By From TIMOTHY OLANREWAJU, Maiduguri No fewer than 110 corpses have been buried following bloody attacks on border communities in Borno State last week by Boko Haram. Besides, about 2, 000 residents were displaced with more bodies yet to be evacuated, officials said. Boko Haram launched coordinated attacks on six communities in Gwoza Local Government…
The Edo State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of three herdsmen suspected to have raped and subsequently killed a middle-aged woman. The victim was said to have been attacked alongside her 18 years old son while returning from farm at Odighi village in Ovia North East Local Government. The identity of the victim was…
By By NDUBUISI ORJI • Progressives unlikely to witness change – Okurounmu A former governor of old Oyo State, Dr. Victor Omololu Olunloyo, has said that the ongoing National Conference may not achieve anything concrete. He said the Federal Government allegedly disregarded the advice of the Presidential Advisory Committee on the National Conference regarding tis composition. This…
By ROSE EJEMBI, Makurdi While the Benue State Government has directed farmers who were displaced from their communities by Fulani invaders to go back and commence farming activities, the farmers have cried out that they have nothing to return to as their homes and farmlands have been destroyed by the invaders. Chairman of Internally Displaced…
It has emerged that National Leader of opposition All Progressives’ Congress (APC), Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu and another APC chieftain, Senator Bukola Saraki stormed Kano to prevail on Governor Rabiu Kwankwanso to appoint Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi emir. Reports had filtered earlier Sunday that Kano king makers had recommended Ciroman Kano, Alhaji Ibrahim Ado Bayero…
The State Department is financing a new 24-hour satellite television channel in the turbulent northern region of Nigeria that American officials say is crucial to countering the extremism of radical groups such as Boko Haram. The move signals a ramping up of American counterinsurgency efforts to directly challenge the terrorist group, which abducted nearly 300 …
Violent protests, yesterday, greeted the announcement of the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, as the 14th Emir of Kano. The throne became vacant last week Friday following the death of the former Emir, Alhaji Ado Bayero. Making the announcement, the Secretary to the Kano State Government, Rabiu Zakariya, said:…
CHAIRMAN, Senate Committee on Petroleum, Downstream, Senator Magnus Abe, has said the Senate refused to probe funds released to the military to fight insurgency, in the country, especially, in the North East, to prevent bringing down the moralE of the soldiers. The Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, had called for a probe into how funds released…
Onslaught on newspapers by the Federal Government evokes suppressive tendencies of military rule. Last week, President Goodluck Jonathan engaged the reverse gear and dragged Nigeria back into time. In different parts of the country, the military, which answers to Jonathan as Commander-in-Chief reenacted its infamous roles in the era of Nigerian military dictatorship. Soldiers, who…
A female suicide bomber on Sunday killed herself and a soldier close to the Quarter-guard of the 301 Battalion of Nigerian Army in Gombe, Gombe State. There were however conflicting reports on how the incident which also injured another soldier happened. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the female bomber, was riding on a…