The Federal Government has spent at least N260bn on ex-Niger Delta militants between 2009 and 2013 through both the amnesty programme and oil pipeline protection deals, SUNDAY PUNCH investigations have shown. About N248bn has been spent through the amnesty programme to pay monthly stipends to ex-militants and on their training, both in the country and abroad.…
No fewer than100 people were at the weekend killed in separate terrorist attacks in Baga and Izge villages of Kukawa and Gwoza Local Government Areas of Borno State. Several others also sustained gunshot injuries and properties worth millions of naira were destroyed by suspected members of Boko Haram Islamic sect. Within the last one week,…
Foreign assets of banks in the country fell by 2.4 per cent to N8.68 trillion in November 2013, compared to a decline of 0.3 and 0.35 per cent in October and the corresponding period of 2012, respectively. This development was attributed to the respective decline of 1.5 per cent and 6.4 per cent in the…
Outspoken Islamic cleric, Sheik Ahmad Gumi has said that a Northern Christian candidate for President under the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) would not work in Nigeria’s 2015 elections. He made the comment while analyzing the political developments in Nigeria in an interview with SaharaTV on Saturday. Northern Christians he said needed to rebuild confidence…
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday said the prayers of various religious groups had brought peace
The incident happened Saturday at Okpara Square, Umuahia, Abia state, the venue of the rally which was designed to officially declare Governor T.A Orji’s Senatorial ambition ahead of the 2015 general election. The deceased who was identified as Mr. John Ndubuka, a planning officer with the Abia State Government House Umuahia as well as a…
Residents of a northeast Nigerian town said Saturday hundreds of them have fled their homes for fear of attacks by Boko Haram militants who killed 43 people this week in a nearby village.About 400 men fled Bama on Friday to Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, 35 kilometres (22 miles) away following warnings from residents of…
Worried by the volume of oil theft in the Niger Delta region, Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has advocated the award of contracts for the protection of pipelines to contractors within the host communities as a way of curbing the scourge. His suggestion came in the wake of revelations that Nigeria has been losing $6…
The Sokoto State Command of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has lamented the rising cases of drug abuse by young girls in the state and advised parents to inculcate sound morals in their children and wards. The command who insisted that routine guidance and monitoring of their children and wards will serve as sure…
Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State has declared that the Federal Government was waging war against its citizens with the reduction in the monthly allocations to states and local governments. Speaking, yesterday, in Ejigbo, Osun State, at the commencement of a retreat organised for members of the state House of Assembly on the 2014 Budget,…