“I APOLOGISE to the Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III for the embarrassment that my opinion material based on reports of last week’s peace conference in Abuja could have him. I offer him my sincere apologies and hope His Eminence would accept them.” Barely 12 hours after heat generated by the Muslim Rights Concerns (MURIC) got to him, former Chairman, Editorial Board of Vanguard Newspapers, Mr. Isiguzo Ikedi, has handed in his...

“It is better for you to cut firewood and sell to earn a living than to beg.” The Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II, on Saturday called on people who beg for alms or other forms of assistance from individuals and relatives to instead direct their begging to the government. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Sanusi made the call at the National Conference on Alarammomi (Qur’anic Teachers) organised by Centre for Qur’anic...

No fewer than 13 armed bandits have been killed by the military under Operation Hadarin Daji in several villages in the war theatre area covering the three states of Zamfara, Katsina and Kebbi. This is confirmed to newsmen in Gusau by the Acting Force Information Officer of the operation, Capt. Abayomi Orii-Orisan, in a statement on Friday. He said that the operations also resulted in the interception of large cache of ammunitions, 4,630 rounds of...

The U.S. is opposing plans by Nigeria’s government to hand about $100 million the American authorities say was stolen by deceased former dictator Sani Abacha to a top ruling party official. The disagreement may hamper future cooperation between the two nations to recover state money moved offshore by Abacha, who Transparency International estimates may have looted as much as $5 billion during his 1993-98 rule. A commitment by Nigeria to transfer the funds to Kebbi...