UNESCO, in 2012, predicted the extinction of the language The participants at a symposium to commemorate Mother Tongue Day, on Friday, urged the Igbos to take pride in speaking their language to save it from extinction. Speaking during the event organised by Umuada Igbo in Enugu, the President-General of the group, Kate Ezeofor, urged parents, teachers, care-givers…
There are strong indications that the ongoing military operations against insurgents in the North-East may have been seriously hampered by lack of modern military hardware and the prevalence of aging equipment in the Armed Forces. Saturday PUNCH learnt that the military had been faced with the difficult challenge of using mostly refurbished military hardware in…
Security agents in the commercial city of Onitsha and Anambra State in general are having hectic time controlling
The renewed attacks by Boko Haram insurgents in the North East is causing serious tension in the military, even as the Service Chiefs are already charting new courses to ensure that the situation is arrested. Before the Service Chief’s assumption of office in January, there was a relative peace in the North East especially, as…
* The regime identified the masterminds, so mandated its hit squad to eliminate the nine, including Sanusi. Fresh facts have emerged as to why the government of late Sani Abacha did not kill Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), governor, Lamido Sanusi, in 1995, after he and eight other jihadists mobilized crazed extremists to behead Gideon…
Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola (SAN) has questioned the suspension of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor Lamido Sanusi Lamido. The governor said the timing of President Goodluck Jonathan’s action with the ongoing audit of the missing $20 billion from the coffers of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) was a ploy to jeopardise…
The chief magistrate’s court sitting in Dutse has ordered the remand of the boy, Malam Kamisu Baranda, in prison for two weeks. Magistrate Awwalu Sani Balago said the accused person did not confess that he committed the act but the court remanded him to allow police make further inquiries. Kamisu was said to have admitted…
THE leader of the extremist Boko Haram sect, Abubakar Shekau, has, in a video released to journalists, threatened more attacks against Nigeria, saying his members would target Nigeria’s sources of revenue, and her refineries.Shekau, who is wanted for terrorism by both Nigeria and the U.S., also vowed to kill major Islamic clerics and people that…
Suspended Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has stated that he would challenge the power of President Goodluck Jonathan to remove him from office. He also affirmed that his removal was due to his comments against corruption in the system. Sanusi, who was said to be out of the country when his…
Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State has urged Nigerians to transform agricultural practices into agric-business, saying the nation can survive without oil if this is done. A statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Abdulwahab Oba, noted that Ahmed said this in Kaduna at a lecture organised by the Arewa Consultative Forum, titled, “Northern Nigeria economy…