Nigerian troops on Operation Crackdown on Friday ambushed some Boko Haram insurgents as they tried to cross into Alagarno area from Sambisa forest.
A statement signed by the Acting Director of Army Public Relations, Col Sani Usman said that the troops killed two of the terrorists and recovered many items including arms, vehicles and sex enhancing drugs.
"Following information of suspected Boko Haram elements crossing point across Maiduguri-Bulabulin-Damboa...
Friday, 27 May 2016

May 27: Saraki celebrates children, urges implementation of Child Rights Act
Posted on 15:50 by Steve Igbokwe
To mark this year's Children's Day celebration, Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki held an interactive session with children from secondary schools in Abuja in Senate chambers.
At the end of the session, he gifted each child a copy of the 1999 constitution.
Saraki also used the occasion to call for the implementation of the Child Rights Act
Read part of his message to the children below.
"I want to first of all reassure you that we...

See Aisha Buhari’s Children's Day message (Photo)
Posted on 14:24 by Steve Igbokwe
Mrs Aisha Buhari, wife of the President gave this beautiful postcard to Nigerian children on Children's Day, May 27
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Double salary lands civil servant in jail for 6 years
Posted on 11:48 by Steve Igbokwe
A civil servant, Mr Lawal Idris Abdullahi has been sentenced to six years imprisonment for fraudulently receiving monthly emoluments from two Federal Government agencies.
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC dragged Abdullahi before a Minna High Court following a petition from the National Identity Management Commission, NIMC where he was employed and at the same time drawing monthly payments from the Federal...

Read President Buhari’s Children's Day message to Nigeria
Posted on 09:35 by Steve Igbokwe
27 May 2016 | PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI'S CHILDREN'S DAY MESSAGE TO THE NATION
I heartily greet and felicitate with all Nigerian children on the occasion of this year’s Children’s Day celebration.
I seize the opportunity of this year's celebration which comes just two days before the first anniversary of the present Administration, to reassure our children and youth that we remain fully committed to fulfilling our promise of a better Nigeria for...

President Buhari marking Children's Day with a Nigerian child (Photo)
Posted on 06:39 by Steve Igbokwe
He said the wellbeing of the Nigerian child is his priority.
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Children's Day: Buhari promises better Nigeria (Photo)
Posted on 05:26 by Steve Igbokwe
President Muhammadu Buhari used the occasion of this year's Children's Day celebration to reaffirm his promise for a better Nigeria.
"We remain fully committed to fulfilling our promise of a better Nigeria for all of our people," he said.
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