Kano – Two suicide bombers killed a soldier at a checkpoint in Boko Haram’s heartland in northeastern Nigeria, vigilantes helping troops in the fight against the jihadists told AFP on Wednesday. The militants, a man and a woman, were in a motorised rickshaw stopped by a soldier on the outskirts of Borno state capital Maiduguri…
Nigeria’s economy may be heading for trouble, as oil price crashed even lower at the weekend, thereby threatening the 2015 budget and fiscal plan. The international price of crude hit a six-year low below USD40 per barrel with West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures as low as USD39.89, while Brent crude declined further to USD45.10…
A soldier attached to 82 Division, Enugu, told the state and National Assembly Elections Petitions Tribunal that a lawmaker, Chukwuemeka Ujam, was caught with 4,000 permanent voters cards on election day. The soldier said Mr. Ujam was intercepted at Ozalla, on the Enugu-Port Harcourt expressway on March 28 while the election was going on. “He…
Kudos! Radio Biafra shortwave (SW) frequency is 15560 kHz in the 19 meter band. Yes, the SW frequency is back to stay. Obviously, this is not only another feather on the cap of the independently verified and well acknowledged No. 1 trending Radio Station Worldwide but a big news of another step in the right…
The terrorist sect, Boko Haram, is believed to have dispatched no fewer than 80 of its members to join forces with the ISIS extremists fighting in Libya, an agency report said yesterday. Boko Haram insurgents are also suspected to be fighting in Niger Republic in what is being interpreted as the strengthening of its ties…
The controversial so called pirate channel, Radio Biafra, has again resumed transmission, despite the Federal Government’s claim that it had jammed the station’s signals. The Federal Government had on July 14 announced that it jammed the transmission signals of the radio station, which was operating illegally from an unknown location. Our correspondent observed that the…
The International Criminal Court has commenced investigation of the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu (ex Police Assistant Inspector General of Police) for statements made about the Igbo’s in the build-up to the Lagos governorship election. In the statement, available on line, Mr. Akiolu vowed that Igbos in Lagos who voted against his preferred candidate, Akinwunmi…
BY PRINCE DARLINGTON CHUKWUBUIKEM Great People of Biafra, Following the News headline of Naija News Paper of 21st August 2015 which Head line says (Nigeria Needs A Hero – By -FFK) I will run a simple analysis and response on this article written by FFK in form of Question and Answer, I shall do justice…
Unfolding events point to a “no smoke without fire” situation. The Nigerian validly issued visa to “ISIS Emir” to visit their “brotherhood” members and affiliate – Boko Haram from Lebanon has let the cat out of the bag. When the immediate formal government of Jonathan was in power developments like these were not common. The…
The tip of the iced berg is that the ISIS Emir and Lebanese fugitive was arrested as he flees to Nigeria, and now, the world is asking – did Nigeria’s new regime arrange the abortive escape of Ahmad al-Assir? Nigeria’s new regime of President Muhammadu Buhari may have granted visa to a fleeing ‘ISIS Emir’,…