There’s an ongoing war between residents of Owukpa community, a suburb of Ogbadibo Local Government Area of Benue State and some Fulani Herdsmen, DailyPost can report. The conflict, which broke out on Saturday has left many residents injured while others have fled their homes for safety. The affected villages include, Ubafu, Umufu and Atamaka in…
By Emmanuel Uzodinma Traders at the ever busy, Obollo Afor Market in Udenu Local Government Area of Enugu State scampered for safety on Thursday following the discovery of a device suspected to be a bomb. As soon as the alarm was raised, traders and buyers vacated the area. An eye witness told DailyPost that the…
•Raise poser on Chibok abduction •Ex-Kremlin adviser, PDP paid agent —APCRUSSIAN security experts are worried over the possibility of the All Progressives Party (APC) taking over the reins of government in Nigeria next year, branding the party a coalition of Muslim extremists.The thinking in Russian political and security circles about the future of Nigeria was…
Our people were killed today, massacred ‘defenseless’ in Damboa. We are here, alive to chat, debate, read, eat and sleep, but our fellow countrymen, women and children are no more. Some were slaughtered and died on the spot, some hung on and died later and some remain maimed, possibly receiving shoddy health care and possibly…
THE Abia State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Wednesday, arrested two men with the corpse of a two-year-old girl.The suspects were apprehended when they were trying to bury the corpse in an abandoned pit in Osisioma, near Aba.The middle-aged suspects are Jonathan Nwogu from Mgboko Umuola in Obingwa Local Government…
By KINGSLEY OMONOBI-ABUJA Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. KTJ Minimah has confirmed the long held secret that desertion, acts of cowardice and indiscipline within the army in the ongoing fight against terrorism was one of the greatest setbacks in checkmating Boko Haram insurgency in the country. In a communiqué issued at the end of the…
by Olusola Fabiyi, Adelani Adepegba, Everest Amaefule and Ade AdesomojuA National Conference delegate, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN, has asked the National Assembly to reject the request made by President Goodluck Jonathan, asking for the Assembly’s approval for a $1bn loan to aid the war against the Islamic sects, Boko Haram.Falana said the President must explain…
Governor Godswiill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State has said Nigeria holds great hope for Africa and called for unity among the people despite their political and religious differences.Akpabio made the observation after the ground-breaking ceremony of the state’s permanent headquarters of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at Atan Offot in Uyo performed by the National Chairman…
The Bayelsa Social Media scene has been buzzing with the reports from the Government’s Social Media players that Ex U.S. President, Bill Clinton is billed to deliver the keynote address titled “unlocking Bayelsa State’s economic potential: Opportunities and challenges,” on July 16, 2014, at the state’s two-day maiden Investment and Economic Forum, which will hold…
BY NWABUEZE OKONKWOONITSHA—Ndigbo Unity Forum, NUF, has said that the objection being raised by Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, against the demand by Ohanaeze Ndigbo that the federal government pay N2.6 trillion to Ndigbo as civil war reparation was sabotage against national unity.NUF also said it was absurd that the northerners who seemed to be clamouring…