Dandal Kura Radio International

Contrary to increasing fears of negative outcome from Nigeria’s rising external and domestic debts, which many believe are back to pre-2015 levels to fund infrastructure development and budgets, the International Monetary Fund says there is merit in this strategy.

President Muhammadu Buhari will open a regional conference holding in Abuja Nigeria between April 26 and 29 on how to end killings by herdsmen in the country.

The Nigeria Police Force has recovered the stolen mace from the Senate taken during plenary by 5 suspected hoodlums’ on Wednesday.

Obvious cracks appeared wednesday in both chambers of the National Assembly in Nigeria over the reordering of election sequence, as heated arguments led to the suspension of the debate on the bill in the Senate and the House of Representatives.

The International Monetary Fund has cautioned Nigeria and other oil exporting countries yet to utilise the opportunity created by the prolonged stability in crude oil prices to reform their economies, saying they would not be so lucky if crude prices plunge again.

Nigeria’s candidate, Amb. Peters Emuze has been elected to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in a keenly-contested election held at the UN Headquarters, New York.

The Nigerian Army on Wednesday declared five persons wanted in Taraba for their alleged roles in killings in Takum Local Government Area of the state in particular and state in general.

Incensed by the escalating spate of killings by so-called herders of cattle in several states in the country, especially in the Middle Belt, senators during plenary Tuesday called for the sack of the service chiefs over their failure to end the violent attacks on communities and the gruesome slaughter of villagers.

Barely one week after President Muhammadu Buhari blamed the rise in attacks by suspected herdsmen on foreign militia once trained by Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, the United States military Monday expressed great concern over incessant attacks by foreign extremists in Nigeria and other West African countries.

The Nigerian Air Force says the Air Task Force of Operation Lafiya Dole has successfully destroyed some Boko Haram vehicles at a location about 12km East of Arege in the Lake Chad region, Borno State Northeast Nigeria.