Cameroonian soldiers have launched further attacks against Boko Haram insurgents, shelling one of the sect’s camps inside Nigeria. The Cameroonian soldiers launched the attack across the Nigerian border and killed many of the insurgents, a security official stated on Thursday. The Agence France-Presse quoted the source to have said that the Cameroonian troops shelled the…
The Catholic Church on Thursday complained that Boko Haram insurgents
by: Joseph Jibueze, OwerriA former Anambra State governor, Mr. Peter Obi, Wednesday said corruption thrives in the country because Nigerians worship money.He said the problem with the country is impunity, adding: “the level of greed is unacceptable.”Speaking during a plenary session of the ongoing Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in Owerri,…
by: Austine Tsenzughul, Bauchi Unknown gunmen on Thursday morning attacked an Army camp manned by six armed soldiers at Wunti -Dada, Bauchi State. One of the soldiers, a sergeant, who was also the commander of the camp was killed, while one other army personnel was shot on the leg. The Nation gathered that one of the…
Fire razed several shops and part of a church building after a tanker containing Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, exploded yesterday, at Total depot Dockyard, Apapa Road, area of Lagos. The incident was said to have started at 5:00am and raged till 10:00am before a team of fire fighters from Oando,Total and fire service…
DIRECTOR, Defence Information, Major-General Chris Olukolade, on Wednesday, said the Nigerian Army will soon reassert Nigeria’s sovereignty in portions that have been violated illegally by Boko Haram. “We are definitely working to reverse all those tendencies. We are not conceding any portion of this country to a group of terrorists and the required…
By Our Reporter (LAFIA) Fighting between Fulani herdsmen and farmers from the Eggon ethnic group has left at least 60 people dead in central Nigeria, mostly from machete cuts, police said on Thursday. The clashes broke out on Wednesday in Nasawrawa state, a week after some Eggon villagers accused Fulanis of stealing cattle, Nasarawa police…
Eyewitnesses in the villages near Sambisa forest told SaharaReporters that the insurgents had been moving their families and possibly many of their abductees to safer grounds in towns captured in recent weeks. Villagers living near Sambisa forest in Borno State have reported seeing a large number of Boko Haram militants leaving the wooded redoubt yesterday…
Strong indications emerged on Wednesday that the military high command had started taking decisive steps against security personnel involved in acts inimical to the military tradition. It was gathered on Wednesday that four army officers were arrested for allegedly encouraging some soldiers, who disobeyed a directive on posting to Bama, one of the areas where…
Not less than 40 people have been feared killed in a fresh fight between the Alago and Eggon people of Nasarawa State, yesterday, while over 50 houses were also set ablaze. The fight took place at Tudun Adabu in Obi local government area of the state. An eye witness who was at the scene of…