The Defence Headquarters said yesterday that a wanted terror suspect was among the 486. It also said other security agencies and para-military organisations had joined the ongoing screening of the suspects. The Director of Defence Information, Gen. Chris Olukolade, in a statement last night in Abuja, said: “A terror kingpin on the list of wanted…
Former Vice-President and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has appealed to the aggrieved members to remain loyal to the party “as there is reward for loyalty”. Top leaders of the party, including former Borno State governor, Modu Sheriff; Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi and Chief Tom Ikimi have expressed misgiving…
Niger Delta representatives at the on-going National Conference have been charged to insist on a 50 percent
Leader of the South- South delegates to the ongoing National Conference, Chief Edwin Clark, yesterday, dissociated the region from a document insisting on self determination,total resource control for the oil-rich area. He said the zone did not know the source of the document and it did not represent the stand of leaders and residents of…
An explosion has hit northern Nigeria’s Yobe state at a venue televising a World Cup football match, residents and security officials say. The blast hit Damaturu town at about 20:00 local time (19:00 GMT), reports said. There were reports of casualties being brought into hospitals, but it is not clear if there were any deaths.…
National Conference Committee on Transportation yesterday advocated the urgent completion of the Ajaokuta Steel Company as a way of removing the nation’s economy from the woods. Presenting the report and recommendations of the committee at the plenary, chairman of the committee, Senator Musa Adede, said what is required to complete the project is less than…
President Goodluck Jonathan’s refusal to cough out N1 Billion for former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s library project is reason both leaders fell apart, Pointblanknews.com gathered. General Olusegun Obasanjo had conceived the idea of a Presidential library patterned after the Presidential Libraries concept in the United States, which was pioneered by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.A fundraising event…
The Imo State Government has announced far reaching security measures, following the botched bomb attack targeted at the Living Faith Church, Winners Chapel, Owerri on Sunday.Announcing the eight-point measures, yesterday, in Owerri, after several hours of special security meeting he held with security chiefs and a cross section of Imo people, Governor Rochas Okorocha, said…
Gunmen have abducted 78-year-old Patimi Akene, the mother of the Bayelsa State Commissioner for Lands and Survey,Bayelsa State Commissioner for Lands and SurveyThe abduction of Patimi came 18 days after Ogboro Orumo, 90-year-old mother-in-law of Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Tombowei Benson, was kidnapped.Orumo’s whereabouts had remained unknown since May 30 when her…
GENEVA – The Islamist militant onslaught in Iraq raises the spectre of a sectarian conflict spilling across the embattled nation’s borders, UN chief Ban Ki-moon warned on Tuesday.“I’m deeply concerned about the rapidly deteriorating security situation in Iraq, including the reports of mass summary executions by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL),”…