Italy held a mass funeral on Friday for 26 young Nigerian women who drowned while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea. A Roman Catholic bishop and a Muslim imam both said prayers at the simple ceremony in the southern city of Salerno, with 26 wooden coffins laid out on a stone dais. A single white rose was placed on the lid of each. Just two of the women were identified. "It is very likely that these girls were victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation," said Federico Soda, director UN migration agency IOM for the Mediterranean. A recent IOM report had…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday said he had resolved to pay back the goodwill Nigerians extended towards him during his recent health challenge by protecting their interests with all the energy at his disposal. He restated his administration’s commitment to improving security, fighting corruption and restructuring the economy. Buhari spoke at the public presentation of a book, titled, “Making steady, sustainable progress for Nigeria’s Peace and Prosperity,” at the old Banquet Hall of Presidential Villa, Abuja. He said within the limited resources available to him, his administration would continue to give priority to security by addressing herdsmen/farmers’ clashes, kidnapping and…

A national leader of governing All Progressives Congress, APC, and a former Governor of Lagos state, Mr Bola Tinubu, on Thursday advised President Muhammadu Buhari to use the remaining part of his tenure to build a better country and help “suffering” Nigerians. Tinubu took advantage of his position as a keynote speaker at the presentation of a book “Making steady, Sustainable Progress for Nigeria’s Peace and Prosperity: A Mid-term Scorecard on the Muhammadu Buhari Administration”, which held at the State House conference centre, Abuja, to tell Mr. Buhari that although he has done well in his first two years, he…

Chief of Army Staff, Mr Tukur Buratai, a Lt-Gen, on Thursday prayed the Federal High Court in Abuja to dismiss a suit seeking to compel him to produce the ‘missing’ leader of proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu. A team of lawyers representing the IPOB leader had in the suit, prayed the court to order Buratai to produce their client either dead or alive. The lawyers led by Mr Ifeanyi Ejiofor, told the court that they had not seen nor heard from their client since September 14 when Nigerian Army invaded his house “on a murderous raid,…