Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has described the Biafrans as “people who’d been abused, who’d undergone genocide, and who felt completely rejected by the rest of the community, and therefore decided to break away and form a nation of its own.” Soyinka who disclosed this in an interview published in The Telegraph of London on…
ELDERS of the South Eastern states are perturbed by the criminal acts in various communities and towns in the region which had made them draw the conclusion that it was because their kinsmen who died during the Nigeria/Biafran civil war were not given proper burial rites. In a meeting of the South Eastern elders and…
As the current scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, otherwise known as petrol persists in
Alarmed by the wanton destruction of lives and property by Boko Haram insurgents, governors in the North-East zone of the country, yesterday, declared that ‘enough is enough’ even as they launched moves to dialogue with the terrorists and end the orgy of violence in the region. To achieve this objective, the governors of Bauchi, Taraba…
MAKURDI—THE Air Officer Commanding , AOC, Tactical Air Command, Nigerian Air Force, NAF, Air Vice Marshal, AVM, Umar Omeiza yesterday said that “the activities of the Boko Haram terrorists,’’ had become ‘’a serious challenge to the Nigeria Armed Forces.” Omeiza noted that the sect was threatening the peace and security of the country
The contribution of the Nigerian Air Force to the prosecution of the campaign against Boko Haram insurgents may remain insignificant unless the Federal Government provides it with the right equipment, investigation by The PUNCH has revealed. It was gathered from military sources on Tuesday that the Air Force, which should have added fillip to the …
Fuel scarcity in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, is bitting harder.
The Concerned Igbo Leaders of Thought on Monday said that the proposed national conference represented a vehicle for genuine transformation of Nigeria. The CILT, which is led by constitutional lawyer, Prof. Ben Nwabueze, stated this in Enugu, through its strategy committee. Deputy Secretary of the CILT, Rev. Elliot Ukoh, spoke for the group. Elliot said…
The Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Adesola Amosu has assured that the Nigerian Armed Forces have the capacity to crush the Boko Haram insurgency in the Northeastern part of the country as soon as possible. Amosu gave the assurance yesterday while receiving the Commandant of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Air…
A former counsel for ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, Dr. Tunji Abayomi, has asked an Abuja Federal High Court to stop the Federal Government from going ahead with the national conference scheduled to commence in the Federal Capital Territory this month. In the suit numbered FHC/ABJ/CS/167/204 and dated March 3, 2014, Abayomi argued that President Goodluck Jonathan…