Category: News


  • African monarchies are not like modern European monarchies in one respect: An unspoken rule for African monarchs is that they must always be dressed in their traditional robe and crown day in day out, and especially for public functions. They are not like Britain’s Queen Elizabeth who is free to wear ordinary modern skirt suit and…

  • Nigerian insurgent group Boko Haram has shown a video of 15 girls, who have been identified as missing Chibok girls by their parents. The girls are shown wearing black Islamic dressing. In the video, which appears to have been filmed in December 2015, according to the BBC, the girls say they are being well treated by the…

  • The UN child agency Unicef has reported that there has been a huge spike in the amount of children used in suicide bombings by Boko Haram in all the countries where it operates – which includes Nigeria. In what it describes as an 11-fold increase in the use of children for suicide bombings, the report…

  • A mother in Delta State has accused soldiers of the 4th Brigade Benin City who are attached to Presco Oil Plc, Ovre-Eku of trampling her son to death, when they attempted to arrest her husband. The soldiers, it was gathered had stormed the community of Eku in Delta state after youths of the community burnt down…

  • Residents of Kano State had a thing or two to tell Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, as he visited the state today. The major message from their chants as they welcomed him was that they are going through very hard times. The protest was more of a lamentation with the hope that the Federal Government would…