ABAKALIKI—EBONYI State House of Assembly ad hoc committee investigating the impasse in NIGERCEM factory, Nkalagu, between the state government and core-investor, Ibeto Group, weekend, invited leaders of the host communities who called on the House to intervene in the face-off.
Three Lebanese and the Nigerian coowner of Amigo Supermarket, who were arrested for keeping an illegal armoury and suspected links with a Hezbollah terror cell in Kano last week, have sued the Federal Government over alleged illegal detention, demanding N50bn damages.
At least five people were reportedly killed yesterday while about 20 others were injured in a fresh attack on residents of Goron-Dutshe in the troubled Birnin- Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State. A resident reported that about 20 people were injured while some houses razed by gunmen at the weekend.
LEADER of opposition parties and former Governor of old Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, has said that the proscription of Boko Haram Islamic sect by President Goodluck Jonathan has shown that the US and Israel are behind the security operations of the country. He noted that the ban of Boko Haram sect has finally ended…
THREE members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) were reported to have died, Saturday, when their bus somersaulted and crashed at Modebe Avenue, Onitsha, as they attempted to evade arrest by military personnel. There was total compliance on the sit-at-home order by the group in Awka and its…
Suspected members of the Islamist sect, Boko Haram, who hid their assault rifles inside a coffin launched an attack against informants in Maiduguri on Friday, killing 13 people, witnesses said yesterday. The suspects were soon found out and shot by security forces. Soldiers, had on Thursday, also shot dead another eight suspected Boko Haram fighters…
Disagreement over what would be the sharing formula for the newly formed All Progressive Congress (APC) has stalled its registration by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Sunday Mirror gathered that both the leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and leader of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), General Muhammadu…
The Northern State Governors’ Forum (NSGF) Committee on Reconciliation, Healing and Security has recommended that the Federal Government should mandate security agencies to unmask individuals and groups using Boko Haram as a franchise to settle political and economic scores. The panel, however, asked the Federal Government to end alleged impunity within security forces and review…
There was an overflow of tears on Friday at Ibollo, Ogbunike, Anambra State, when the world turned up to bury the slain former Deputy Governor of the state, Dr. Chudi Nwike. Former Governors of Anambra State, Chukwuemeka Ezeife and Chris Ngige and former Governor of Imo State, Achike Udenwa, who spoke at the burial, lamented…
Palpable tension pervades the five states of the South East, following today’s sit-at-home order given by the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB). The pro-Biafran group had ordered all Igbo across the country and in Imo, Abia, Enugu, Ebonyi as well as Anambra states, to stay in their homes today,…