By JIMITOTA ONOYUME, JOHNBOSCO AGBAKWURU & NDAHI MARAMA NOBEL Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, yesterday, called on the Federal Government to ensure the release of 230 students of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, who were abducted by members of the Islamic sect, Boko Haram. One of the lucky abducted students in Chibok who was…
Delegates from the South have been routing for resource control and fiscal federalism.A disagreement over resource control, fiscal federalism, and devolution of powers has pitched delegates against each other as the National Conference commenced committee sittings on Tuesday.The situation degenerated to a stage where two delegates, Dara Godini, a professor and Vice Chancellor, Delta State…
While noting the group’s reservations on the mediation initiated by President Obasanjo with the group through Babakura Fuggu, in-law of Mohammed Yusuf, the slain founder of the group, the publication disclosed that the new leader of the group, Imam Abubakar Shekau, had considered priming Obasanjo for assassination as the September 15, 2011 exchange approached. According…
From ISMAIL OMIPIDAN, Kaduna Ahead of today’s expanded security meeting, called at the instance of President Goodluck Jonathan, to take another look at the security challenge confronting the country, Second Republic lawmaker and member of the on-going National Conference, Dr.
FROM EMMANUEL OGOIGBE, WARRI Anglo-Dutch oil giant, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), has decried the increasing theft of oil in the Niger-Delta and called for massive surveillance by security agencies to check the trend. Managing Director of the company, Mr. Mutiu Sumonu, who raised the alarm at the just concluded Delta State oil and gas…
LAGOS—Nigerian Muslim clerics living in the border towns of Cameroon and Nigeria are recruiting Boko Haram members in their mosques, the government of Cameroon has alleged. Worse still, government officials in the North East states of Yobe, Borno and Adamawa collaborate with the terrorists and take bribes from them, thereby, hindering the fight against the…
By Soni Daniel, Ndahi Marama & John MkomWukari—Daring gunmen, yesterday, defied the dusk-to-dawn curfew and attacked Gidan Aku community on the outskirts of Wukari Local Government Area of Taraba State, killing no fewer than 50 persons and injuring many others. The attackers, armed with sophisticated weapons allegedly came from Nasarawa State through the plains of…
By SaharaReporters, New York The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF,) on Monday reacted to recent allegations of “confusion and arrogance” by Governor Murtala Nyako, of Adamawa state, by the Federal Government, while acts of genocide continue in the north. The ACF in a press statement issued by their national publicity secretary, Alhaji Muhammadu Ibrahim, insisted that…
ELDERS and youths from the South-South geo-political zone have said that those orchestrating the killing of innocent Nigerians in a bid to frustrate President Goodluck Jonathan from seeking a second term in office will fail. The elders and youths said the President would not be arm-twisted into dropping his second-term ambition. They made this remark…
BY NWABUEZE OKONKWO ONITSHA — A member of the Board of Trustees, BoT, of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Chief Rommy Ezeonwuka, has said that last Monday’s bomb explosion at Nyanya, Abuja, was an indication that Boko Haram insurgents were every where and could strike anywhere, anytime, without challenge. Ezeonwuka, a prominent Igbo…