The Nigerian Government this afternoon swiftly rejected the condition set by Boko Haram terrorists for the release of the over 200 teenage girls it abducted from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, in the night of April 14. Boko Haram Abubakar Shekau had in a video released earlier today by French news agency, Agence…
After seven hours of closed-door deliberations today, the Committee on Devolution of Power emerged without a decision on the twin issues of resource control and derivation principle at the on-going National Conference in Abuja. The committee could equally not resolve the argument and counter argument by some delegates from different geo-political zones that the onshore-offshore…
Justice James Tsoho of the Federal High Court, sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Monday stopped the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRCN) from further investigation of the suspended Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi. Specifically, the court held that the FRCN which had earlier indicted the suspended CBN governor, lacks the…
Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Usman Oyibe Jibrin yesterday said the Nigerian Navy has arrested over 38 vessels
The violent sect, Boko Haram and other groups in northern Nigeria received $3m from Osama bin Laden in 2002, according to a report by some United States intelligence analysts. Bin Laden was said to have dispatched an aide to Nigeria to hand out the seed money in naira to a wide array of Salafist political…
The United Kingdom hinted on Sunday that it could send troops to Nigeria if requested by President Goodluck Jonathan as part of efforts to rescue the over 200 female pupils abducted by Boko Haram insurgents from their school hostel in Chibok, Borno State on April 14. Prime Minister David Cameron made this known just as…
THE United States of America ignored requests by Nigeria for intelligence information and aid to help fight the militant Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram last year, reports have revealed.. Two American newspapers, ABC News and the Daily Beast, weekend, accused the Obama administration of failing to reply to requests by lobbying firm Patton Boggs on…
A dusk-to-dawn curfew has been imposed following the burning of a church, and at least two mosques, including some
Gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram terror group, on Saturday, have blown up a bridge that links Borno and Adamawa states during an attack on Limankara, a village in Borno State, witnesses and security operatives said. The gunmen also reportedly abducted the family of a police officer, including his wife and two…
Nigeria and the U.S. are working on a UN Security Council resolution to designate Boko Haram a terrorist organisation, diplomats at the foreign ministry in Abuja have confirmed. The sources said that the two countries have agreed that the UN should take a quick action to designate Boko Haram a terror organisation. A strong indication that the 15-member council would consider the resolution…