Senator Mohammed Aliyu Ndume Tobi Soniyi A Federal High Court in Abuja will on July 24 decide whether to release the international passport of Senator Mohammed Aliyu Ndume who is standing trial for alleged terrorism financing to him to enable travel abroad. Ndume had yesterday resumed efforts to retrieve his international passport from the custody […]
July 18, 2012 by Simon Utebor Former President Olusegun Obasanjo | credits: Founder, Ifeoluwa Mission, Rev. Tela Tella, said on Tuesday that Boko Haram assumed the monster it had become because President Goodluck Jonathan failed to apply the ruthlessness of former President Olusegun Obasanjo. At a news conference, Tella, said the level the dreaded sect […]
THE National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, has, within only a few days on the job, demonstrated a commendable concern for tackling the Boko Haram terrorist onslaught. His first act has been visits to the states laid low by terror, quite unlike President Goodluck Jonathan who has restricted himself to uninspiring sound bites in the face […]
Former Special Adviser to ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo on Media and Publicity, Dr. Doyin Okupe, has faulted statements credited to Boko Haram that it was responsible for the killings in Plateau State on Saturday and Sunday. Okupe told our correspondent on the telephone on Wednesday that the claim of the Islamic fundamentalists was an attempt to […]
By Taye Obateru, with Agency report JOS —The police authorities, yesterday, disputed claims by Islamic sect, Boko Haram which claimed responsibility for weekend’s massacre in some villages in Plateau State. More than 86 people including two lawmakers were killed in the mayhem, even as there were fresh attacks on two villages yesterday. The Islamic sect […]
At last, the National Youth Service Corps has bowed to pressure and rescinded the decision to post 14,850 corps members to troubled northern states. It has directed the affected corps members to report at the NYSC headquarters for redeployment to states considered safe. A statement by the Director-General of the NYSC, Brig.-General Nnamdi Okore-Affia, in […]
FORMER Minister of Power and Steel during the second republic and spokesman for the Northern Elders Forum, Wautaregh Paul Unongo, has blamed the successive administrations’ insensitivity to the people for the insurgence of the dreaded Boko Haram in the country. Unongo, who described the sect as a small group at inception which had made its […]
THE new National Security Adviser (NSA), Colonel Sambo Dasuki (retd) said on Wednesday in Jos, Plateau State, that he had contacts of key Boko Haram leaders for possible dialogue with the group. Dasuki, who spoke in Jos during a meeting with stakeholders in Plateau, said that he was planning to meet with the group on […]
FOLLOWING the spate of insecurity being experienced in some states in the northern part of the country, the management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), has directed corps members posted to five of the affected states but who are yet to collect their call-up letters to report at the NYSC Directorate Headquarters, Abuja, for […]
THE Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Mrs Fatou Bensounda, has revealed that the court was monitoring the Boko Haram insurgence in the country and the effort by the Federal Government to tackle the menace. Speaking to State House correspondents in Abuja after conferring with President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday, she said she […]
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