CONTRARY to the statement by the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Larmorde, the police, on Wednesday, said they did not receive the N700million insurance money recovered from a former Inspector General of Police (name withheld). Larmorde, while answering questions from members of the Senate on what happened to the […]
THE dreaded Islamic religious sect popularly known as Boko Haram, on Wednesday evening stormed the Nigeria Prison at Koton Karfe, Kogi State, with bombs and guns, killing one prison warder and setting the inmates free. Sources close to the prison service disclosed to Nigerian Tribune that they stormed the prison immediately after the Magrib prayer. […]
Yenagoa/Abuja — Henry Seriake Dickson of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) was yesterday declared winner of last Saturday’s governorship poll in Bayelsa State by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The Returning Officer, Prof. Joseph Ajienka, who announced the results on Sunday in Yenagoa, said Dickson polled 417,500 votes, to beat Dr Imoro Kubor of […]
February 15, 2012 by Segun Olatunji, Kaduna Double explosions on Tuesday rocked the Angwar Sarki area of Kaduna metropolis, killing a policeman and injuring two persons. The explosions occurred barely a week after Boko Haram suicide bombers attacked military formations in Kaduna. The dead policeman, Sunday Badang, attached to the Anti-bomb Squad was on the […]
A divorcee was tricked into sending £40,000 to a Nigerian fraudster she met over the internet. Vicky Fowkes, 59, decided to start dating online in early summer 2010 and by August she was sending money through ‘moneygrams’ to a man in Nigeria she believed was a charming Briton called John Hawkins. By November 2010 the […]
Two days before the arrest of Kabiru Sokoto, the alleged mastermind of the Christmas Day bombing at Madalla, a Daily Trust’s reporter visited the suspect’s hometown of Gagi village in Sokoto South Local Government Area of Sokoto State. Gagi, a dusty sprawling suburban settlement about five-minute drive from Sokoto metropolis, is the birthplace of Kabiru […]
From detained Boko Haram topshot Abu Qaqa, came more stunning revelations yesterday on why the Islamist sect robs banks, besides suicide bombings. As he squealed, 12 people were killed on Sunday night in a shoot-out between the Joint Task Force (JTF) and members of the sect in Maiduguri, Borno State, even though a hospital source […]
The ex-militants invited for questioning by the Joint Military Task Force (JTF) in connection with the attack on AGIP truck line in Brass, Bayelsa State have cried out over the threat to their lives. The ex-militants said they are only agitators that wanted inclusion into the amnesty programme and have no connection with the bombing […]
By Ikechukwu Enyiagu, NNP, Feb. 14, 2012 – I have a story to tell you. Wait! It’s no fairytales; it’s not like we have it in several books of fiction. This is real: it’s the story of a group of people. Amongst them are my brothers, my neighbors, and those who have certified themselves as […]
Dr. Leonard Karshima Shilgba, Yola, Nigeria, Feb. 14, 2012 – Not much of good can be attached to Nigeria; yet, not yet the worst can be related to her. Let me talk about her people. For whom do I write? I think I write on behalf of the millions of Nigerians without either a voice […]
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