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2015: Opposition floods so-called South with Northern migrant voters •Arrested suspects open up •As security reports fingers Senator

TOP flight security reports arising from arrests of northerners in the southern region have revealed a plot by one of the leading opposition parties to flood the South-South and South-East geopolitical zones with northern migrant voters ahead of the 2015 presidential polls.ADVERTISEMENTThe plot, already under implementation, has led to movement of thousands of northerners to…

Confab threatened as consensus group splits

Vice-Chairman, National Conference, Prof. Bolaji AkinyemiThe National Conference may end in chaos as it winds down its activities, Sunday Punch has discovered.Crisis has hit the National Consensus Group of the confab, which was set up to keep the conference and delegates in focus, despite conflicting views and different positions on issues.The consensus group was created…

Ralph Uwazuruike and 220 MASSOB members arrested by Nigerian Soldiers

By CHIDI NNADI, EnuguNo fewer than 220 members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), includ­ing leader of the group, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, were yesterday arrested by the soldiers at a check-point at Okigwe, Imo State, for allegedly put­ting on Biafran uniform.They were arrested on their way to Monobil…

50 terrorists, 12 soldiers, policemen killed in Borno attacks

BY NDAHI MARAMA, MAIDUGURIAtleast 12 soldiers,  4 policemen and four civilians were feared killed with the destruction of Divisional Police Headquarters, market, shops, houses and vehicles when about 200 heavy armed gunmen in  Toyota Hilux vehicles attacked Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State.Likewise,  Vanguard gathered that more than 50 of the terrorists were killed…

How Boko Haram, Niger Delta militants collaborate —FBI

Quoting a report by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cable News Network (CNN) published a mind-boggling revelation of how proceeds of kidnappings in the Niger Delta and piracy off the coasts of Nigeria end up in the hands of the Boko Haram sect in the North. What is the implication of…

Kaduna violence: Over 150,000 flee

Not less than 150,000 villagers have fled their villages in Sanga Local Government Area, LGA, of Kaduna State after four days of attacks, last week, by alleged Fulani armed men on native Ninzom communities left about 200 dead.

Umeh bombs Okorocha, Uwazuruike

By CHIDI OBINECHE…Says MASSOB is deadNational Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Chief Victor Umeh has laid bare a number of issues surrounding the crisis-torn par­ty and the late Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu’s camp. Umeh who recently secured an em­phatic victory at the Abuja division of the Federal Court of Appeal on the lingering…

How Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram Smuggle Arms Into Nigeria

Proliferation of small arms and light weapons is increasingly and dangerously becoming a transnational organized crime in Nigeria, with Boko Haram’s insurgency, re-emerging Niger Delta crisis and escalating kidnapping, communal crises and armed robbery in the South East providing impetus for arms trafficking. Some border towns, particularly in the North Eastern flank, serve as a…

S’East Gov’s wish hit a brick wall as Lawmaker insists creation of more states is a waste of resources.

Lawmaker representing Alimosho constituency (1) in the Lagos House of Assembly, Bisi Yusuf, has described current attempts to create more states in the country as unnecessary and a waste of resources.Speaking to House correspondents yesterday, Yusuf said that many of the already existing states are not viable and cannot survive without depending on allocation from…

The Mohammadian Emirates’ Battle for the zoo: North launches attack on Monday •Northern govs to storm confab •We’re ready for them —Southern leaders

A major confrontation between Northern and Southern political leaders may take place in Abuja on Monday unless a plan by governors from the North to storm Abuja that day against the national conference is called off.ADVERTISEMENTA competent source told Saturday Tribune on Friday that following a meeting held by certain leaders of the North, including…