Northern youths reacted angrily to the rumoured plan by the Presidency to replace the Vice President, Namadi Sambo with the former Zamfara State Governor, Senator Ahmed Sani Yerima, as a means of winning the support of more Muslims ahead the 2015 election. President Jonathan, facing some resistance from the North, was said to have met…
Defence Headquarters in Abuja, yesterday, said the ceasefire agreement signed between Federal Government and the Boko Haram sect had not been communicated to it. Consequently, Director of Defence Information, Brigadier-General Chris Olukolade, said the military operation to rid the North-East part of the country of terrorists would continue. Olukolade noted that the issue of ceasefire…
An Abuja Federal High Court was on Monday asked to order the Federal Government to arrest and surrender to the International Criminal Court, Sudanese President, Omar Al-Bashir. This came as the United Kingdom expressed disappointment in Nigeria for hosting the Sudanese President. Al-Bashir is in Nigeria to attend an African Union conference on HIV/AIDS. The…
Second Republic Governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, has doubted the ability of the Independent National Electoral Commission to conduct credible polls in 2015.
The police in Gombe State have confirmed the killing of two of its men on Sunday night by gunmen during an attack at a filling station in the state capital. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Fwaje Atajiri, confirmed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Gombe. He…
Operatives of the Joint Task Force have made a breakthrough in the campaign against terrorism by arresting in-laws of the Boko Haram leader, Sheik Abubakar Shekau. The Defence Spokesman, Brig. Gen Chris Olukolade, made this known during a press briefing by the Joint Security Services Public Information Committee in Abuja on Monday. Olukolade however did…
The police in Enugu last week arrested 22 kidnap suspects who allegedly participated in four kidnap attempts. Twenty one victims, including a Lebanese, were rescued according to the police who said one of the suspects, a girl, was found dead. Enugu police spokesman Ebere Amaraizu, quoted Commissioner of Police Abubakar Adamu Mohammed as vowing to…
Former Commonwealth Secretary-General, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, yesterday called for the return to true federalism to achieve development. Anyanko spoke at a lecture organised by the Torchbearer Society at the Archbishop Vining Memorial Church Cathedral, Ikeja, stressed the need to return the country to regional government. The topic of the lecture was: God In My Life.…
Some shocking discoveries have been made in Maiduguri, the beleaguered Borno State capital that is the engine -room of the Boko Haram insurgency. The Joint Task Force (JTF), Operation Restore Order II, found mass graves, tunnels and bunkers in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. JTF spokesman Lt.-Col. Sagir Musa showed reporters shallow graves, tunnels and…
One person was allegedly killed while several others were injured when some people suspected to be members of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) clashed with the Association of Igbo Youths Organization (AIYO) in the commercial city of Onitsha in Anambra State. It was gathered that MASSOB members in…