No fewer than 22 people were killed yesterday in a fresh attack by some Fulani herdsmen in Plateau State. This was even as some Boko Haram terrorists on Wednesday night invaded Askira, the Headquarters of Askira-Uba Local Government Area of Borno State and killed three people. The Plateau attack was carried out by the herdsmen…
Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), has dared the police in Aba, Abia State,
The systematic war against Igbos in the Nigerian Police under the watch of Mohammed D. Abubakar has met with strong condemnation from frontline rights group International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law (Intersociety). In the concluding (Part Three) of its petition, the first two parts of which were published by News Express…
Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah has said that the proposed National Conference scheduled to begin next month will not achieve any tangible thing for the people of Nigeria. Speaking to Hausa Service of the BBC, monitored in Abuja, the cleric said that the proposed conference would not be an avenue to tackle …
The president of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, is currently being interrogated at the headquarters of the State Security Service in Abuja. Dokubo was invited by the SSS, following his alleged inflammatory statements in connection to the 2015 election, in which he stressed in unequivocal terms that there will be bloodshed, if…
The Muslims Rights Concern (MURIC) on Wednesday advised the leader of the out-lawed Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Asari Dokubo, to stop heating up the polity by making unguarded statements. Dokubo had on Tuesday reiterated that his kinsmen in the oil-rich Niger Delta would foment trouble if President Goodluck Jonathan failed to secure second term…
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday said the Defence and Service Chiefs have a tough time ahead unless the Boko Haram war is won.Decorating them with their new ranks at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, Jonathan said he did not know whether to congratulate them or not because of the circumstances of the moment.The military chiefs, he…
Central Bank Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, yesterday, told the Senate Committee on Finance that of the $67 billion crude oil sales that was supposed to be remitted to the Federation Account, only $47 billion had been reconciled between the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC and CBN. But the Committee’s Chairman, Ahmed Makarfi, cautioned the CBN…
For the second time in less than one month, a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja yesterday rejected a fresh psychiatric test result produced by the Abuja National Hospital on Mr. Charles Okah. Okah is facing terrorism charges before the court, along with others for purportedly masterminding the October 1, 2010 twin-bomb blasts in Abuja,…
Pan-Igbo youth organisations will, on February 28, hold the World Ndigbo Youth Summit in Enugu. Over 12 Igbo youth groups, from parts of the world and states are expected to participate. Some of them are the Igbo Freedom Movement, World Ndigbo Youth Movement, Igbo Security Council, Igbo Liberation Youths, Igboezue Youth Movement, Biafra Action Congress,…