Scores of gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram terrorist sect were yesterday killed by vigilance youths, known as Civilian JTF, and the military in Kawuri village, Bama Local Government Area of Borno State. This was even as residents of Attagara village, in Gwoza Local Government Area of the state on Friday repelled…
A call has been made for a substantive restructuring of the country to remove her from the socio-political and economic woods she has continued to find herself 100 years after creation. The ace columnist with The Nation newspapers, Prof. Olatunji Dare, made the call yesterday during a lecture he delivered at the International Conference Centre,…
The Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, said yesterday that the military would not use force in the rescue of the abducted students of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State. Badeh gave this assurance while speaking to members of the Citizen Initiative for Security Awareness, CISA, an NGO, who were on…
The Igbo community in Jos has confirmed that 36 of its kinsmen and women were killed and 42 others injured
A 22-year old mother has been arrested for selling her one month old baby for N430,000 in Enugu. The mother, Chinelo Huma got N150,000 out of the deal while other women involved shared the rest of the money.They were later arrested for such an illegal act, but the new mom, who is 43 and has…
By CHRISTOPHER OJIFear yesterday gripped residents of Arepo community in Ogun State as some policemen were missing after one of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) pipelines went up in flames.The incident occurred during a gun duel with pipeline vandals However,four policemen were rescued, but some were still missing as at press time.It was learnt…
Former Chief of Army Staff, Lt General TY Danjuma has said that Boko Haram has friends among Nigerians and such people should prevail on the sect to release the abducted schoolgirls unconditionally.General Theophilus Danjuma also called on leaders in the north and Boko Haram sympathizers to use all their means of communication and influence on…
President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday said those behind the violence in the country were planning to bring down his government. Jonathan, at the 2014 Democracy Day Interdenominational Church Service with the theme “Love The Lord…and your Neighbour” in Abuja, described them as evil forces. Terror attacks by Boko Haram in some parts of the North,…
Governor Willie Obiano’s determination to rid Anambra State of criminal elements has continued to yield impressive results with the arrest of suspected kidnap kingpin, Okwuchukwu Nnagbo alias “Oyibo”, aboard a South African Airways flight at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja Lagos. News Express learn that Nnagbo, who has since confessed to being the shadowy…
“One commonly hears that carping critics complain about what is wrong, but do not present solutions. There is an accurate translation for that charge: ‘They present solutions, but I don’t like them.” ― Noam Chomsky, Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy Nigeria is a conundrum. A country beset before and…