A car laden with bombs yesterday exploded at the ever busy Folawiyo junction on Creek Road, Apapa, killing four persons, while several others were injured. Eyewitnesses told Vanguard that the car, a Mercedes-Benz 190, exploded around 8:30pm, after it was parked beside a fuel tanker heading into Folawiyo tank farm.Wreckage of the car The explosion…
Some members of the Islamist sect, Boko Haram, arrested yesterday at Mairi ward behind University of Maiduguri by members of the Civilian JTF vigilante group, have confessed that most of them are fleeing the Sambisa Forest to areas across Borno State owing to what they believe is spiritual attacks from mysterious snakes and bees, which…
The Abia State House of Assembly has denied involvement of the state in the interception and arrests of the 486 suspected Boko Haram insurgents by soldiers in the state, while reportedly on transit to Port Harcourt, Rivers State. This Assembly’s reaction against the backdrop of the legal threat recently reported in the media by the…
Military officers and men were placed on red alert yesterday — no thanks to the increasingly daring moves of the deadly Boko Haram sect. Fears of likely infiltration or inducement of officers and men have made the military hierarchy to recall those on leave, The Nation learnt. Besides, the military has placed restrictions on Facebook…
A senior Nigerian military officer has just confirmed to SaharaReporters that more than twenty people have died in a fresh attack by gunmen in the troubled southern Kaduna area. Earlier today, SaharaReporters had reported that at least 40 people were killed in three villages in the Sanga local government area of Kaduna State. According to…
Cameroon’s military has arrested 40 suspected Boko Haram militants in the north of the country. Soldiers have also sealed off a market where they suspect Boko Haram may be hiding arms for use in the insurgency over the border in Nigeria. “A gendarme [military] raid on the Maroua Central Market has led to the arrests…
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja yesterday dismissed the six-month old legal move by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to sack five of its governors who defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The court entered the verdict after it voided the service of court processes filed in the case and served on the…
A pan Igbo socio-cultural and political organisation, Obigbo, at the weekend,
The umbrella body for youths, Ijaw Youth Council Worldwide, has warned that any attempt to truncate the leadership of President Goodluck Jonathan will spell doom for Nigeria. The threat is contained in resolutions reached after the IYC convention on June 22 and June 23, 2014, in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, a statement by IYC spokesman, Eric…
Mr. Jonathan mentioned that terrorists take advantage of pastoralism to cause mayhem among communities in the country. Federal officials at the Ministry of Agriculture in Abuja are working on a comprehensive livestock information system that will require all cattle in the country to carry electronic chips, while satellite imagery and remote sensing technology are deployed…