Police sources told Saharareporters that the college had five units in training with each unit having 59 trainees and unit commander. The units affect were two Mobile Police(MOPOL) units from Nasarawa, Gombe and MOPOL 50 from Abuja. Two other units from Zamfara were also at the college during the attack. Boko Haram militants earlier today…
Anti Uwazuruike Commanders takeover MASSOB HeadquartersNo fewer than four people were this morning feared dead and scores wounded as the Commanders of the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) toppled the embattled leader of the group, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike and took over the National Headquarters of the Movement in Okwe, Onuimo…
BRITAIN’s Royal Air Force plans to send three fighter jets to help in locating the more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram insurgents on April 14 this year. The RAF Tornado GR4s equipped with surveillance facilities, according to Daily Mail on Wednesday, will undertake “reconnaissance missions” over the Sambissa Forest where the girls are…
HE Defence Headquarters (DHQ), on Wednesday, described the soldier who granted interview
Abia State Governor, Chief Theodore Orji, has said the opposition AllProgressive Congress ( APC) , cannot win a polling booth in the state inthe 2015 general elections as the party ” does not exist in Abia”. Governor Orji who was reacting to a recent boasting by Governor RochasOkorocha of Imo State who said…
Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, on Tuesday, said the present war against insurgency will not stop unless the Federal Government was ready to tackle it head-on, saying the Federal Government institutions have stolen all the money meant for human and infrastructural development in the country. This is as the governor denied any rift with…
By PETRUS OBI, EnuguThe Chief of Army Staff, Lt General Kenneth Minimah yesterday in Enugu, hinted that firing squad awaits soldiers found to have conspired with members of Boko Haram in the North-East zone of the country.The Chief of Army Staff, who was at the 82 Division, Enugu as part of his familiarisation…
By Abdullahi Shuaibu, LafiaNo fewer than four persons have been killed and several others wounded in a political crisis that engulfed Daddere town in Obi Local Government Area of Nasarawa State. According to an eyewitness account, the clash occurred following the conflict between those supporting the state lawmaker, Sidi Bako and that of…
Nigeria’s total debt stock has again risen to a very high level of N10.4 trillion as at June 2014. The rising debt profile of the country is made up of external debt stock of N1.46 trillion ($9.377 billion), Federal Government domestic debt of N7.421 trillion ($47.653billion).States in the federation have a domestic debt…
SaharaReporters has learned that 30 Nigerian soldiers based in Maiduguri, Borno State, this morning refused to proceed to Bama area to engage insurgents belonging to the dreaded Boko Haram sect.A military officer at Maimalari Barracks told our correspondent over the phone that the soldiers refused orders to fight on the grounds that they were not…