The Aba shoe industry project in South-East Nigeria is heading for global market with daily export figures of one million pairs to other African countries, the President of the Abia Think Tank Association, Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa has said. Ohuabunwa , who stated this during a press conference ahead of a two-day economic summit in Aba,…
Suspected members of dreaded Boko Haram terrorists, yesterday,
Four civilians were killed in the remote north of Cameroon in a cross-border attack by fighters from Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram, according to Cameroon state radio. Cameroon’s army responded after an assault on the village of Assighassia near the city of Mokolo, and two militants were killed and a Cameroonian soldier injured, state-run…
Boko Haram terrorist group appears to be in disarray following the reported death, in battle, of the leader, Abubakar Shekau. Quoting fleeing residents of Konduga, Borno State, News Express had this morning reported the news making the rounds in Maiduguri, the state capital, of the dreaded terrorist leader.
THE shooting ended in 1970 in Nigeria’s fratricidal war, but the war, it is now becoming increasingly obvious has not quite ended. Indeed, the civil war is continuing by other subterranean means, with prejudices and parochialism ossifying along
At the studios of BFM Malaysia 89.9 in Kuala Lumpur with the host and interviewer Miss Lee. During this interview we made it clear once again in a Malaysian owned radio station in Malaysia that the killing of Biafrans in Malaysia must be brought to an end. Today many ordinary citizens of Malaysia are now…
As Federal Govt UBE Inscription Appears on Roche Proto-type School Blocks he recent discovery by residents of Imo State that the much acclaimed 365 prototype schools being built across the state by the Owelle Rochas Okorocha government have Universal Basic Education, UBE inscription on them has raised uproar and doubt about the earlier statements of…
The debate over the true origin of the Igbo continued recently when two communities laid claims to being the progenitors. Now, the professionals of Umueri extraction in Anambra East Local Government Area of Anambra State, under the auspices of Greater Umueri Liberation Forum, GULF, debunked the claims by Nri & Aguleri, saying their town was…
Some retired senior military officers have backed the death sentence passed on 12 soldiers of the Nigerian Army for committing mutiny. The officers told SUNDAY PUNCH that it was necessary for the military to maintain its age-long rules on discipline. The soldiers were court-martialled for a variety of offences, including firing shots at the General…
Leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), Sheik Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, has reported the federal government to the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) in Geneva, Switzerland, over the killing of his members. Thirty-five members of the group, including three of the prominent cleric’s sons, were shot dead in July by soldiers during the group’s…