A six-storey building belonging to the Synagogue Church of All Nations, Ikotun, Lagos, collapsed on Friday with no fewer than 50 persons feared dead. The building, which was under construction, was initially a two-storey building before the addition of four new floors which were under construction. Saturday PUNCH gathered that the building, which housed guests…
The North unleashed yesterday a blistering criticism of President Goodluck Jonathan, accusing him of “insensitivity.”The North’s apex socio-political organisation, the Arewa Consultative Forum, (ACF), is not pleased with Dr. Jonathan’s handling of the Boko Haram insurgency in the Northeast.The ACF listed its grouses against the President and his administration in “an open letter to Mr.…
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Kenneth Minimah, has denied the purported plan to enlist 10,000 ex-Niger Delta militants in Nigeria’s South-South and ex-service men to boost the fight against insurgents in the North-East. The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) had yesterday warned the Nigerian Army against using ex-militants, who had benefitted from the late…
A non-governmental organisation (NGO), the Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre), has written to the Trial Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC), The Hague, Netherlands, requesting it to investigate allegations of complicity against government officials in the terrorism war by Boko Haram Islamist insurgents in Nigeria’s North-East.
Special Forces of the Nigerian Army yesterday routed hundreds of Boko Haram terrorists including foreign mercenaries who invaded Konduga town about 35 kilometres from Maiduguri with a view to setting up a camp and planning to attack Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. This resulted in the killing of more than 80 insurgents, the military said.
A group claiming to be the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND)
Upwards of 10,000 retired soldiers are to be reinstated back into the Nigerian Army in a bid to boost the strength of the military to confront the insurgency that has engulfed the country’s North-East. The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) said this afternoon that the Federal Government has already authorised the move.
Defence Headquarters this evening confirmed the flushing out of Boko Haram terrorists from over seven towns in the country’s North-East, vowing to maintain the momentum until the terrorists are obliterated. Giving one of the most reassuring messages in recent times concerning the battle with insurgents, Defence Headquarters tweeted that Mubi, Michika, Bazza, Gulak, Gwoza, Bama,…
A northern delegate at the just concluded National Conference,
Residents of two Bura villages in Hawul Local Government Area of Borno State now live in fear after Boko Haram insurgents struck and ordered non-Muslims to convert to Islam within 24 hours. The insurgents were said to have invaded Shaffa and Tesan Aledeh which are predominantly Christian communities on Wednesday evening. Before they left unchallenged,…