A Nigerian preacher, Helen Ukpabio, a self styled witch hunter, could be banned from the UK following calls to Home Secretary Theresa May that she is a risk to youngsters.Ukpabio who founded the controversial African Evangelical Franchise Liberty Foundation Gospel Ministries in Nigeria, has published her views around the demonic possession of children in several…
by Chukwudi AkasikeAT least, five persons were killed in Ogbogu, Ogba Egbema Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State by unknown gunmen suspected to be assassins.It was gathered that the incident, which happened at about 8.30pm on Wednesday, caused pandemonium in the community as the suspected assassins detonated explosives at the house of the President-General…
Nnenna IbehAn apparently embarrassed Nigerian military on Thursday backtracked on its claim that it freed majority of the 129 female students of the Government Girls’ Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, abducted on Monday night by suspected Boko Haram members.The spokesperson of the Defence Headquarters, DHQ, Chris Olukolade, had said 107 of the girls were freed…
By Nicholas Ibekwe Nigerians have reacted with outrage over President Goodluck Jonathan’s visit to Kano to welcome former governor of the state, Ibrahim Shekarau, to the Peoples Democratic Party, a day after a car bomb killed dozens of Nigeria and injured several others in a suburb of Abuja. The government said 75 people died while…
“They simply walked right into the palace of the monarch and shot him in his bedroom.” About 20 villagers including a monarch were killed after gunmen, suspected to be Boko Haram terrorists, attacked two villages in different parts of Borno state on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, security sources and witnesses said. In one of…
15 people were killed yesterday in the Wukari area of Taraba State in an ethnic-religious clash. A security officer told SaharaReporters that the killings occurred in Nwunkyo-Kura, where eight people were killed, and Wukari town where seven died. The source further disclosed that the clashes led to the imposition of a 24-hour curfew following consultations…
by ‘Jola SotuboA young woman in Lagos is receiving medical treatment after she was found close to death in a hotel in the FESTAC town area of the state.22-year-old Awe Rebecca is said to have been drugged by a South African businessman whom she was lodged with.The victim was said to have been in a…
By Ameh Comrade Godwin Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has described Nigeria as a nation in war, that needs competent leaders and not just prayers to survive.Soyinka, who was a keynote speaker at a colloquium with the theme, Fundamental Imperatives of Cohabitation, Faith and Secularism, organised by Centre for Black Culture and International Understanding, CBCIU,…
Secondary school girls in northern Nigeria. Photo Credit: Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP/Getty ImagesBy Saharareporters, New YorkSaharaReporters has just learned that suspected members of the Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, have abducted 103 students in a daring raid at the Girls Secondary School in Chibok, a town on the border between Borno and Adamawa States. The group’s…
The United States on Monday condemned a bomb attack on a packed bus station in Nigeria which killed 71 people, and called for a full investigation.“We are outraged by this senseless act of violence against innocent civilians,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters, also condemning a series of attacks on three villages in Borno…