Sultan of Sokoto, Mr Sa’ad Abubakar III, on Tuesday cautioned religious groups and leaders against comments that could mislead their followers into war. Abubakar gave the warning while addressing some Sokoto residents, heads of security agencies, religious leaders and journalists during a Ramadan fast breaking dinner held at his palace Monday night. The monarch cited a publication credited to some Christian leaders titled, “if Leah Sharibu dies in the hand of Boko Haram, there will be a religious war in the country”, saying such utterances were irresponsible. He reminded such religious leaders that “terrorism has no connection to religion or…

US President Donald Trump has said there is a "very substantial chance" a historic summit with North Korea's Kim Jong-un next month may not happen.He said the North must meet conditions for the summit to go ahead though if it did not, it might happen "later". Mr Trump was speaking as he received South Korea's President Moon Jae-in at the White House.The North has said it may cancel the summit if the US insists on it giving up nuclear weapons unilaterally. Mr Trump did not say what conditions the US had set for the summit but, asked by a reporter…

A special anti-corruption investigator who was recently sacked by the Buhari administration has levelled gruesome allegations of misconduct against some senior government officials. Victor Uwajeh said he was asked to focus exclusively on opposition politicians in his investigation of undeclared and suspicious properties owned by politically-exposed Nigerians in foreign countries, a demand he said he rejected in principle. The government has, however, rejected the allegations, describing it as strange and insisting that the investigator was sacked because he failed to disclose that he had active corruption cases against him during the hiring process. Mr Uwajeh was hired in March to…

There appears to be no end in sight for the Nigeria’s electricity crisis as a system adequacy report submitted by Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) to Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has indicated that Nigeria would continue to suffer from severe grid electricity shortage in the next 10 years. The report said this would happen because under the most optimistic assumptions of high technical availability, high rainfalls, and low demand growth, energy deficit in the country would remain at a level of around 3,000 megawatts (MW). The country, it explained would however experience an average increase in power demands by…