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…
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…