By SaharaReporters, New York Tears flowed freely on Monday when Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima and Senator Ali Ndumi arrived Chibok, where parents said that 234 girls, not the 129 that has been widely reported, were actually abducted by Boko Haram militants last week from the Girls Secondary School in zChibok. They also confirmed that…
by: Haliwud On a sad note, due to Nigeria’s failing security situation has resulted in a great sense of frustration not just for Nigerians but also foreigners. Due to the recent negative media attention on an international scale, about 20 countries have advised their citizens to stay away from Nigeria, mostly due to last week’s…
The British Homeland Security has deported Mrs. Helen Ukpabio, the President and Founder of one of Nigeria’s largest Pentecostal churches believed to be leading the spread of witch-hunting in the country. A United Kingdom based human right activist and charity worker, Ms. Modupe Debbie Ariyo announced this in a one paragraph sentence via her Facebook…
The lack of political will to fight insecurity has again been identified as the major challenge in Nigeria, as it battles with insurgency. National Secretary-General of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, Ahmed Sulaiman, was a guest of Sunrise Daily on Channels Television and he expressed his view that the first problem was that “something is…
by Ahmed A. Mohammed (Bauchi) & Ibrahim Kabiru Sule (Abuja), DailyTrustUnidentified gunmen attacked the Government Girls Secondary School in Yana, Bauchi State yesterday, where they set fire to staff homes and seized the principal’s car.The incident came a week after a similar attack at a girls’ secondary school in Chibok, Borno State, in which more…
By Soni Daniel, Victor Ahiuma-Young, Levinus Nwabughiogu, Umar Yusuf & Ndahi Marama LAGOS—General Yakubu Gowon, who led Nigeria through a 30-month civil war, yesterday, lamented that the country had fallen into full scale civil war with the spate of crises in the northeast. His assertion was corroborated by the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and…
By peter uzoma Barely twelve months, precisely 11th April, 2013, when the former police commissioner, Imo command, Mr Muhammed Katsina led a crack police squad to Nzurum Ejemekwuru community in Oguta LGA, to recover the remains of one Mrs Lucy Osuigwe who was allegedly killed by her son for ritual purposes and kept her in…
By ISMAIL OMIPIDAN, KADUNA AND PAUL ORUDE, BAUCHI • School, bank bombed in Bauchi The peace of Easter was, at the weekend, shattered when gunmen suspected to be members of the dreaded Boko Haram invaded a village in Taraba State, killing no fewer than 15 people, while about 20 were injured. This…
An research by three scholars, Anahita Ghorbani, MA, Iranian women’s rights activist and researcher; Yafiah Assoulin, PhD, Syrian women’s rights activist and researcher; and Shada Al Zahrani, MA, a Saudi journalist, women’s rights activist and researcher, have a exposed the link between the Islamist terrorists operating in north east Nigeria, and the Saudi Kingdom. The…
Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, has said the Sultanate Council was committed to the education of the girl-child, debunking the notion that Islam is against the education of women. He also disclosed that preparations had reached advanced stage for the establishment of All- Women University of Medical Sciences in Sokoto state. Speaking at…