Controversial Islamic scholar and leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria popularly called Shiite Muslim group, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, has alleged that the leader of the Boko Haram insurgents, Abubakar Shekau, was being shielded by the Nigerian military. Zakzaky who spoke at the Movement’s 2014 Martyr day in Zaria on Sunday also alleged that the…
Nigeria’s Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) is not in a hurry to approve the hit movie, Half of a Yellow Sun (HOAYS), according to indications. The board was silent on the classification status of the big budget feature when it recently announced that it had verified and approved 43 films for the month of…
Over 400 football fans cheated death in the Saturday night bomb blast that rocked Bauchi Road area of Jos, the Plateau State capital. Three people were confirmed dead on the spot in the blast while the fourth died on Sunday morning thus raising the death toll to four Our correspondent who visited the scene gathered…
ABUJA — Against the backdrop of divergent views on the need to negotiate with the Boko Haram Islamic sect for the release of more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by the sect from Chibok, Borno State, President Goodluck Jonathan re-echoed the government position, yesterday, declaring that the Federal Government will not with the sect for the…
Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State, yesterday, asked the people
For some Nigerian fans who trooped out to watch this night’s European Champions League final between Real Madrid and Athletico Madrid, it was a deadly experience as they ended up being bombed. The sad experience took place in Jos, capital of Plateau State in Nigeria’s North-Central. A report by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)…
The President-General of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, who is also the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, and the governor of Oyo State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, have called on Nigerians not to associate the Boko Haram Islamist group with Islam. They spoke in Ibadan while inaugurating the Bodija Estate and Environs Muslim Community…
Olu Craig, a retired Colonel of the Nigerian Army and ex-military police officer, was imprisoned alongside former President Olusegun Obasanjo and General Shehu Yar’Adua by General Sani Abacha over the 1995 alleged coup plot. He speaks on the state of the nation in this interview. Before the kidnapping of the schoolgirls in Chibok, there was…
A Yoruba group, Afenifere Renewal Group, says the National Conference is the last option to save Nigeria from impending doom, saying “if appropriate care is not taken, we are on a roller coaster down the precipice.” The group, which advised the delegates to approach all discussions with utmost sincerity and objectivity, warned that any attempt…
This report by JIDE AJANI will show that whereas members of the Jama’atu Ahliss-Sunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad, otherwise known as Boko Haram, may have started out as a rag-tag group of Islamic evangelists who came in handy for political domination, it became a veritable tool of distraction to President Jonathan’s government in the build-up to…