Nigeria has warned civilians that Boko Haram is using deadly cluster bombs but campaigners say the Islamists may have got the banned weapons from the military in the first place. Defence spokesperson Rabe Abubakar urged people to be on their guard for “cluster bombs, sometimes scalled scatter bombs”, as engineers had recently found caches in…
A non-governmental resource centre, Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA), has petitioned the chairman of the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB), to demand an update on an earlier request it made to the bureau over actions of former President Olusegun Obasanjo while in office between 1999 and 2007. The latest petition signed by the centre’s…
Chief of the Defence Staff General Sir Nicholas Houghton has visited Nigeria to see UK military personnel training the Nigeria Armed Forces. General Sir Nicholas Houghton also met with senior Nigerian government officials to discuss how the UK might optimise the training support it can offer. The UK has a resident British Military Advisory and…
A military post at the Kolo Creek in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, primarily stationed in the area to guard an oilfield operated by the Shell Petroleum Development Company, was Saturday, reportedly attacked by unknown gunmen, killing a civilian guard, one Mr. Austin Igwe. The gunmen, who report claimed operated in a Sports…
The Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWA–formerly known as Boko Haram) has released a short video showing its forces overrunning a Nigerian army position in the northeastern Nigerian province of Borno. The date of the incident is unknown, but attacks in Borno happen frequently. The video shows ISWA fighters advancing on the position through an…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF ) Friday called for further devaluation of Naira and remove all import restrictions as part of strategies to further strengthen the country’s economic adjustment programmes with realities of the current global economic conditions. Speaking at a press conference at the just concluded annual meetings of the World Bank and the…
Former Bayelsa Governor, Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha died a few hours ago in a private hospital in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, a source in Bayelsa State confirmed to the News Agency. Alamieyeseigha, who was said to have suffered a cardiac arrest earlier in the week, gave up the ghost today, after having slipped into coma…
Knowlegeable Professor Alexia Thomas is a Nigerian born, British naturalised citizen whose face is very familiar in most homes in the United Kingdom (UK) through her regular legal assistance to hundreds of Commonwealth citizens entering UK having various immigration issues or court representation. This assistance is done through her sound litigation attorneys who offer assistance…
The Board of Trustees of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), under the chairmanship of Mallam Adamu Fika, has re-affirmed its commitment to the indivisibility of Nigeria. They made this affirmation in a statement issued yesterday, in Kaduna, and signed by the National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Muhammad Ibrahim. The statement noted with dismay, the recent embarrassing and…
Following the ongoing travails of Nigeria’s former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, over allegations of money laundering and bribery brought against her by the United Kingdom, UK, National Crime Agency, the family of Rear-Admiral Allison Madueke (Retd), husband of the former minister has finally released a statement to set the records straight. The…