By Anayo OkoliUMUAHIA—ABIA State Police Command, yesterday, paraded three persons who allegedly snatched three baby girls from their mother at gun point last Friday.The suspects include Felicia Ahukanna, Peace Ogbonna and Oluchukwu Ukpai, all from Alaukwu Autonomous Community of Isiala Ngwa South council of Abia State.The command also paraded one Joseph Edet Essien of Ifetai…
By CHARLES KUMOLUABUJA—MINISTER of Federal Capital Territory, Senator Bala Usman has called on the indigenes of the South East geo-political zone, to ensure that their support for President Goodluck Jonathan’s electoral success in 2011, is replicated in 2015, saying that Igbo were key to the President’s re-election.He said this in a speech titled: Transforming Nigeria:…
Following a recent two-week ultimatum by northern youths, under the aegis of Arewa Youth Development Foundation, AYDF, to Southerners living in the north to relocate, the Mujahid Dokubo-Asariled Niger Delta Peoples Salvation Front, NDPSF, has asked northerners living in the south to leave. It also called for a ‘Republic of Niger Delta’, saying that southerners…
The Islamic militant group, Boko Haram is believed to have been behind the shooting down of the Nigerian Air force helicopter that was on a training mission around Borno state, according to reports by the International Business Times, and Catholic World, including local daily claims. Nigeria’s military helicopter ‘take down,’ coupled with the recent take-over…
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt Gen. Kenneth Minimah said yesterday that the military has not been able to quell Boko Haram insurgency because military personnel were not trained to fight unconventional war like Boko Haram. Minimah spoke at the 9 Brigade, Ikeja Cantonment. He was addressing a troop of 280 soldiers as part…
Barely three days after the Damboa attacks and killings, suspected Boko Haram gunmen attacked the town again and shot dead five residents before fleeing into the forest in Toyota Hilux vehicles and motorcycles. A 78 year-old resident, who refused to flee since the last deadly attack, explained that five masked gunmen attacked the locations where…
The Federal Government, yesterday, vowed to mete out severe sanctions to
Report reaching DailyPost indicates that an explosion just occurred in central Kaduna, killing no fewer than 39 people.The blast occurred Wednesday afternoon along Isa Kaita roads.Premium Times reports that the explosion is believed to have been targeted at the convoy a prominent Islamic cleric, Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi, who was on his way to the Square.A…
Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Kenneth MinimahChiemelie EzeobiAs the war on terrorism rages, the Nigerian Army yesterday expressed its preparedness and readiness to battle the insurgents to a stop, adding that the war on terror is not a one day’s fight.The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Kenneth Minimah, made this disclosure…
by Isiaka WakiliGovernor Isa Yuguda has said that the Boko Haram insurgency has forced two million displaced poeple into Bauchi State.Yuguda was speaking to State House correspondents yesterday shortly after President Goodluck Jonathan met with the parents of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls.The governor said the crisis had been a major challenge in Bauchi because it…