Editorial

Following the twin bomb attack on the University of Maiduguri, Borno State, on Monday, another suicide bombing incident was intercepted in a village behind the University.

President Muhammadu Buhari has described the Boko Haram terrorist group as a “godless group with no understanding of Islam,” following Monday’s twin bomb attacks at a mosque located inside the University of Maiduguri which led to the death of a professor and three others.

Amnesty International, AI, an international human rights organization, has called on the Nigerian government to release the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, IMN, Ibraheem El-Zakzaky and his wife as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction in December 2016.

According to the Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), the fiery Prof. Itse Sagay, the country has not had a more committed anti-corruption czar with “sterling qualities as Ibrahim Magu” since the pioneer EFCC chairman, Nuhu Ribadu.

Two incidents happened last week that show a growing pattern of assault on the media and freedom of the press by men of the Nigerian Police Force.

About 37 people have been killed, most of them on the ground, when a Turkish cargo plane flying from Hong Kong crashed into homes in Kyrgyzstan.