LAGOS—A five-storey shopping complex under construction at 9, Muri Okunola street, Eti-Osa Local Government, collapsed yesterday, killing three persons and injuring 15 others. At 8:30 pm, when Vanguard visited the scene, it was gathered that scores of persons were still trapped under the debris. At the scene, officials of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency,…
GOVERNORS of Niger, Kano, Rivers, Jigawa and Adamawa states, Babangida Aliyu, Musa Rabiu Kwankwaso, Hon. Rotimi Amaechi, Murtala Nyako and Sule Lamido respectively, on Monday, held a closed door meeting with former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, in Abeokuta, Ogun State. The resolution of the meeting which lasted for about two hours was not made known…
MAIDUGURI (AFP) – Islamist insurgents last week killed a total of 40 people and wounded a dozen others in two separate incidents in restive northeast Nigeria, a local official said Monday. Some 70 gunmen stormed the town of Bama in Borno state on a convoy of motorcycles and pick-up trucks late Thursday, said Baba Shehu…
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THE increasing threats to the corporate existence of Nigeria amid reports that a treaty ceding Nigeria to Britain for 100 years would expire in 2014, was the main reason the government of president resolved to convene a National Conference, Sunday Tribune can report. Security reports filed before the president from within and outside Nigeria, all…
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Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram members have ambushed a convoy of vehicles conveying people returning from a wedding ceremony, killing scores of them, including the groom in Bulakuri village, Borno State. The fate of the bride and her family members was unknown as of Sunday when Adamawa State Government Spokesman, Ahmad Sajoh, confirmed the…
KANO (AFP) – Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said in a video released Sunday that he led an October 24 attack in which 35 people found in military uniform were killed in the Nigerian city of Damaturu. “Look at what happened in Damaturu (capital of northeastern Yobe state),” the head of the Islamist group said…
Thirty innocent souls, including a bridegroom, family members and friends, were killed yesterday in an attack by suspected Boko Haram terrorists in Michika Local Government Area of Adamawa State. Elsewhere in the troubled North-East of Nigeria, two women were abducted by suspected Boko Haram members along the Maiduguri-Damaturu highway in Borno State. Eyewitnesses said victims…
President Goodluck Jonathan at the weekend said he is committed to Nigeria’s unity. The President spoke in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, at the second anniversary thanksgiving day of Governor Seriake Dickson. Jonathan, who was represented by the Minister of Police Affairs, Navy Capt. Caleb Olubolade (rtd.), said he focused on keeping Nigeria peaceful and…