Jalingo—No fewer than twenty persons have been feared dead and scores of others injured when Fulani herdsmen allegedly invaded Tunari village in Wukari Local Government of Taraba State yesterday. The attackers were said to have stormed the village at 10 am and set houses ablaze while most residents were in church.
Forty-two people have now died as a result of a building collapse at the megachurch of one of Nigeria’s most famous preachers and televangelists, the country’s main rescue body said on Sunday. Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said 42 people were killed in Friday’s incident, while 130 escaped or were pulled out alive from…
The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has declared that it is wrong for anyone
When has Igbo become so ethically compromised that they do must defend even thieves from Igboland? Are these Igbo not aware that such fight, like in the case of Stella Oduah not only ridicules the Igbo but belittles them before others? What happens to the sanctimonious resolve of our fore fathers never to get involved…
Born in June 1936 in Kaduna, Adekunle served in the the Nigerian Army from 1958-1974. According to Wikipedia, Adekunle who served in the Congo crisis and the Nigeria civil war assumed command of the Lagos Garrison as a substantive Lt. Col.
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday declared that the Ministry of Defence should as a matter of urgency institute a special package for officers and men who were killed in the fight against insurgency. President Jonathan stated this at the Passing out Parade (POP) of 61 Regular Course and Short Service Course 42 (Army) at the Nigerian…
A Nigerian Canada-based Professor of Literature, famous for his satirical and often critical writings about public figures and international state of affairs, is at it again. This time Prof. Pius Adesanmi has aimed his sights on ex-British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and criticised him over the latter’s recent crowing about the pragmatism of Great Britain…
The controversy over alleged sponsors of Boko Haram took a twist yesterday when Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka said information about a suspected financier of the terror group within the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) was passed to President Goodluck Jonathan.Soyinka also said he worked “in the background” with Australian negotiator Stephen Davis during the Niger…
Fiery Ijaw activist and leader of the defunct Niger Delta Volunteers Force,
Radio Biafra and the Indigenous People of Biafra!! (IPOB) Today being the 11th of September 2014 on the streets of Barcelona, the bond between Catalonia and Biafra was visibly demonstrated by the presence of Biafrans at the remembrance of fallen Catalan heroes. The Catalan Minister of State was at hand to reaffirm the relationship between…