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American Politics, Latest Politics
Wednesday, February 28th, 2018
The United State of America Treasury Department has added two individuals and seven organizations in Nigeria and other Africa nations and Asia connected to Islamic State to its sanctions list for global terrorism. The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Tuesday on its website declared that it had added Abu Musab Al-Barnawi of […]
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Armed Forces, Army, Borno, Headlines, State News
Tuesday, February 27th, 2018
Eight soldiers are missing, while three others were injured when Boko Haram members ambushed troops on the Damboa-Sabon Gari Road in Borno State on Monday. Military sources told SaharaReporters that one Army gun truck was also taken away by the sect’s members. According to sources, the injured soldiers have been moved to a medical facility […]
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Articles, Columnists, Headlines, NNP Columnists, Reuben Abati
Tuesday, February 27th, 2018

Karma is a bitch. Poetic justice is a bastard. Both have combined to wrong-foot the incumbent Buhari administration to make it look like a big mistake and an act of misjudgment by the Nigerian electorate. If Buhari had been disallowed from taking power in 2015, and those who advised President Goodluck Jonathan not to give a damn had their way, and Jonathan […]
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Africa & World Politics, Biafra, Top Stories
Tuesday, February 27th, 2018

namdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has been spotted by security agents in Ghana, TheCable understands. There has been controversy over the whereabouts of the IPOB leader who was last seen in public in September 2017 before the military launched Operation Python Dance II — apparently to quell the agitation for the breakaway […]
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American Politics, Canadian Politics, Latest Politics
Tuesday, February 27th, 2018
— 27th February 2018 Romanus Ugwu, Abuja The Department of State Services (DSS) has revealed that it has arrested five members of the notorious Gemere kidnap gang that abducted some Canadians and Americans along the Abuja-Kaduna road. In a statement signed by its spokesperson Tony Opuiyo, the services disclosed that in furtherance of its commitment […]
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Headlines
Tuesday, February 27th, 2018
— 27th February 2018 Romanus Ugwu, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has lamented that the recurring stand-off between the Executive and the National Assembly has contributed to slowing down the process of governance in the country. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting at the party headquarters […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Tuesday, February 27th, 2018
A Chinese female cyclist, Huang Shuang, who rode from Morocco to Lagos, Nigeria, within five months, says she is convinced that anybody can achieve anything he or she determines to do. Huang, also known as CICI, told the News Agency of Nigeriain Lagos on Monday that she was inspired to embark on “cycling around the […]
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Articles, Columnists, Elections 2019, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists
Friday, February 23rd, 2018

By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | Feb. 23, 2018 – DEmocracy , as a human contrivance, is dependent on human choice among an array of options. The choice of majority of qualified electors is considered “free and fair” no matter the intrinsic quality of the choice that often manifests later in the […]
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Biafra, General Politics, Latest Politics, National Politics
Friday, February 23rd, 2018

— 23rd February 2018 •Our spokesman’ll respond to claims –Group’s member Chuks Onuoha, Umuahia A new factional leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Okwudili Ezenachukwu, has emerged. Ezenachukwu, who emerged as IPOB factional leader as a result of alleged internal disaffection created by one Uche Mefor, Kanu’s deputy director of Radio Biafra London, who […]
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Headlines, Jigawa, State News
Friday, February 23rd, 2018
— 23rd February 2018 Ten people have died and 10 others were seriously injured in a road accident which occurred around 11:30am yesterday in Majiya town, Taura Local Government Area of Jigawa. Spokesman of Jigawa Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Adamu Shehu, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria […]