The Army is now to lead the battle against suspected Fulani herdsmen who have been attacking villages in Benue, Nasarawa and Plateau states, it was learnt yesterday. Many people have been killed in attacks on villages. The Defence Headquarters announced the major military response to the ongoing killings and wanton destruction of property by armed…
Political and opinion elders in Borno and Yobe states have alleged that helicopters drop arms and ammunition, food and medicine to areas known to be strongholds of the members of the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, in the North-East. They said the authorities in the states could not claim ignorance of the development and that…
Foremost constitutional lawyer and chieftain of the Igbo Leaders of Thought, Prof. Ben Nwabueze, on Monday said the ongoing national conference would be a ruse unless President Goodluck Jonathan gives it a legal framework and adjust the 75 percent condition for arriving at valid decisions. Nwabueze said the essence of forming the Igbo Leaders of…
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has welcomed the olive branch extended to him
What are your expectations this week from the National Conference following issues of religion and others that cropped up last week? Let me first correct the erroneous impression that issues of religion have cropped up. No issues of religion have actually cropped up. What happened was that on the very first day of the conference,…
Chief Reuben Fasoranti is the National Leader of the Pan-Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere. In this interview with Vanguard, Fasoranti said the ongoing national conference is a welcome opportunity to adjust the Nigerian federation, that the Yoruba sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo would have backed it and faults northern leaders on the Boko Haram insurgency. Excerpts: Nigeria…
On Wednesday, 26th day of March, 2014, the leadership of Intersociety released the first part of this public statement, detailing with strong condemnation “how Nigeria borrows to squander” with specific reference to borrowing and squandering of a whopping sum of N7 Billion at the ongoing National Conference on “ delegates’ allowances and related logistics”. The…
Herdsmen resident in seven villages of Ladduga district in Kaura Local Government, Southern Kaduna, North-West Nigeria, have cried foul over the raid and arrests carried out last night and early this morning by men of the Nigerian Army. Secretary of Mobgal Fulbe Development Association, Ahmad Yandeh, said: “Soldiers have invaded the villages in Ladduga District…
The Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has faulted a report in a national daily (not Daily Sun) that the country losses $8 billion yearly to Crude Oil Swap Arrangement, insisting that the report was not only wrong but misleading.According to NEITI’s Director of Communication, Mr. Orji Ogbonnaya Orji, that the news item attributed to…
The Amnesty International (AI) yesterday said more than 1,500 people were killed in first three months of this year in the Northeast as a result of Boko Haram insurgency. It said more than half of the killings were carried out by members of Boko Haram, including scores of school children. The organisation said the situation…