No fewer than 40 students were shot dead yesterday by men believed to be Boko Haram terrorists in an attack on a school hostel in Yobe State. The students of College of Agriculture, Gujba, 40 kilometres from Damaturu the state capital, were asleep when the agents of death stole into their hostel. It was one…
There was huge outcry yesterday against the perpetrators of the attack on Yobe College of Agriculture, with the Europen Union (EU) describing it as “horrific”. It promised to support the Nigerian governmemt to combat the deadly Boko Haram sect. The spokesperson of the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and…
Mr. Peter Obi has charged Nigerians to seek divine intervention to tackle the various challenges confronting the country. Speaking at an inter-denominational church service to mark the 53rd Independence anniversary of the country at Women Development Centre, Awka, Governor Obi regretted that Nigerians have failed the country in the way they attend to issues concerning…
President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday had an emergency meeting with service chiefs over the killing of 50 students
Rtd Lt General Jeremiah Useni, Chairman, ACF Board of Trustees Translated By Sani Tukur-PREMIUM TIMES Lt. General Jeremiah Useni needs no introduction. The prominent role he played during the reign of late Head of State, Sani Abacha, as Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, is well known. However, there are two things about Jeremiah…
By Onyebuchi Ukagha Those contemplating voting for or supporting APC in the upcoming Anambra State Governorship election must be made of the fate of those Igbos deported from Lagos by the founders of APC. These innocent hard working man and women, some of them abducted on their way back from work, illegally detained, tortured before…
Tragedy struck again in Nigeria as the endless cycle of death visited the country again as BBC reports the sinking of a boat on the River Niger in central Nigeria, leaving at least 42 people dead, officials say. Rescue teams are searching for a further 100 people reported missing.
Heavily armed gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram members yesterday bombed three commercial banks in Saminaka, headquarters of Lere local government area of Kaduna State. Four lives were lost in the attack. Speaking with Saturday Mirror, Kaduna State Police Command spokesman, Aminu Lawan said three security personnel died during the exchange of gun fire with…
Al-Mustapha, the former Chief Security Officer to the former Head of State, General Abacha Sanni, and the Leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Mujaheed Dokubo-Asari, is currently unsettling political circles in the North. Dokubo-Asari has not hidden his disdain for any political arrangement that would return presidential power to the North in 2015,…
The drop in the monthly revenue allocations by the Federal Government to the 36 states of the federation has affected the finances and smooth-running of various governments. Investigations by Saturday Punch showed that the shortfall in revenue allocation to states by the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee which started three months ago, had disrupted payment of…