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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The clamour for state creation pitted delegates against one another at the National Conference on Wednesday.
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…
{youtube}ruTMPcoiPWI|560|315{/youtube} Team of the IPOB on the way to Ihe in Ogwu L.G.A to visit the victims of the Fulani herdsmen a.k.a the boko haram advance guard who have already invaded Biafraland. They are hacking our mothers with machetes and raping them and Igbo men sit by and watch. This is only the beginning….. {youtube}3wkgOIpMsno|560|315{/youtube}…
Bola Tinubu’s Friends Created Boko Haram – Nigeria’s Minister of State For Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro “The Boko Haram mess we are dealing with was created by Tinubu’s friends who promised to make Nigeria ungovernable for this Government” – Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, Minister of State for Defence. The minister of state for defence, Senator Musiliu…