Boko Haram terrorists: Target foreign backers, Turkish expert tells Nigeria
Nigeria’s bid to win the fight against Boko Haram may take longer than expected except
Boko Haram terrorists Returns On A Killing Spree In Borno Village
Despite assurances of military strength and capacity in Borno state, Islamist militant group Boko Haram yesterday attacked Izge village again in the state. A source in the village told Saharareporters that the sect returned to the village last night and killed some people who are mostly elderly and burnt many houses with impunity. The source…
National Conference Our agenda, by Igbo, Yoruba, North, S/South
AFTER initial discordant tunes in some quarters, all sections and segments of the polity are now poised for the forthcoming National Conference. Leaders of the ethnic nationalities are taking the lead to fashion out water-tight agenda to be presented at the confab. Main opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), which initially dismissed the proposed confab as…
Nigeria’s unity must be re-negotiated —Akinrinade
Former Chief of Defence Staff and Minister of Agriculture, Industries and Transport, Lt-Gen. Alani Akinriande (rtd), yesterday, said that the socio-political and economic woes befalling the country can only be resolved when the nation’s unity was re-negotiated through the proposed national conference. Akinriande’s position was re-echoed by a Bini leader, Chief Solomon Edebiri. Gen. Akinriande,…
president Jonathan Nigeria’ll overcome her challenges
Despite increasing onslaught by the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, in northern part of the country and other security challenges in the country, President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, assured that Nigeria will triumph and become the great nation it was destined to be. He spoke at the third service of Dunamis International Gospel Church, Area one, Abuja,…
Mallam Sanusi explodes says Jonathan’s aides fraudulent, unfit
EMBATTLED Central Bank Governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, who was suspended from office last
Boko Haram terrorists: Outdated weapons hinder military operations
There are strong indications that the ongoing military operations against insurgents in the North-East may have been seriously hampered by lack of modern military hardware and the prevalence of aging equipment in the Armed Forces. Saturday PUNCH learnt that the military had been faced with the difficult challenge of using mostly refurbished military hardware in…
Tension in Onitsha as Jonathan visits
Security agents in the commercial city of Onitsha and Anambra State in general are having hectic time controlling
Boko Haramterrorists: Fresh attacks cause tension in military
The renewed attacks by Boko Haram insurgents in the North East is causing serious tension in the military, even as the Service Chiefs are already charting new courses to ensure that the situation is arrested. Before the Service Chief’s assumption of office in January, there was a relative peace in the North East especially, as…
A failed state Boko Haram terrorists leader vows to kill elder statesmen, others in new video
THE leader of the extremist Boko Haram sect, Abubakar Shekau, has, in a video released to journalists, threatened more attacks against Nigeria, saying his members would target Nigeria’s sources of revenue, and her refineries.Shekau, who is wanted for terrorism by both Nigeria and the U.S., also vowed to kill major Islamic clerics and people that…