No fewer than 40 soldiers of the Nigerian Army were feared killed in a Boko Haram ambush in the north of Borno State. A highly placed military source told our correspondent on Tuesday that about 65 others were missing as a result of the attack by the Islamic militants. Investigations revealed that the insurgents attacked…
The Army yesterday confirmed that it had killed a top Boko Haram commander, Abba Boroma, on whose head it had earlier placed a bounty of N10m. Intelligence sources said Boroma was responsible for series of attacks on military and police formations. He is also linked to the killings of students in the North-East zone. In…
Twenty-four hours after doling out N1.5bn to mission primary schools in Anambra State, Governor Peter Obi yesterday splashed N2bn on the public schools
If extra measures are not taken to arrest the deplorable situation at the Imo State Specialist Hospital Umuguma, New Owerri in Owerri West LGA, patients, and staff of the state-owned hospital would be risking epidemic owing to foul stench oozing out from decomposing bodies littered within the hospital complex. Apart from those within the hospital…
Speaking, the traditional rulers of Mbaise led by HRH Eze Mike Abii, HRH Eze Reginald Amadi, HRH Eze Nwokocha (Umara) and HRH Eze Nwaturuocha, commended the resilence and patriotic spirit of the Maj Al-Mustapha, Chief Uwazuruike and Asari Dokubo. Abii thanked God for saving the lives of Maj Mustapha and others noting that God has…
The traditional ruler of Nri Kingdom in Anambra State, Igwe Obidiegwu Onyesoh, has at last brokered peace between the leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike and the founder of the Association of Igbo Youths, AIYO, Chief Rommy Ezeonwuka. Onyesoh had conferred the chieftaincy title…
President makes concessions to end PDP crises Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi is to be recalled from suspension, a People’s Democratic Party (PDP) source told The Nation yesterday. This is one of the four concessions made by President Goodluck Jonathan to the Group of Seven governors (G7) at a meeting on Sunday. But the President…
I was the tactics instructor at the Nigerian Military School (NMS) Zaria in 1962, where I met Mr. H.H. Kirk Greene, the Principal of the Institute of Administration located at Zaria. He was a very nice British gentleman, and very friendly. He was the first to inform me, before my commanding officer Major Wakeman of…
Pregnant woman, Ekaiquo Ewa, and her two children aged 7 and 3, were burnt to death, when a building that served as a residential building and business outlet caught fire, weekend, in Ugep, Yakuur Local Government Area, Cross River State. The inferno, which engulfed the 27, Calabar Road house on Friday at 7p.m., caught the…
Imo State Police Command, has with the assistance of villagers, smashed a gang of dare-devil kidnappers that recently abducted