No fewer than 11 members of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, were yesterday at Nnobi and Awka-Etiti communities, Idemili South Local Government Areas of Anambra State, allegedly shot and injured by the police in a bid to disrupt their June 8 sit-at-home rally. Five others were arrested.
Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State has said the Igbo would never waiver in their support for President Goodluck Jonathan, noting that they were poised to deliver the South East to Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.According to him, supporting President Jonathan remains the only way the bread of the Igbos will be buttered.
AWKA — HUNDREDS of Igbo youths under the aegis of Association of Igbo Youths Organisation, AIYO, yesterday, stormed Anambra State House of Assembly to protest the directive by the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, that everybody should stay at home on June 8, 2013.
Minna—Niger State Governor, Dr Babangida Aliyu has lamented that the economy of the North has crumbled due to insecurity unleashed on the region by Boko Haram insurgents.Aliyu also regretted the huge army of unemployed youths in the North pointing out that there was urgent need for the revival of the Northern economy and job creation.
FORMER Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar has appealed to members of the Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution of Security Challenge in the North to protect repentant Boko Haram members from victimisation by the Federal Government.Abubakar urged the amnesty panel to ensure that the militant sect’s members that voluntarily give themselves up should…
BY ABDULSALAM MUHAMMADKANO — Acting Lebanese Consul in Kano, Khallel Musliman, has revealed that the private residence that housed cache of weapons of mass destruction linked to international terrorist organisation, Hezbollah, belongs to a Sierra Leonean.Speaking in Kano, Musliman said the property owner who is already in custody over his infamous role in the arm…
By Uduma Kalu Lagos—United States President, Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle have described the late Nigerian novelist, Prof. Chinua Achebe as a “Revolutionary author, educator, and cultural ambassador.”In a letter made available to Vanguard but addressed to the Achebe family and read by a White House representative, at the Celebration of Life event for…
At least six people were confirmed killed yesterday in renewed violence in Plateau State.The incident, which occurred in Bokkos Local Government Area of the state have forced residents of Gwande in Manguna district to flee their homes following the invasion of their community by gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen.
The United States has made good its promise to help Nigeria end terrorism by offering a $7m (N1.1bn) reward to persons with information on the whereabouts of the leader of militant islamist sect, Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau.The $7m is part of the $23m posted on Monday by the US State Department’s Rewards for Justice programme…
More members of the Northern Governors’ Forum are preparing to withdraw their membership of the 19-member group in protest over the May 24 Nigeria Governors’ Forum election.Investigations by The PUNCH on Monday showed that the governors are those sympathetic to Governor Jonah Jang, who heads a faction of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum.