Category: Reports

This was not the squeamish response of a naïve young man. The 26-year-old still vividly recalls that Thursday afternoon seven years ago at Nigeria’s University of Calabar, converging with fellow students around three tables with a cadaver laid out on each. Minutes later, he screamed and ran. The body his group had been about to […]

Professor Attahiru Jega, a former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has asked people with integrity to join politics. In an interview with BBC Hausa, Jega said those who do not lack the fear of God are many in politics. He also asked Nigerians to shun the leading political parties – the All Progressives […]

The battle for the 2023 elections seems to be taking shape in the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the power blocs are already testing the waters. The verdict of the Supreme Court on the Ondo governorship election had thrown up fresh issues in the ruling party. The apex court, had in a split decision of […]

Abba Kyari, the Nigerian police commissioner recently exposed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a member of an Internet fraud syndicate, has described his scandal, including the police investigation thereof, as a joke. Mr Kyari’s unremorseful comment came after he was accused of once raping a suspect in his custody by a social media […]

If Abubakar Hassan had known what laid ahead of him, he would probably have rejected the apartment offered to him at Red Bricks, an Estate on the fringes of Damaturu, capital of Yobe State. Hassan had barely spent six months at the apartment when his life was cut short by someone he trusted. Friends, family […]

The Commander Corps of Artillery, of the Nigerian Army, Major General Tari-Timiye Gagariga visited 34 Artillery Brigade Obinze, Imo State on 30 July 2021, as part of his Maiden Operational visit. The Commander Corps of Artillery was warmly received at the Headquarters 34 Artillery Brigade by the Commander 34 Artillery Brigade, Brigadier General Raymond Utsaha […]

A former Zamfara senator Saidu Dansadau says bandits are scaling up attacks on Dansadau community to protest the suspension of Emir Hussaini Umar, accused on involvement in banditry. Dansadau, who represented Zamfara central from 1999 to 2007, told Daily Trust on phone that the spike in attacks on the community shows the suspended emir was […]

NIGER STATE MINISTRY OF WORKS IN PERSPECTIVE During his 2014/2015 campaign manifesto, Governor Abubakar Sani Bello, promised a holistic approach to infrastructural development, that transformed the manifesto to a Blueprint of Action and guiding principles of the administration’s restoration agenda. Part of the blueprint restoration agenda, is to transform and restore the lost infrastructural deficit […]

The abduction of about 200 school children in Tegina, Niger State, is the second most traumatic incident for the nation since the Chibok girls kidnap of April 2014. The armed men abducted the students from Salihu Tanko Islamic School in Tegina, in the Rafi Local Government Area of the state over a month ago and […]

DAILY TRUST EDITORIAL The abduction of about 200 school children in Tegina, Niger State, is the second most traumatic incident for the nation since the Chibok girls kidnap of April 2014. The armed men abducted the students from Salihu Tanko Islamic School in Tegina, in the Rafi Local Government Area of the state over a […]