THE Presidency explained, yesterday, why the nation’s security forces have found it difficult to completely flush out from their hideouts, members of the Boko Haram sect, who have massacred innocent people and massively destroyed property in the North Eastern part of the country. It admitted that the situation was a complex one. It said the…
Eighteen people were killed in Adamawa and Benue states yesterday in separate attacks by Boko Haram
Boko Haram emir Abubakar Shekau makes his first major video appearance United States Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, Linda Thomas Greenfield, Monday expressed her government’s readiness to work with Nigeria and state governments in the country to help them address security problems bedeviling the nation. According to Greenfield the September 11 terror experience is still…
The scale of the tragedy that happened at Saturday’s reception for Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State, South-East Nigeria, is becoming clearer following the revelation that the wife of the murdered Mr. John Ndukuba is carrying a seven month pregnancy. The poor woman just completed her National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme last Thursday, February…
FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that he should be held responsible for the travails of the Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, before and after the 2007 governorship election.Obasanjo explained that rather than blame Dr. Peter Odili, who was Amaechi’s predecessor, the state governor should realise that he (Obasanjo) was fully in charge and…
About 600 of over 800 microfinance banks in the country may be closed down soon by the Central Bank of Nigeria unless they merge within the next few months, investigation, by our correspondent has shown. Some CBN and industry sources told our correspondent on Friday that the 600 MFBs could not meet the recapitalisation deadline,…
As the Nigerian military command deploys more troops in the troubled North Eastern region of the country, where Government forces has been battling insurgents,Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima painted yesterday a gloomy picture of the war against Boko Haram, saying the resources of the military are not adequate to defeat the insurgents. Speaking with State…
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Alhaji Muhamadu Buhari has condemned the Sunday’s attack by the Boko Haram insurgents in Borno State where over 121 persons were killed.The former Head of State wondered why the terrorists and criminal elements could still express themselves despite the presence of the military in the region.Gen. Buhari…
Apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo yesterday told Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha and constitutional lawyer, Prof. Ben Nwabueze, to desist from claiming to be the mouthpiece of Ndigbo, warning the duo to stop speaking for Ndigbo on any issue. The President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo in Anambra State, Elder Chris Eluemunoh, who spoke to newsmen…
Nigeria’s external reserves has suffered a massive decline to a 10-month-low as the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, increased funding of the foreign exchange market to stabilise the naira. The reserves have come under pressure amid falling revenues from crude oil prices due to industrial scale theft from pipelines and illegal exports as well as…