Editorial

By Dayo Aiyetan The bombing of the Internally Displaced Persons, IDP, camp in Rann, Borno State on Tuesday was the...

It's eerily quiet in Banjul, capital of The Gambia, on Thursday as tension mounts on what will become of President Yahya Jammeh’s refusal to handover power even after the expiration of the deadline set by the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS.

President Muhammadu‎ Buhari is to embark on a 10-day medical leave to the United Kingdom from January 23 to February 6, 2016

Some of these outrageous proposals were blamed on “budget padding” by either ministry officials or the National Assembly. And the presidency promised that this would not be repeated in subsequent budgets. Many people expected that the change promised by the administration would reflect in the 2017. But a close scrutiny of the 2017 budget proposal shows that no clean-up was carried out on the budget, especially that of State House Headquarters.

ECOWAS troops have been seen moving towards the Gambian border in a show of force to pressure President Yahya Jammeh to stand down.

A supervisory councillor with Mafa local government area of Borno State, Umar Ibrahim, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in Maiduguri for allegedly diverting 300 bags of rice meant for the Internally Displaced Persons in the area.