Operatives of the Department of State Security this morning seized the international passport of the Coordinator of the BringBackOurGirls group and former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. Ezekwesili was on her way to London when her passport was confiscated by the security operatives and she was prevented from […]
SECURITY agencies have put some national leaders of the opposition All Progressives Congress on the watch list, a top government official said on Sunday. The official, who asked not to be named, confided in selected journalists in Abuja that the APC leaders could be picked up by security agents in case any untoward incident occurred […]
Gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect stormed Ngala town and abducted the wife and two children of a politician, Zaraye Mala Sheriff. Zaraye Mala Sheriff is a councillor in the area and a cousin of ex-governor Ali Modu Sheriff. Witnesses said the insurgents also kidnapped two prominent politicians in the area, […]
Former Vice-President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has warned the Peoples Democratic Party-led Federal Government against the dangerous tactics of polarising the country along fault lines as a means of diverting the attention of Nigerians from its inept and apathetic posture to corruption and insecurity. Reacting to a report in a […]
By EMMANUEL OGOIGBE Warri on July 20, 2014 · Politics Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro has assured that the military would be adequately funded to crush the current security challenge in the country. Obanikoro, who gave the assurance when he spoke with newsmen yesterday in Warri, Delta state, also stressed that the […]
July 20, 2014 The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, yesterday, hailed Federal Government’s new initiative to set up a special fund to cater for the needs of victims of insurgency in parts of the country. Reacting on behalf of CAN and the entire Christian community in Nigeria to the cheery news, National President of the […]
July 19, 2014 BY NDAHI MARAMA, Maiduguri with agency report Boko Haram extremists have killed more than 100 people and hoisted their black and white flag over a town left undefended by the military, just 85 kilometers (53 miles) from Maiduguri, a civil defense spokesman and a human rights advocate said Saturday. Hundreds of villagers […]
BY Ben Agande, JOHNBOSCO AGBAKWURU & JOSEPH ERUNKE ABUJA — Former Defence Minister, Lt General Theophilus Danjuma (Rtd.), yesterday, lamented that insurgents appear to be having an upper hand in the country at the moment and tasked President Goodluck Jonathan to bring the insurgency to an end. President Jonathan, on his part, is seeking approval […]
Some parents of the over 200 schoolgirls abducted from Chibok, Borno State over two months ago on Tuesday shunned President Goodluck Jonathan’s invitation. Jonathan had on Monday told a girl-child education campaigner, Malala Yousafzai, that he was ready to meet the parents. Yousafzai, who had earlier met with some parents and some girls who escaped […]
The alleged mastermind of the April 14 blast in Nyanya, Abuja, Aminu Ogwuche, has been extradited by Sudan to Nigeria on Tuesday. Ogwuche, who was handed over to the Interpol Unit of the Nigeria Police Force by the Sudanese authorities was flown into the country in a special flight from Khartoum, Sudan, which touched down […]
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