Igbo Leaders have urged the Federal Government and all stakeholders to avert what they termed desperate attempts by Boko Haram insurgents to bomb the South-East, warning that a successful attack in the region portended grave danger for the country. In a statement by their Deputy Secretary, Evang. Elliot Uko, the Igbo Leaders of Thought, ILT,…
Leader of Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, NDPVF, Alhaji Asari Dokubo, has denied allegation that he masterminded the bombing in Kaduna that almost killed former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.)Asari, who spoke in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, said the allegation was part of a ploy by those behind the attack to rubbish him…
There was anxiety yesterday over the whereabouts of the suspected Boko Haram “chief butcher” Mohammed Zakari in police custody. The suspect was arrested on July 15 after a counter-insurgency operation in Balmo forest in Bauchi State, which was rated as the major armoury of the sect. The suspect had been undergoing interrogation in a police…
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s administration promotes hatred, enmity, ethno-religious rivalry and corruption, Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of Kano State said at the weekend. Kwankwaso, who spoke to reporters in his office, said the inability of President Jonathan to tackle insurgency in the North and insecurity in other parts of the country exposes his incompetence to…
Chairman of Bekwarra Local Government Area in Cross River, Ushie Onyi,
Irreconcilable differences between Andrew Yakubu, who was on Friday dropped as Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), and Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke, cost the former his job, it has been revealed. Yakubu and the Managing Director of the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), Mr. Victor Briggs, were unceremoniously dumped via a…
The series of female suicide attack in the city of Kano last week raised serious concerns throughout the country. Many feared that the female suicide bombers most of whom were said to be between the ages of 14 and 19 could be the girls abducted from Government Girls Secondary School Chibok, in Borno State, more…
Ahead of its presidential primary, Nigeria’s biggest opposition party, the All Progressives Congress, has said it will field a presidential candidate that will defeat the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in the 2015 election.The National Publicity Secretary, APC, Lai Mohammed, who stated this in a telephone interview with our correspondents in Abuja on Friday, said Nigerians…
By JULIANA TAIWO-OBALONYE, Abuja President Goodluck Jonathan has assured that the embarrassment caused by Boko Haram insurgents will end in no distant future. He restated his government’s commitment to building strong security agencies so as to deal with the current security challenges in the country. The President stated this when he paid homage to the…
The dreaded Boko Haram sect since its reared its ugly head in 2009 has killed over 10,000 innocent Nigerians and destroyed properties worth billions of naira. What started as an attack on government institutions more than five years ago was to later degenerate into a more sophisticated attack targeting schools, churches, mosques, community and government…