SARKIN Hausawa of Lagos, Alhaji Sani Kabir, yesterday, told the Federal Government that northerners in the South West have arrested more than 1,000 members of the Boko Haram insurgents in parts of the South West.Speaking when the Arewa Council of Chiefs in the South West paid a visit to the Minister of Special Duties and…
The House of Representatives said on Thursday that some local government areas and villages in Borno State remained under the control of Boko Haram insurgents with thousands of residents still displaced. The House noted that the security situation in the affected local government areas was still precarious, contrary to claims by the Federal Government that…
The Nigerian Army yesterday barred journalists from further covering the proceedings of its General Court Martial, GCM, which commenced sitting on Wednesday at the Army Headquarters, AHQ, Garrison, in Mogadishu Cantonment, Abuja, to try 97 soldiers for various offences of mutiny, conspiracy to commit mutiny, among others.
One of the 60 soldiers scheduled to be tried by the Army authorities for alleged mutiny yesterday had the charges against him dropped because of ill health. As the cort martial got underway in Abuja, the lead prosecutor, Capt. Joseph Nwosu, called the attention of the court to the fact that the 11th accused person,…
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Nigeria’s richest televangelist, Pastor David Oyedepo, has been barred from entering Britain, Reuters international news agency has reported. According to Reuters in an article entitled ‘Nigeria’s ‘megachurches’: a hidden pillar of Africa’s top economy’, “Britain’s Charity Commission says it is reviewing potential conflicts of interest in his finances, and last month the Home Office (interior…
Chiefs of Defence Staff of Nigeria and Cameroon, yesterday commenced the Cameroon-Nigeria trans-border Military Operations Coordinating Conference, with the aim of evolving a joint military offensive strategy to tackle Boko Haram insurgency. According to Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, the conference was “part of the ongoing efforts at engaging relevant…
ONITSHA, the commercial city of Anambra State was yesterday thrown into confusion after the Police in the state set ablaze a building at Okpoko Layout, which the operatives described as a hide-out for members of the Movement for Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB.But the owner of the house, Mr. Ikechukwu Agude and his…
Nnewi—Over 4,000 workers at the Atani Road Industrial Estate, Ogbaru Local Government Area,
The Northern Elders Forum, NEF, has said that any Nigerian who voted for the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2015 general elections would be regarded as an enemy of the north.The forum also said that northerners had lost confidence in some of their governors who entered into secret pact with President Goodluck Jonathan…