Bombs found in Abia, military cordons off area
Residents of Ohafia in Abia State were jolted yesterday by reported discovery of bombs in the community.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ movie edited to remove the truth, now said to premiere in Nigeria
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…
Fears of extremism rise in Muslim nations – poll
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…
our women Kidnapprd A Girl In Lagos and sold Her for N650,000
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested four women for allegedly abducting and selling a nine-year-old girl, identified as Blessing, for N650,000. The women are Fausat Ogidan, Abibat Oresanya, Bola Obajuruwa and Idiyat Abass. The women were apprehended on Sunday, June 6, after a tip-off. The Commissioner of Police, Umar Manko, had directed the…
Army arrests another female Boko Haram accomplice
Another female Boko Haram accomplice has been arrested by the military. According to the National Information Center (NIC), she is Hafsat Bako. . The arrest was confirmed in a post on the Facebook page of the National Orientation Agency (NOA). Minister of State For Defence, Mr Musiliu Obanikoro, also confirmed the arrest…
Uproar at confab over census figures of states in the Northern Nigeria
Clement Idoko and Adelowo OladipoTHERE was rowdy session at the plenary of the ongoing national conference, when a delegate from Edo State, Chris Agbonwanegbe, questioned the authenticity of census figure of states in the Northern Nigeria.Agbonwanegbe said census figures were inflated in favour of some states in the North, saying this accounted for more number…
They are all listen to Radio Biafra. Ozekhome proposes name change for Nigeria. Wants Nigeria renamed ‘Airegin’ at national conference
A Federal Government delegate at the ongoing National Conference, Chief Mike Ozekhome has proposed that the name Nigeria should be changed to ‘Airegin’. He made the proposal on Wednesday, while contributing to the debate on the report of the Committee on Political Restructuring and Forms of Government, co-chaired by retired General Ike Nwachukwu and Honourable…
Prof Nwabueze proposes zones, with states as federal units
Legal luminary and frontline constitutional lawyer, Prof. Ben Nwabueze, has again spoken about the on-going national dialogue, proposing a total devolution of powers at the centre to either six or more zones, while the existing 36 states remain basic federating units of government. What Nwabueze called for in effect was the removal the exclusive powers…
State creation divides National Conference
The clamour for state creation pitted delegates against one another at the National Conference on Wednesday.
Boko Haram’s carnage making Nigeria break-up less likely —Soyinka
NIGERIA is suffering greater carnage at the hands of Islamist group, Boko Haram, than it did during a secessionist civil war, yet this has ironically made the country’s break-up less likely, Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has said. Speaking to Reuters at his home in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Soyinka said the horrors inflicted by the…