertently have helped create the conditions for the Islamic

Never mind that many of the events of the past that the media relishes in asking questions about are rumours, hearsays, conjectures, concoctions, innuendoes, not to say “the fertile imaginations” of some people.”

The decision arrived to pick former Assistant Inspector General Mohammed Dahiru Abubakar as new Inspector General od Police was not an easy one according to reports.

The new Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police has been linked to religious extremism after recommendations by a probe panel urged for his dismissal or forced retirement from the force.