Babangida tells Buhari to adopt unconventional military methods in the war against Boko Haram

FORMER military ruler General Ibrahim Babangida has urged the federal government to use psychological and unconventional methods in fighting the Boko Haram insurgency in the northeast of the country as classic military methods will not work.

 

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Buhari to visit Washington later this month after Trump invites him to discuss security and economy

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari is to visit Washington on April 30 after being invited for a bilateral summit by US president Donald Trump where they will discuss burning contemporary  issues including fighting terrorism and economic growth.

 

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Liverpool's Taiwo Awoniyi poised to join Anderlecht for another loan spell next season

LIVERPOOL loanee and Super eagles striker Taiwo Awoniyi looks poised to join Belgian giants Anderlecht at the end of the season after his impressive displays for fellow Belgian side Mouscron during the current campaign.

 

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Buhari to meet with Shell chief executive in London following meeting with Tinubu

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari plans to meet with Ben van Beurden the chief executive of Shell in London this week to discuss proposals by the conglomerate to invest $15bn in Nigeria’s oil industry.

 

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Buhari's wife maintains that she stands by criticism of her husband's government

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari's wife Aisha has stood by her criticism of her husband's government saying that she did so because of a sense of injustice and the need to correct many of the wrongs in society.

 

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Boko Haram expert says only about 15 of the 115 Chibok girls still in captivity are alive today

BOKO Haram expert and journalist Ahmad Salkida has revealed that only 15 out of the 115 Government Girls Secondary School (GGSS) Chibok pupils still being held by Boko Haram are still alive.

 

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Mbaise traditional ruler says Biafra is a fraud and should remain confined to the cemetery

IMO State traditional ruler His Imperial Majesty Eze Nwabueze Soronnadi Ezewiro of Mbaise has distanced himself from the struggle for the creation of the independent breakaway republic of Biafra describing the agitation as a fraud.

 

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Russian defence ministry says Syria shot down most of the Western missiles launched against her

RUSSIA'S defence ministry has claimed that  Syria successfully shot down most of the missiles launched against it by the US and its allies in an aerial bombardment yesterday using anti-aircraft technology bought from Moscow.

 

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Amusan and Galadima help catapult Nigeria up to ninth in Commonwealth Games medals table

TEAM Nigeria has jumped to ninth in the Commonwealth Games medals tables thanks to the heroics of Oluwatobiloba Amusan and Suwaibidu Galadima who both won gold yesterday in the women's 110 metres hurdles and paralympic men's 100 T47 sprint respectively.

 

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Pope Francis says Christians should apologise to gays for maltreating them and ask for forgiveness

POPE Francis has called on Christians and the Catholic Church to apologise to lesbians and gays for the way in which they have maltreated them over the decades as they have been discriminated against unjustly.

 

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