Our attention has been drawn to an interview granted by Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of Kano State, in which he made these strange, unfortunate and unstatesmanlike remarks: “The vultures I was referring to are the three governors who were present at the President’s Kano visit and Godswill Akpabio is one of them. He wants to…
When I heard last month that the Nigerian Film and Video Censors Board, headquartered in Abuja,
The multi-billion naira drones purchased by the Nigerian Government in 2006 for the surveillance of petroleum pipelines in the Niger Delta that might have been used by the military in the search for the missing Chibok girls are said to be obsolete due to lack of maintenance & use since they were bought Vanguard reports…
A decision will be taken Thursday.The Nigerian government has formally asked the United Nations Security Council to blacklist the extremist group, Boko Haram.Nigeria urged the Security Council al Qaeda sanctions committee to recognize the group as a terrorist organization, indicating a further raise in the government’s effort to root the group.The move comes days after…
THE National Conference was on the edge of an uproar yesterday as delegates who reconvened sharply disagreed over the propriety of a probe into the more than N3 trillion expended on security in the period between 2010 and 2013.The near uproar followed a motion by Mr Orok Duke from Cross River State asking the Conference…
Fields are seen from an airplane outside Maiduguri, Nigeria on May 20, 2014. Reuters/Joe PenneyAt least 17 people have reportedly been killed in a Boko Haram attack on the village of Alagarno in Nigeria’s Borno state, a day after twin bomb blasts rocked the central Nigerian city of Jos, killing 118 people.Every home in the…
It was gathered on Monday that the Federal Government has started a secret talk with the members of the Islamist sect popularly known as Boko Haram, on how to free the over 234 school girls that were abducted From Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State.abubakar shekau thumb 560×347 2847 FG In Secret Talks With…
Controversial leader and founder of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force, NDPVF, has charged the people of the South-South region to prepare for war, even as he said, the ongoing onslaught by Boko Haram is designed to unleash terror on the people of the region. Asari called on the different ethnic nationalities in the region…
The relative peace in Jos, the Plateau State capital, was shattered yesterday when twin-bomb explosions went off in the city, killing about 118 people. “The exact figure of the dead bodies recovered as of now is 118,” Mohammed Abdulsalam, co-ordinator for the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, North-Central, told AFP. He added that “more bodies…
The Senate yesterday approved President Goodluck Jonathan’s request for an extension of emergency rule in the three North-Eastern states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa. The approval came after over three hours of serious negotiations and bargains. Rising from two separate closed-door meetings, the first by the leadership of the Senate and the second by the…