Federal Government yesterday said that it has so far released the sum of N130.7 billion of the 2014 bugdet to the military between January and April, this year.Out of this amount, N86.9 billion is for personnel cost.Briefing newsmen in Abuja, Co-ordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, said that the…
• Emir of Zazzau, Tor Tiv also victimsThis is certainly not a good season for Vice President Namadi Sambo. He is not only battling to be relevant in a government he is second in command, the former governor of Kaduna State is equally contending with influential forces within the rank of some Northern governors angling…
THE Movement for Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Friday raised an alarm over what it called a plot by members of the Boko Haram sect to bomb the popular Onitsha main market and some other markets in the South-East geo-political zone.It therefore warned that MASSOB would resist any attempt to perpetrate such terrorism…
Plateau State Governor, Jonah Jang, lamented Friday in Jos that the unabated reign of terror by the murderous Islamist sect – Boko Haram – has placed the country in a war situation, adding that until they are defeated, Nigeria would not know peace.Jang was speaking in Jos while inspecting the scene of Tuesday’s twin bomb…
While speaking at a campaign rally yesterday, Uganda’s President, Yoweri Museveni mocked President Jonathan for accepting foreign assistance to help fight Boko Haram. The former guerrila fighter said he’d rather commit suicide than ask the international community to protect his people against terrorists “I have never called the United Nations to guard us. Me,…
Captain Kenneth Onubah and his colleagues were killed by Boko Haram militants in an ambush last Wednesday. He was from ifite Oraifite in Anambra state. Biafra Galaxy
Brigadier General M.Y. Ibrahim, the newly posted General Officer Commanding the 7th Division of the Nigerian Army located at Maimalari Barracks in Maiduguri got a taste of the soldiers’ fury on Thursday afternoon as some angry soldiers stormed his office to demand that he pay their allowances and reinstate motorbikes to transport them and members…
By EMMANUEL UZOR, Onitsha …As police foil bizman’s kidnap in Onitsha The former Commissioner for Science and Technology under former Governor Peter Obi’s administration, Mr. Chike Okoli has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen suspected to be kidnappers in Agulu, Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra State. This was just as policemen foiled another attempt to…
The harm these so called Fulani Herdsmen are causing in our society is very worrisome. No fewer than nine of them allegedly rapéd a 15-year-old girl and two housewives at gunpoint, in Tse Ikyuer, Yandev, Mbagwen in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State.Two of the victims, who narrated their ordeal in Makurdi, the state…
THIRTEEN Igbo groups rose from a meeting in Enugu yesterday declaring their support for the measures being adopted by President Goodluck Jonathan in tackling insurgency caused by the Islamist group, Boko Haram in the country.After reviewing the present state of affairs in the country, the groups noted in an 11-point communiqué that the mindless pillorying…