By SaharaReporters, New York The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF,) on Monday reacted to recent allegations of “confusion and arrogance” by Governor Murtala Nyako, of Adamawa state, by the Federal Government, while acts of genocide continue in the north. The ACF in a press statement issued by their national publicity secretary, Alhaji Muhammadu Ibrahim, insisted that…
ELDERS and youths from the South-South geo-political zone have said that those orchestrating the killing of innocent Nigerians in a bid to frustrate President Goodluck Jonathan from seeking a second term in office will fail. The elders and youths said the President would not be arm-twisted into dropping his second-term ambition. They made this remark…
BY NWABUEZE OKONKWO ONITSHA — A member of the Board of Trustees, BoT, of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Chief Rommy Ezeonwuka, has said that last Monday’s bomb explosion at Nyanya, Abuja, was an indication that Boko Haram insurgents were every where and could strike anywhere, anytime, without challenge. Ezeonwuka, a prominent Igbo…
By SaharaReporters, New York Tears flowed freely on Monday when Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima and Senator Ali Ndumi arrived Chibok, where parents said that 234 girls, not the 129 that has been widely reported, were actually abducted by Boko Haram militants last week from the Girls Secondary School in zChibok. They also confirmed that…
by: Haliwud On a sad note, due to Nigeria’s failing security situation has resulted in a great sense of frustration not just for Nigerians but also foreigners. Due to the recent negative media attention on an international scale, about 20 countries have advised their citizens to stay away from Nigeria, mostly due to last week’s…
The British Homeland Security has deported Mrs. Helen Ukpabio, the President and Founder of one of Nigeria’s largest Pentecostal churches believed to be leading the spread of witch-hunting in the country. A United Kingdom based human right activist and charity worker, Ms. Modupe Debbie Ariyo announced this in a one paragraph sentence via her Facebook…
The lack of political will to fight insecurity has again been identified as the major challenge in Nigeria, as it battles with insurgency. National Secretary-General of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, Ahmed Sulaiman, was a guest of Sunrise Daily on Channels Television and he expressed his view that the first problem was that “something is…
by Ahmed A. Mohammed (Bauchi) & Ibrahim Kabiru Sule (Abuja), DailyTrustUnidentified gunmen attacked the Government Girls Secondary School in Yana, Bauchi State yesterday, where they set fire to staff homes and seized the principal’s car.The incident came a week after a similar attack at a girls’ secondary school in Chibok, Borno State, in which more…
By Soni Daniel, Victor Ahiuma-Young, Levinus Nwabughiogu, Umar Yusuf & Ndahi Marama LAGOS—General Yakubu Gowon, who led Nigeria through a 30-month civil war, yesterday, lamented that the country had fallen into full scale civil war with the spate of crises in the northeast. His assertion was corroborated by the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and…
By peter uzoma Barely twelve months, precisely 11th April, 2013, when the former police commissioner, Imo command, Mr Muhammed Katsina led a crack police squad to Nzurum Ejemekwuru community in Oguta LGA, to recover the remains of one Mrs Lucy Osuigwe who was allegedly killed by her son for ritual purposes and kept her in…