After numerous failed attempts to dislodge Boko Haram from their stronghold in Northern Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan appears to have thrown the last dice admitting that extra 8,000 troops are needed to boost the strength of the military in the killing fields of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa States.
Yoruba Pentecostal Church leaders in Nigeria have joined their Cameroonian counterparts to condemn the recent clampdown on their lucrative Pentecostal church businesses in Cameroun. President Paul Biya had ordered the closure of 50 churches, many of which originated from Nigeria. Rather than comending President Paul Biya on his effort to rid Cameroon of the influence…
The factionalised apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, yesterday, set up a committee to look into the issue of reparation and royalties due to Ndigbo since after the civil war. The committee, headed by the first republic Minister, Chief Mbazulike Amechi, is one of the 21 committees which the Chief Garry Igariwey-led executive of Ohanaeze…
The state of hopelessness in Nigeria has led certain sections of the clergy to contemplate giving their backing those calling for a revolution in Nigeria. In an interview with the Vanguard, Alfred Adewale Martins, Catholic Archbishop of Lagos said the Church may throw its support behind a civil revolution if need be.
No fewer than 300 vehicles were yesterday set ablaze in various locations of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, by persons suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect reports The Nation. The latest attack came barely eight hours after 50 gunmen believed to be members of the sect attacked Damboa Divisional Police Station and…
Nigeria’s love affair with creating para military organisations shows no sign of abating as yet another gun carrying law enforcement agency is created. The Nigerian Government has approved the establishment of a border patrol corps and the creation of additional border posts for the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS).
It appears that sex crimes against children in Nigeria has permeated every facet of life as underage child prostitutes are discovered in Lagos. Before The Nation published the story headlined ‘Revealed: Lagos slave camp where underage girls are recruited into prostitution’, the brothel was notorious for a racket organised by a prostitution ring similar to…
The killer of Dele Giwa Nigeria’s premier investigative Journalist, former military dictator, looter of national treasury and financier of Boko Haram, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd) who turns 72 today, at a special pre-birthday press briefing in Minna Friday, reflected on the nation’s problems and dismissed pessimism about the 2015 elections, noting that despite the numerous…
The intrusion of Chinese businessmen combines with other factors to threaten the popular Aba industrial heritage, writes CHUX OHAI, who had just returned from the Enyimba City reports PUNCH Newspaper The atmosphere at the zonal office of the Powerline Shoe Manufacturers Association on Eifan Road, Aba, was tense. It was so tense that you could…
Former Imo State Governor Achike Udenwa has advised Ndigbo to gear up for “war” as the “presidency will not come on a platter of gold”. The ex-governor said the agitation for a president of Igbo extraction would amount to nothing, if it is not backed with commensurate political struggle. “No one gives you power, you…