NEDC and transparency in governance
By Deborah Obeweh
Transparency, as one of the basic principles of good governance, implies the public insight in the work of public administration and bodies. Citizens should be enabled to inspect the work of the public administration as well as the availability of instruments for monitoring the decision-making process. Also, citizens should be...
Biu, new face, signpost of peace
By Philip Agbese
Time could significantly alter the sad fate of a people radically for the good. It was just yesterday Biu LGA in Southern Borno state was under the woeful asphyxiation of Boko Haram insurgents. I recount the agonies of frustrated natives, nitpicking their hearts out, every day under the excessively unbearable...
Christian Genocide Allegation: Protesters seek UK Parliament action against APPG report
A group of activists from 54 Commonwealth nations are currently holding a protest at the United Kingdom Parliament, Westminster London over alleged Christian genocide in Nigeria.
The group, under the aegis of Commonwealth Activists United Kingdom, said the protest is a show of its rejection of the report by the...
Water Resource Bill: Governor Ortom accused of plans to monopolize cattle business across middle-belt
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has been accused of plots to monopolize cattle rearing business in the Middle-Belt.
The Middle Belt Conscience Guard (MBCG), which made this known at a press conference on Tuesday in Abuja, also warned the governor not to set the region on fire with his "inflammatory rhetorics" against the National...
El-Zakzaky: Call Iran, IMN to order, group urges US, EU
The Coalition for Truth and Justice has reacted to the clash between members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, IMN, and the police in Kaduna.
The coalition said the United States, US, should call IMN terrorist group to order.
In a statement signed by its National Coordinator, Barrister Timothy Charles,...
Banditry: Operation Sahel Sanity, others successful in northwest – CESJET
The Centre for Social Justice, Equity and Transparency (CESJET) has hailed the Nigerian Army's Operation Sahel Sanity as a success already in countering bandits and restoring peace to the northwest.
CESJET made this known in its quarterly interim report on the war against banditry and other forms of criminalities after an assessment tour of the...
Africans in Asia task Adesina on agricultural technology
A group of African youths based in Asia under the aegis of African Youths in Asia (AYA) has lauded the re-election of Akinwumi Adesina as the President if Africa Development Bank (AfDB).
The group’s coordinator, Oladotun Toye, in a congratulatory message signed made available to newsmen Sunday in Abuja, urged Adesina to use his...
NAUB: Buhari’s reward to an uncommon community
By Sunday Attah
The establishment of the Nigerian Army University in Biu Local Government Area of Borno State by the federal government somewhat came as a surprise to many of us. We wondered why there was a need for a Nigerian Army University as a first and what informed the choice of Biu...
DSS/IPOB Clash: Group condemns call by Kanu to attack security operatives
The Good Conscience Forum (GCF) says the call by the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu for his members to attack security operatives is a "significant threat to the peace and tranquillity in Nigeria".
The group, in a statement signed by its National President, Dr Edwin Ogbu, on Friday urged relevant authorities...
Save our nation from disgrace, call Adebanjo to order – Afenifere youths urge Yoruba elders
The Coalition of Afenifere Youth Groups (CAYG) has urged Yoruba elders to call a chieftain of its apex socio-political group, Ayo Adebanjo, to order over comments bordering on national security.
The Afenifere youths, in a statement signed by its Publicity Secretary, Otunba Ibukunke Daniel, on Friday, said some enemies of the Yoruba nation is using Adebanjo and...
