PHOTO: Book Haram snipersBodies remain littered on the streets of a northern Nigerian town two days after it was seized by militant Islamists, a lawmaker has told the BBC. Boko Haram fighters were patrolling the streets of Bama, preventing people from burying the dead, Ahmed Zanna said.On Wednesday, the state government denied the town had…
A Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered 20 Commercial banks in Nigeria to dishonour all withdrawal cheques from Mr. Sani Dangote, younger brother to Alhaji Aliko Dangote, and his companies, Dansa Foods Limited and Bulk Pack Services Limited. Justice Okon Abang, who made the order on Thursday in a bench ruling, said the…
A group of dismissed Nigerian soldiers have appealed to the Presidency and the Nigerian Security Council to look into their cases and recall them, having not been properly discharged from the army. Some of the dismissed soldiers who spoke to newsmen in Asaba, the Delta State capital on Thursday, said that since 1979, about 10,000 soldiers…
Twenty four hours after Boko Haram insurgents attacked Bama town in Borno state, the sect members yesterday, in a convoy of Toyota Hilux vehicles and motorcycles took over another border town of Banki, after killing unconfirmed number of residents, as others fled to Cameroon. According to a resident, Ibrahim Musa, in a telephone interview from…
Despite being Africa’s largest economy, Nigeria’s global competitiveness has dropped seven places to 127th position.According to the Global Competitiveness Report 2014-2015, Infrastructure (human and physical) continue to be Nigeria’s toughest challenges.The report attributed the decline in global competitiveness “to weakness in public finances (as a result of lower oil exports), continuing institutional frailty and deterioration…
United States officials fear Islamic militants have stolen nearly a dozen commercial planes in Libya which could be used to carry out 9/11-style terrorist attacks in the region. Eleven commercial jets operated by two state-owned airlines went missing last month, after militant group Libyan Dawn overtook the international airport in the capital city of Tripoli.
The Ozara Community in Oru West local government area of Imo State
I have a few reports so I have confirmed it also that now some foods coming in are being poisoned, apples, watermelon through the docks in the east also as they pass through Yoruba/Hausa hands. (Also as sugar comes through Dangote this also concerns me as the poor drink Garri and sugar not to starve).…
Australian negotiator, Dr Stephen Davis, has raised questions over the value of the United States (US) involvement in Nigeria’s war against Boko Haram. He has also given an insight into how the insurgents ambushed Nigerian soldiers, as a result of the hostile terrain in the North-East.Davis, who was in the country for four months, trying…
President Goodluck Jonathan, on Tuesday, said atrocities of terrorist groups active in the Sahelo-Saharan region, including Boko Haram, the Lord Resistant Army and Al-Shabaab, bear testimony to the challenge still facing African leaders.He said although African countries are now equipped in terms of legal, political and normative instruments, the tasks now were to ensure their…