NO fewer than 25 persons were feared dead yesterday in Kwande, Katsina-Ala and Logo local government areas of Benue State after suspected Fulani herdsmen sacked six villages in the three councils. They also burnt down farmlands, houses and huts. Vanguard gathered that the invaders, who had in the last few weeks attacked the southern part…
My attention has been drawn to a call by a well known writer and scholar, Dr. Anthony Oha, that I Citizen Ikenna Samuelson Iwuoha should be arrested or declared wanted by relevant security agencies in Imo State for defaming the person of Rt. Hon. Chief Benjamin Chukwuemeka Uwajumogu, the Speaker of Imo State House of…
THE Auditor General of the Federation, Mr. Samuel Ukura, yesterday, told the Senate Committee on Finance investigating
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.