About 44 people praying at a mosque in Konduga town, some 22 miles outside Maiduguri, Borno state, have been gunned down by suspected Islamic militants, security agents said.A Department of State Service, DSS, agent and a member of a civilian vigilante group working with the military said, yesterday, they counted the bodies at the mosque…
In Awka the Ohaneze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Monday, condemned the role played by the Nigeria Police in aiding the recent deportation of some Igbos from Lagos on the order of the state government.
Comrade Archiboy Agbaigba is the President of Oha Ukwa-Ngwa Congress in Abia State. He is also an Aba based civil rights activist. In this interview, he asserts among others that the Movement for the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has outlived its usefulness. Excerpts:
The unending spectacle that is Nigerian politics took a turn for the worse over the weekend when Federal University, Otuoke, Bayelsa State, yesterday played host to President Goodluck Jonathan, who was at the campus to commission 20 self-contain flats donated to the newly established institution in Ogbia Local Government Area by Madam Eunice Ayi Jonathan,…
General Yakubu Gowon, the former military Head of State of Nigeria and the man responsible for the death of 3.5 million Biafrans at the weekend, tasked President Goodluck Jonathan to take the case of Boko Haram insurgency in the country to God, adding that when faced with similar situation on Biafra, he consulted God in…
As men of the Nigeria Police, Imo State Command continue to probe the alleged sale of a six-month old boy to a teacher based in Onitsha, Anambra state, the culprits and parents of the victim, Prince Sunday Okorie and wife Sarah Okorie have given reasons for selling their baby.
Governor Shettima donated N1million to each of the deceased family as thousands of Igbo victims still await mere condolence message from the Nigerian authorities Twelve soldiers and seven policemen were killed in recent attacks in Borno by suspected members of the Boko Haram, the commander of the military Joint Task Force (JTF), Major General Jah…
Groups representing indigenous communities have blasted the Hausa-Fulani ruling class, saying their cold response to the violent activities of the Boko Haram sect amounted to complicity.
Two victims on danger list, as protest rocks village THERE was palpable tension yesterday in Umuekune village of Irete community in Owerri West Local Government Area of Imo State, when armed Fulani herdsmen opened fire on villagers who attempted to stop their cattle from grazing their farmlands.
Inside the state of the art private Gulfstream jet (top photo) of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni that he bought using British foreign aid cash. A British Member of the European Parliament (MEP) has received unprecedented support from all corners of life after he called upon the British Government to stop dashing out foreign aid to…