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Africa & World Politics, Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Thursday, October 6th, 2011
Sept 30-In very strong terms the US government is speaking out against Nigeria’s government’s efforts at negotiating with Boko Haram, insisting that it might be impossible for the federal government to convince Boko Haram to end their violence, which the Americans consider as “absolutely unjustifiable,” because many of such terror groups are “absolutely unreconcilable,” according to […]
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Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Thursday, October 6th, 2011
Two suspected Boko Haram members were on Wednesday shot dead by soldier while attempting to gun down a tea seller in Zannari, Maiduguri. The Borno State Police Commissioner, Mr Simeon Midenda, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Maiduguri that the incident happened in the evening. Midenda said the suspects had gone to the […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Air Chief Marshall Oluseyi Petirin, has said that there was no cause for alarm over the insurgency of the Islamist sect, Boko Haram. Since 2009, members of Islamist sect, which translates to ‘western education is sin’, has held the northeastern state of Borno at the jugular, paralyzing economic and social […]
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Boko Haram, Headlines, Lagos, State News
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
GOVERNOR BABATUNDE FASHOLA By Gboyega Akinsanmi Operatives of the Lagos State Task Force on Environment and Other Special Offences stormed Agege area of the state Sunday, demolishing shanties and structures built along the rail line and drainage channels owing to what was ascribed to the constant scare of Boko Haram attacks in Lagos. Chairman of […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
The violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, has said that it is ready for dialogue with the Federal Government. But the sect says this will only happen if the government releases all its members in detention. The proposed talks, however, might not lead to the final solution that government had long searched for as the sect’s […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
ABUJA- Members of the Jaamatus Ahlus Sunnah Lid Daawatis Wal Jihad, a.k.a. Boko Haram yesterday celebrated the inability of the Federal Government to celebrate the nation’s 51st independence anniversary at the Eagle Square owing to threats by the group and the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), to bomb the nation’s capital […]
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Boko Haram, Headlines
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
A crime management expert and acting Head, Political Science Department, University of Ibadan, Dr. Osisioma Nwolise, has said Boko Haram is not a terrorist organisation. Rather, the university don described the group as a liberation force in the mould of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, the Oodua Peoples Congress that […]
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Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Headlines
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
FORMER Brigade Commander of the 33 Artillery Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Muraina Raji, who is to lose three months in seniority over the escape of two Boko Haram suspects from the Wetland Detention Facility in Bauchi, has rejected the verdict. Raji was convicted for conduct prejudicial to service discipline contrary to section 103 (1) of the […]
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Boko Haram, Kano, Latest Politics, State News
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
AS security services struggle to combat budding terrorism, a fresh alarm has been raised about the inflow of sophisticated arms of various types into northern Nigerian cities from the vast northern borders of the country with Niger and Chad. Nigerian Tribune was told that arms and ammunition taken by loyalists of ousted Libyan president, Moammar […]
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Boko Haram, Headlines
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
OVER 100 security personnel including the police bomb disposal officers would be attached to the Guineans national team, the Syli National when they arrive Nigeria later in the week for the all important Africa Nations Cup qualifier against the Super Eagles in Abuja on October 8. The security details would include officers of the Nigeria […]
