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…
BRITISH High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr Andrew Pocock, has said 60 per cent of British government’s donation to Nigeria goes to the northern part of the country.“Indeed, 60 per cent of the British development assistance that we put into this country comes into the Northern Nigeria,” Pocock said, adding that this was because the United…
YAOUNDE (AFP) – In the villages that line the border with Nigeria, even those charged with protecting Cameroonians from Boko Haram fighters fear the fall of darkness.“When night falls, we tremble. We don’t sleep,” said a Cameroonian policeman from a far-northern border town, on condition of anonymity.The Nigeria-born Islamist group has stepped up raids into…
Northern delegates at the on-going National Conference, under the auspices of Northern Delegates Forum, NDF, yesterday told Nigerians not to allow Boko Haram insurgency to divide the nation, describing the banning of registration of citizens by President Goodluck Jonathan as a good development. A statement signed by the NDF’s spokesman, Anthony Sani, reminded Nigerians that…
Four persons from Aguleri in Anambra East Local Government Area of Anambra State were yesterday murdered and seven others seriously injured in a renewed clash between the people of Aguleri and Echeno/Odeke in Ibaji Local Government Area of Kogi State. Since the discovery of oil in the Omambala River basin, the two border communities have…
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday met with some parents and 51 escaped schoolgirls of Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, exactly 99 days after the abduction incident. Over 200 girls were abducted by the deadly Boko Haram sect from the school premises since April 14. The meeting was held behind closed doors at the Banquet Hall…
The effects of the new era of energy sources may have hit hard on Nigeria’s export market,
File Photo: Crude OilSpecifically, the three countries accounted for more than a third of Nigeria’s crude export in February, purchasing 26.75 million barrels of oil.Specifically, India purchased 10.44 million barrels of crude oil from Nigeria in the month under review, followed by the Netherlands, with 9.385 million barrels, and Brazil 6.922 million barrels.Using an average…
A Nigerian Air Force Mi-35 Helicopter on a training mission on Monday crashed due to a technical fault at a location South of Bama, Borno State, the Director of Information, Nigeria Defence Headquarters, Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade, said in a press statement.Some observers, however, reasoned that the craft could have been blown off by the…
By AbdulSalam MuhammadKANO— Former Nigerian Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Alhaji Maitama Sule, yesterday warned northern youths against being used to compromise the unity of the country, asking them to embrace dialogue.Sule, who spoke in Kano when the leadership of Arewa Youth Development Forum paid him a courtsey visit, said dialogue was the best…