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POVERTY ! Can anyone who has not really been poor know what poverty is?  I really doubt it. How can anyone who enjoy three square meals a day explain what poverty means? Indeed,can someone who has two full meal a day claim to know poverty? Perhaps,one struggles really hard to have one miserable meal in twenty-four hours. Poverty and hunger are cousins. The former always dragging along the latter wherever he chooses to go. If you are wearing a suit,or a complete traditional attire,and you look naturally rotund in your apparel, you cannot understand what poverty entails. Nor can you have a true feel of poverty if you have some good shirts and pairs of trousers, never mind rhat all these are casual wear. Indeed,if you can change from one dress into another and these are all you can boast of,you are not really poor. A person begin to have a true feel of what poverty means when,apart from the tattered clothes on his body, he doesn't have any other,not even a calico sheet to keep away...

The military authorities have imposed an indefinite curfew in Maiduguri,the Borno state Capital,following Boko Haram attack on the city. The Defence Hq said in a tweet on its twitter handle on Sunday that the curfew was imposed to enable troops pursue fleeing Boko Haram fighters' who attacked the town. "Curfew is imposed on maiduguri with immediate effect till further notice as pursuit of retreating terrorists begin" The tweet read. It was stated in an earlier tweet on Sunday morning that troops were repelling simultaneous attacks on Maiduguri and Mongonu by the insurgents. It was added that the military had launched a co-ordinated  aerial and ground operation against the insurgents. "Troops are repelling a simultaneous attack on Monguno and Maiduguri by Terrorists" . It added that " co-ordinated Air and Land OPs being conducted now". The attack is coming barely 48 hours after military sources hinted of a major operation to flush out the Boko Har...

The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof.Attahiru Jega,has assured Nigerians' that its database is well fortified and cannot be hacked as alleged recently. The INEC chairman made the adsertion on Friday evening during a Town Hall meeting hosted by BBC media action's 'Talk Your Own radio' programme,held at protea Hotel,Asokoro,Abuja. Bulletin released by the commission on Saturday said that the INEC Chairman who answered various questions from participants said, 'I can tell you from our own integrity test and from our own knowledge of the security features that we put in place,it is virtually impossible to hack into our system. It does not stop people from trying but we believe they will not succeed. Hacking is possible if your data is online; our data is not online' When asked on the possibility of a staff compromising the data,Prof Jega was quoted to have replied that, 'we have taken stringent measures to ensure our data cannot...

Prime Time News Nigeria: PDP Youths' set APC office ablaze

Youths' suspected to be supporters of the People Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday set ablaze the campaign office of  All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate, Barr. Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar in retaliation of the attack on President Goodluck Jonathan and vandalization of PDP billboards and posters in Bauchi

The Defence Headquarters website has been  hacked. The site defenceinfo.mil.ng was hacked into in the early hours of Friday. However,the Defence Headquarters' said its information blog site has been restored. According to a statement signed by Major Gen. Chris Olukolade, Director of Defence information, "The site was defaced at the front end. However,the hackers could not infiltrate the database of the site" "Preliminary investigation shows that the attack was from the end of the site's host. One Ima Sadiq who posed as the hacker has been knocked off and normal activities on the channel has resumed." "Apparently,the blog site was targeted because of its role as a major channel for disseminating information on military and security activities in the nation's counter-terrorism campaign",he said.

President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday made a surprise visit to the troubled northeast,which is in the grip of escalating Boko Haram violence that threatens next month's election. An AFP reporter in the Borno State capital,Maiduguri,said the president arrived in the city shortly before 3:00 pm(1400 GMT) and was met at the airport by the state governor Kashim Shettima. He was accompanied by the chief of defence staff,Air Marshal Alex Badeh,military top brass and the national security advisor as well as about 200 soldies. The visit-Jonathan's first to Maiduguri since March 2013-was shrouded in secrecy and came after a previous trip to the restive region in May last year was cancelled. Jonathan had planned to visit the remote town of Chibok,also in Borno,after Boko Haram militants kidnapped 276 girls from their school in a crime that shocked the world. The cancellation,reportedly for security reasons,dealt Jonathan a further blow in his perceived woeful handling of the kid...