A police patrol van was, on Sunday morning, set ablaze by an angry mob, while some policemen were injured, as hoodlums protested the death of a commercial motorcyclist at Awoyaya area of Ajah, Lagos State.ADVERTISEMENTThe mob was reportedly angered by the death of the commercial motorcyclist and his two passengers, when they were being chased…
Below is the academic proposition by some scholars in the US to the Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton. The letter was copied to Ambassador Johnnie Carson, then Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. Their argument, put forward in strong terms, is that the Jamaatu Ahlil Sunna Lidawati wal Jihad, otherwise known as Boko…
By DICKSON OKAFORThe just concluded national convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been described as a milestone in the political history of Nigeria. Senator Kanti Bello came to this conclusion after the opposition party appointed national leaders recently in Abuja. The maverick politician and three-term lawmaker, who represented Katsina North in the Senate…
A 41-year-old suspected cultist, kidnapper and ritualist, Onwuzuruike Nwakaogwu, has confessed to his involvement in a cult group popularly called Dey-Well at Igwuruta village, Ikwerre Local Government area of Rivers State, just as he revealed the identity of the deceased whose skull was found with him as Victoria. The suspect claimed his efforts at getting…
TOP flight security reports arising from arrests of northerners in the southern region have revealed a plot by one of the leading opposition parties to flood the South-South and South-East geopolitical zones with northern migrant voters ahead of the 2015 presidential polls.ADVERTISEMENTThe plot, already under implementation, has led to movement of thousands of northerners to…
Vice-Chairman, National Conference, Prof. Bolaji AkinyemiThe National Conference may end in chaos as it winds down its activities, Sunday Punch has discovered.Crisis has hit the National Consensus Group of the confab, which was set up to keep the conference and delegates in focus, despite conflicting views and different positions on issues.The consensus group was created…
By CHIDI NNADI, EnuguNo fewer than 220 members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), including leader of the group, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, were yesterday arrested by the soldiers at a check-point at Okigwe, Imo State, for allegedly putting on Biafran uniform.They were arrested on their way to Monobil…
BY NDAHI MARAMA, MAIDUGURIAtleast 12 soldiers, 4 policemen and four civilians were feared killed with the destruction of Divisional Police Headquarters, market, shops, houses and vehicles when about 200 heavy armed gunmen in Toyota Hilux vehicles attacked Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State.Likewise, Vanguard gathered that more than 50 of the terrorists were killed…
Quoting a report by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cable News Network (CNN) published a mind-boggling revelation of how proceeds of kidnappings in the Niger Delta and piracy off the coasts of Nigeria end up in the hands of the Boko Haram sect in the North. What is the implication of…
Not less than 150,000 villagers have fled their villages in Sanga Local Government Area, LGA, of Kaduna State after four days of attacks, last week, by alleged Fulani armed men on native Ninzom communities left about 200 dead.