Residents of Olufowobi Street, Ketu, Lagos, were thrown into confusion after an eight-year-old girl, Amarachi Abakwam, was found tied up and brutalised under the bed of a policeman attached to Police Mobile Force 22. PUNCH Metro learnt that the policeman, Augustine Gbuchenge, with Force number 400823, lived in the same compound with Amarachi’s family. The…
The Federal Government has given the armed forces and other security agencies the nod to embark on mass recruitment. The PUNCH gathered in Abuja on Sunday that the directive was to give fillip to the war against terrorism in the country. It was also learnt that those who attended the expanded National Security Council meeting…
The military disclosed, yesterday, that its troops have succeeded in their major offensive to rescue the remaining 190 abducted students of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State as they have moved closer to the abductors’ den. The Director of Defence Information, Maj.-Gen. Chris Olukolade, who spoke with newsmen, yesterday, on the sideline of…
The Igbo socio cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo yesterday urged governors of the South East
They come in the night. Armed militants take young children from their beds, as they sleep: Young recruits for
Sambisa is a vast area of land located south of Borno State. The thick forest area with swampy condition during rainy season is believed to be harbouring make shift- camps of suspected members of Boko Haram Islamists. It has boundaries with Chibok, Askira Uba, Damboa, Gwoza, Konduga, Dikwa, Bama and other local government areas of…
The Islamist sect, Boko Haram, may have moved the over 100 students of the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, it abducted two weeks ago into several of its camps as part of the strategy to use them as human shield, according to indications last night. The girls are believed to have been originally…
Jubril Muhammad Aminu, a professor of cardiology, was the Nigerian Ambassador to the USA between 1999 and 2003. Aminu was elected senator representing Adamawa Central senatorial district in 2003. Prior to the ambassadorial posting in 1999, he had held office as Federal Minister of Education and Federal Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources (1989 and…
President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, spoke tough as he vowed that no expense will be spared to ensure that members of the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, responsible for the wanton destruction of lives and property pay dearly for their atrocities. The President, who spoke at the 4th annual presidential breakfast prayer held at the Banquet Hall…
By SaharaReporters, New YorkGovernor Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso of Kano state has described as imaginary and baseless the claim made by President Goodluck Jonathan that the state government cannot account for the money received from the Federation Account as all money collected by the state government was judiciously spent as every single kobo spent was properly…