A defence analyst, Prince Adebayo Kabir Gbadegesin, has urged the military to be more cautious in its onslaught against Boko Haram insurgency. Serious precaution, he said, would save officers and men handling the operations from being consumed in guerrilla warfare. Addressing reporters in Oyo town, Oyo State, Gbadegesin noted that since guerrilla warfare is the…
The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) yesterday said its members did not perpetrate any crime during the sit-at-home it declared in Southeastern states. MASSOB’s Deputy Director of Information Mazi Chris Mocha said those who committed crimes in Anambra State were fake MASSOB members. Mocha said eight members were killed…
A family in Umuoma Autonomous Community, Owerri West Local Government Area of Imo State, was shocked at the weekend to discover undetonated dynamite buried in its compound. The bomb, suspected to have been laid during the civil war, was buried in Igbokwe’s compound at Ukwo-Umuoma. A police source said the bomb was discovered after several…
FEAR has gripped residents of Asaba and neighbouring communities within the River Niger in Delta State, following flooding that ravaged the area, weekend. Although unconfirmed report said that some persons were swept away by the flood especially those living near the flood plain, state Commissioner, Bureau for Special Duties, Dr. Tony Nwaka, said yesterday, that…
The Presidency yesterday described the comment credited to former Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Nuhu Ribadu as false, hypocritical and self-serving. Ribadu, at a lecture in Kaduna on Saturday, was quoted as saying Nigeria is a “sinking ship” under President Goodluck Jonathan, adding that the yearnings of the masses are being neglected by…
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) – Nelson Mandela remains in serious but stable condition while being treated in intensive care for a lung infection, the South African government said Monday. The 94-year-old was rushed to a Pretoria hospital early Saturday, in the latest health care that has prompted South Africans to come to terms with the mortality of…
THERE is tension in the yet-to-be registered main merger opposition party, All Progressive Congress, over distribution of offices. The APC is a product of a merger between the Action Congress of Nigeria, Congress for Progressive Change, All Nigeria Peoples Party and a faction of the All Progressives Grand Alliance and it has an avowed mission…
Tragedy struck on Sunday at the Trinity Spare Parts Market in the Olodi Apapa area of Ajegunle, Lagos, as no fewer than 150 shops, including their materials, were consumed by an inferno. It was believed that the fire was caused by an electrical power surge in one of the shops at a section of the…
ABAKALIKI—EBONYI State House of Assembly ad hoc committee investigating the impasse in NIGERCEM factory, Nkalagu, between the state government and core-investor, Ibeto Group, weekend, invited leaders of the host communities who called on the House to intervene in the face-off.
Three Lebanese and the Nigerian coowner of Amigo Supermarket, who were arrested for keeping an illegal armoury and suspected links with a Hezbollah terror cell in Kano last week, have sued the Federal Government over alleged illegal detention, demanding N50bn damages.