There are strong indications that more Nigerians in the North are resorting to self help by taking up arms against the terrorist group, Boko Haram. Members of vigilante groups in the region are said to be procuring small arms. The groups are different from the Volunteer Vigilance Youths’ Group, popularly known as the ‘Civilian JTF,’…
Gunmen operating in Southern Kaduna have killed 33 people in a village called Ambie and another 10 in Paa village. A security source told SaharaReporters that the killings took place in the late and early hours of Saturday. The latest killings bring to about 200 the number of people killed since Monday in Sanga local…
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By TONY JOHN, PORT HARCOURT Youths of Niger Delta region have declared that no amount of terrorism by the Boko Haram would stop President Goodluck Jonathan’s second term bid.The youths made the statement yesterday, when they paid a courtesy visit on the Special Adviser on Youths to the Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission…
SINCE 1953, exactly seven years before independence, which was consummated on October 1, 1960, Nigeria has been a haven for flurry of political and ethno-religious mayhem, which have claimed about 3.5million lives. After the Kano riots of 1953 that claimed many lives, violence has become a recurring decimal in the country. If two or three…
The heavy loss recorded by the All Progressives Congress, APC, at the last governorship election in Ekiti State has thrown the progressives camp in the north in disarray. The northern progressives in the APC had aligned with the South- West progressives entirely to upstage the Peoples Democratic Party in the coming 2015 general election but…
The funeral Mass for the late Justice Chukwudifu Oputa yesterday ended
Panic again gripped residents of Enugu State yesterday following a rumour that Boko Haram was set to bomb the Army Command Nursery and Primary School at the 82 Division of the Nigerian Army Headquarters in the state. It was gathered that tension gripped the people around the 82 Division when two persons were seen in…
Police in the northern Nigeria city of Kano foiled what would have looked like a replay of January 20, 2012, when working on a tip off by a 10-year old boy saved hundreds of lives in Kano on Friday. A rickety Toyota car primed with 13 high caliber Improvised Explosive Devices, (IEDs) was discovered by…
21 suspected members of the Boko Haram sect arrested in Enugu State last Wednesday have been transferred to the Force Headqaurters, Abuja for further questioning by the State Police Command.