The Daily IIJ

Three men in their late thirties on Friday came to the Abuja residence of an executive of Media Trust Limited, publishers of Daily Trust newspaper, and asked the security guard to let them in to inspect the premises. The guard on duty and Trust’s chief security officer said they were suspicious of the three men’s [...]

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The Senate has condemned the recent attacks on some media houses by the Boko Haram, pledging to create an atmosphere of freedom and security for the media.

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National President of the Nigeria Union of Journalist (NUJ) Comrade Mohammed Garba has pleaded with the Boko Haram sect for understanding, saying their recent threat is capable of throwing the media into confusion. Garba, who addressed newsmen in Gombe shortly after his re-election campaign said, what the media needs is the support and understanding of [...]

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A new video posted on YouTube purportedly by Boko Haram yesterday showed a smiling suicide bomber drive into the offices of Thisday and blow himself up, an attack that killed at least three people and made journalists a new target of the sect.

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A 24-year-old graduate from Zamfara State, Muhammad Usman, would present a paper at the 2012 session of the World Renewable Energy Forum (WREF) scheduled for May 13 -17, in Denver, Colorado, United States. Usman’s paper is entiled “Rural Solar Electrification-Renewable Energy Potential and Distribution for Development in Nigeria.” He is a 2010 Economics graduate from [...]

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Minister of Power Professor Bath Nnaji was among the over 200 passengers, who were stranded for over an hour inside the London-Abuja bound British Airways aircraft after its landing Saturday around 5am due power outage at the Abuja airport, Daily Trust investigation shows. According to one of the passengers, who spoke to Daily Trust yesterday, [...]

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Boko Haram suspect Kabiru Sokoto is yet to be charged to court over alleged involvement in the Madalla bombing, more than two months after his re-arrest. Kabiru Abubakar Dikko aka Kabiru Sokoto, was first captured by the police in Abuja in January and later escaped in Abaji before he was recaptured by the SSS on [...]

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SIM cards registered in other people’s names are now freely sold on the streets in Abuja, fuelling fears in security and GSM regulatory circles that this will negate current effort to get the true identity of mobile phone users in Nigeria.

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The Federal Government is planning to spend a total of N305 billion to execute projects in the Niger Delta and run interventionist agencies for the region this year, an analysis of the 2012 budget has shown. At least 29.6 per cent of region-based Federal projects for the year, valued at about N116.5 billion, will go [...]

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President Goodluck Jonathan, Senate President David Mark, House of Representatives Speaker Aminu Tambuwal and Chief Justice of the Federation Dahiru Musdapher should publicly declare their assets, a rights group has said. Human Rights Writers’ Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) said this yesterday in a statement signed by its national coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and its national [...]

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