Professor Ben Nwabueze, a constitutional lawyer and Chairman of the Igbo Leaders of Thought, speaks with journalists after a meeting of the group in Enugu, on a number of issues, including the ongoing national conference, regionalism and the right of self-determination JUDE OSSAI brings these excerpts:What would you say will be the effect of the…
A member of the House of Representatives from Borno State, Mr. Abdulrahman Terab, said on Monday that 80 per cent of the attacks carried out by members of the Boko Haram sect were never reported.Terab stated that unknown to Nigerians outside Borno State, most of the killings and destruction of property went unreported.Terab said such…
By OKEY SAMPSON, AbaTwo Imams and five other members of the Muslim community in Aba, the commercial hub of Abia State, were in the wee hours of yesterday, arrested by soldiers over alleged suspected bombs.According to the former Abia State Amirul-haj and deputy chairman of the Muslim community in Aba, Alhaji Musa Iheakaram, the soldiers,…
As the United States, Nigeria and others struggle to track and choke off its funding, Reuters interviews with more than a dozen current and former U.S. officials who closely follow Boko Haram, provide the most complete picture to date of how the group finances its activities.Central to the militant group’s approach includes using hard-to-track human…
Ahead of the 2015 general elections a Christian cleric and President, Eclectic Network, Rev Moses Iloh has asked President Goodluck Jonathan not to re-contest for the Presidency.In an open letter to the President, Iloh said it is begining to appear thatit is either Jonathan is elected for a second term or there would be no…
Details of the 19 new states proposed by the ongoing National Conference t be created in addition to the 36 already in existence have been identified.This was contained in the documents obtained Saturday.For the proposed Edu State, which will be created out of the present Niger State, it will be made up of Agagie, Bida…
An official of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the Sout-East, Bishop Emmanuel Chukwuma have warned of the possibility of Boko Haram resorting to the use of suya as a means of spreading their jihad across the south of the country by poisoning millions of innocent people. According to CAN, Boko Haram intends to…
AS northern and southern delegates to the national conference held series of crucial meetings on Sunday night to strategise on the vexed issues of state creation and delisting of local governments from the constitution, both sides are also reportedly working on options available to them, including the possibility of another round of voting.ADVERTISEMENTTo this end,…
The ongoing National Conference in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja was thrown into a state of panic on Monday as a member of the conference revealed that he received a threat message of attack from some unknown terrorists.The delegate, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), told the conference that he received the message via his telephone…
NOBEL Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has likened Nigerian soldiers to the dreaded Islamist sect, Boko Haram.The literary icon, speaking on Saturday night at the grand finale of Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa, described as shocking, the alleged burning on Friday last week of some BRT buses on Ikorodu road, Lagos, by protesting soldiers.Soyinka…