As Nigeria’s population hits 216 million by November, this year, making the country the sixth most populous country in the world, experts have warned that the current population growth rate has dire consequences if not speedily addressed. They say there…
At least 22 soldiers and seven police operatives were among the many people reportedly killed Wednesday during attacks by terrorists in Niger and Taraba States. 15 soldiers were killed in Niger and seven in Taraba in an ambush while properties…
The deplorable state of the teaching hospital, poor workers’ welfare conditions as well as deficiencies by the regulatory body has eventuated in the withdrawal of the Abia State University’s Medicine and Surgery accreditation by the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) amid lamentations by…
Thousands of people have lost their homes and sources of livelihood to fire disasters in the last three months, Daily Trust Saturday reports. While some of the fire outbreaks were as a result of negligence on the side of the…
The continued onslaught by bandits against farming communities in Niger State has displaced thousands of people who have relocated to other parts of the state particularly Minna, the state capital, as observed by Daily Trust Saturday. The Internally Displaced Person…
Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River had set out to industrialize the state, a move that drew the applause of residents and other people across the country. To achieve this supposed dream, he established 38 factories across the state, but…
Multiple conflicts in the six regions of Nigeria have claimed more than 60,000 lives in the last decade, findings from research on the various security challenges afflicting the country. The conflicts ranging from insurgency, criminal banditry, farmer-herder conflicts, and violent…
Road, rail and air transport are being threatened due to the activities of non-state actors that have continued to hold Kaduna State, the administrative and political capital of northern Nigeria hostage. Kaduna has been under siege for the last 10…
No fewer than 88 fathers and mothers have been murdered by their children in Nigeria within a period of six years, data compiled by Daily Trust has shown. The data revealed that the killers – sons and daughters – mostly…
Ali Abuna, 51, has seen the fire and fury of Boko Haram insurgency in Hausari community in Buni Yadi, Gudja Local Government Area of Yobe State. But beyond the violence, including an attack on the Federal Government College, Buni Yadi,…
