By SAM EYOBOKA & OLAYINKA LATONAFORMER military Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (rtd.) and the National President, Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, yesterday, charged Muslim religious, political and traditional leaders to take advantage of the current Ramadan season to engage the dreaded Islamist sect, Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati Wal Jihad, also…
by: niyi The United States of America has warned its citizens planning to travel to or within Abuja this weekend to take extra precautionary measures for their personal security and safety.In a message from US to its citizens in Abuja, the US mission in Nigeria said that the security message had become necessary in view…
Reports of arrests of suspected members of Boko Haram and pockets of incidents similar to alleged plot of the insurgents to extend their nefarious activities to some parts of the South Eastern part of Nigeria, have attracted the attention of an Igbo group who has warned against the incursion of the dreaded sect into Igboland.The…
A total of 222,437,870 barrels of crude oil was unaccounted for by the Nigerian government in the period between 2004 and 2014, a report by the watchdog, Nigeria Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (NEITI), has revealed. At an average cost of $100 per barrel over the period, the country is estimated to have lost a total…
The Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) has solicited for the support and cooperation of foreign military mission in the country as part of the efforts towards tackling the current security challenges in Nigeria. The Chief of Defence Intelligence (CDI), Rear Admiral Gabriel Edmund Okoi, made the appeal recently in Abuja while addressing foreign Defence Advisers/Attaches (DAs)…
THE national conference, on Thursday, approved the creation of 18 additional states across the country, as a way of meeting the yearning and aspirations of the people. The conference also resolved that the office of the President of Nigeria shall now rotate between the North and South and revolve among the six geopolitical zones of…
A lot of horse-trading reportedly went into the deal that eventually culminated in the decision by the national conference to create additional 18 states from the existing 36, Nigerian Tribune has reliably learnt. Delegates from the North had reportedly opposed the idea of creation of new states, particularly the central objective of proportionate representation in…
Residents of Ohafia in Abia State were jolted yesterday by reported discovery of bombs in the community.
THE film adaptation of a novel by the Nigerian author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, published in 2006 by Knopf/Anchor, will soon be premiered in Nigeria, Nigerian Tribune has gathered.Sources reaching Nigerian Tribune revealed that the previously restricted ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ movie, which the Nigerian Censors Board stopped it’s Nigerian premiere months ago, has been…
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Fears about Islamic extremism are rising in nations with large Muslim populations from the Middle East to South Asia and support for radical groups is on the slide, according to a poll released Tuesday.Concern about extremism has increased in the past 12 months amid the dragging war in Syria and attacks by…