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ABUJA—THE national leadership of Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, yesterday, faulted the inability of the Federal Government to secure schools, making innocent students vulnerable to activities of insurgents in the North-East. Meanwhile, Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, yesterday, decried the killing of over 48 school children of Government Science Technical School, Potiskum, Yobe, on Monday, killing over 48 students …

Abuja—The United States government, yesterday, condemned, in the strongest terms, the incessant attacks on defenseless civilians these past weeks by Boko Haram insurgents and urged the Federal Government to investigate and bring the perpetrators to justice. The government particularly frowned at the attacks on Ashura in Potiskum in Yobe State and in Gombe, Gombe State, on November 3; Malam Fatori …

Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State is the chairman of the Northern States Gover nors Forum, NSGF. Now in the last year of his second term, the former permanent secretary in the Ministry of Federal Capital Territory, MFCT, is presently a senatorial aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. In this interview ahead of his birthday, the …

Mali scrambled Wednesday to contain an outbreak of Ebola as it confirmed the death of a nurse, its second fatal case but the first of the virus spreading within the country’s borders. Officials say the nurse died Tuesday after treating a man who arrived from Guinea at a clinic in the capital Bamako. The patient was suffering from kidney failure …

The son of Nigeria’s former Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa and a member of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, Abduljhalil Tafawa-Balewa has debunked news reports saying he has indicated intention of not picking the presidential ticket of the party. In an interview with Channels Television, Mr Tafawa-Balewa refuted the reports, saying he has not given up his ambition of becoming president …

On the Occasion of His Declaration of Intent to Run for the 2015 Presidential Elections under the Platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Eagle Square, Abuja Tuesday 11th November, 2014 Dear Compatriots: 1. Four years ago, precisely September 18, 2010; I stood in this Eagle Square, to offer myself for election as the President of our beloved country on …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says registered voters have up till end of January 2015 to pick up their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) before the general elections. Mr Kayode Idowu, the Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the desperation and agitation being expressed by some people over the distribution of PVCs …

President Goodluck Jonathan has condemned Monday’s “dastardly murder’’ of students of Government Senior Science Secondary School, Potiskum, Yobe, by suspected suicide bomber. Reports say dozens of students were killed and several others were injured when a suicide bomber, disguised as a student, detonated an explosive at the school’s assembly ground at 7.45 a.m. In a statement issued by Dr Reuben …

Nigeria’s ambassador to the United States of America, Prof. Ade Adefuye has chided the United States of America for refusing to sell weapons to Nigeria to effectively contain the Islamic insurgency in Northern Nigeria. He said the war against the insurgency would have been won long ago, had the US agreed to sell weapons to Nigerian government. Adefuye who stated …

LAGOS—Members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and many Lagos residents, yesterday, protested shoddy distribution of the Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs, by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. In their thousands, the protesters stormed the Birrel Avenue, Yaba, office of the commission and later the Alausa, Ikeja, office of Governor Babatunde Fashola, to register their complaints. They got to INEC’s …