The executive director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Prof. Babatunde Osotimehin called on the US-led coalition of nations fighting ISIS in Syria and Iraq to extend their force of arm to Boko Haram fighters in Northern Nigeria. He made the call at the Christian Association of Nigerian-Americans (CANAN)’s annual dinner held yesterday at…
Boko Haram fighters today killed at least 70 soldiers in a fierce battle between insurgents and Nigerian troops for control of the towns of Bazza and Vimtim in Adamawa State. Vimtim is thehometown of Nigeria’s Chief of Defense Staff, Alex Badeh. In the battle, which is ongoing at the time of this report, Nigerian troops…
Heavy fighting between Nigerian troops and Boko Haram terrorists ensued yesterday in Adamawa State as soldiers backed from the air by Nigerian Airforce attack helicopters launched an attack to retake territories in the possession of Boko Haram. In the ensuing battle that continued into the night, Vanguard gathered that about 400 Boko Haram terrorist had…
Three weeks after 116 people, of whom 84 South Africans lost their lives when a six-storey guest house attached to the Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, Ikotun-Egbe, Lagos, collapsed, fresh indications have emerged that the South-African government and the Nigerian authorities in Lagos are bickering over alleged inadequate mortuary and facilities which may have…
The Nigerian Army has concluded arrangements to arraign 16 soldiers over the April 14, 2014,
Dan Etete An anti-corruption group, Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders, CACOL, has petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to investigate Nigerian politicians indicted by Italian investigators in the acquisition of a OPL 245 oil field by Eni, the parent company of Nigeria Agip Oil Company. In the petition signed by its chairman, Debo Adeniran, CACOL,…
by PREMIUM TIMES South African authorities have confiscated yet another US$5.7 million arms money from Nigeria, nearly three weeks after seizing $9.3 million in cash transported by two Nigerians and an Israeli for arms purchase, South Africa-based City Express reported Monday. Nigeria’s National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) As with the…
By Daniel Abia Snr. Correspondent, P/HarcourtInternational Ministers Forum (IMF) has appealed to the Nigerian Army and the Federal Government to avoid the temptation of killing the 92 soldiers alleged to have committed various degrees of offences following their refusal to confront the Boko Haram terrorist sect in the battle of Konduga.The forum said killing of…
By DAVID MOLOMO, YolaThe father of the former Special Adviser on Political Matters to President Goodluck Jonathan, Ahmed Gulak has lost his father to the insurgency in his hometown, Gulak, in the Northern Senatorial District of Adamawa State.The decomposed body of late Alhaji Ali Gillari ,who was among those trapped in the community when the…
LALALooks like things are not going to get better anytime soon for the enstranged couple Chris Oyakhilome and Anita.PremiumTimes reports exclusively that, Mr. Oyakhilome is no longer a trustee of the United Kingdom’s branch of the church.With Mr. Oyakhilome’s removal, his wife, Anita, now presides over a seven-man Board of Trustees of the N8.2 billion…