No fewer than 14 people were killed in Jibwhiwhui village of Hawul Local Government area of Borno State and its surrounding villages when gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram insurgents invaded the area. Hawul, is south and about 220 kilometres drive from Maiduguri, the state capital, which is under serious attacks by insurgents following nondeployment…
One of the retired Generals, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who visited Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, on Friday, was said to have voiced out to some of his close associates that he would not mind putting on his military uniform again in the face of the embarrassing declaration of an Islamic state in the North…
By TIMOTHY OLANREWAJU, MAIDUGURI■ Residents unsure of safety of trapped relations■ As Catholic Church laments siege to parishesMusa Yakubu’s biggest worry was the safety of his septuagenarian uncle who has been trapped in the hilly Gwoza town, southeast of Borno since Boko Haram sacked the community and reportedly declared it its territory.“I am very worried…
by SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORKSuspected insurgents belonging to the Islamist sect, Boko Haram, yesterday attacked the towns of Dikwa and Marte in Borno, with the Emir of Dikwa escaping death by fleeing to Maiduguri, the state capital. Boko Haram leader Abubakar ShekauA close aide of the emir told SaharaReporters that the heavily armed insurgents stormed Dikwa…
As a result of the grab all mentality of Okorocha and his anti poor, anti peoples philosophy which discourages social spending and sold public properties to himself under the guise of private-sector driven economy. This itself is corruption as the huge revenue at the disposal of the government is not primarily meant, in the eyes…
By Vincent Ujumadu, Awka The crisis rocking the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has taken a new twist with the organization’s director of information, Mr. Uchenna Madu warning members to steer clear of the meeting convened in Owerri today by its leader, Chief Ralph Uwazurike as there is most…
Bishop Wale Oke BY OLA AJAYI, IBADANPresiding Bishop, The Sword of the Spirit Ministries, Bishop Francis Wale Oke has said President Goodluck Jonathan should prove to Nigerians that they do not have weakling and lame duck as leaders by dealing decisively with the Islamic sect, Boko Haram for declaring a caliphate in Gwoza.Oke said Nigerians…
The South-East chapter of the All Progressives Congress [APC] has warned its Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] counterpart against the adoption of President Goodluck Jonathan for the 2015 presidential election.It noted that the president had repeatedly failed the people of the zone and that it would be fatal for the entire zone to endorse him.The party…
There is serious anxiety at the Defence Headquarters, DHQ, following the capture of Gwoza and neighbouring towns in Borno State by the terrorists sect, Boko Haram, a week ago. This is even as the Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Lt. Gen. Kenneth Minimah, is said to be leading troops to reclaim Gwoza and other parts…
It appears that Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State may not present himself