Former Minister of External Affairs, Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi A member of the Presidential Committee on the abducted Chibok schoolgirls, Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi, on Tuesday narrated how members of the committee were attacked by Boko Haram members in Bama, Borno State. Akinyemi, who is also the deputy chairman of the National Conference, disclosed this while […]
General Yakubu Usman (rtd) was the chairman of the Northern States Governors’ Forum committee on insecurity. The retired general who contested the Bauchi South Senatorial seat in 2011 and lost in this interview speaks on the ongoing insurgency in the north saying it is not the presumed job of the military to confront the insurgents. […]
By Joseph Erunke ABUJA—FOR engaging in a street protest over the abduction of over 200 female students of Government Girls’ Secondary School, Chibok, by members of Boko Haram, the police in Abuja have quizzed a social crusader, Otunba Dino Melaye. Melaye, who is the Executive Secretary of Anti-Corruption Network and former member of the House […]
By Ndahi Marama Maiduguri—At least 91 persons, were said to have been abducted by suspected Islamic militants between Thursday and Sunday from the Kumanza,Yaga and Dagu, Damboa and Dagu, Damboa and Askira Uba Local Government Areas of Borno State, local vigilante officials said yesterday night. Four other villagers were killed while attempting to escape from […]
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Representative in Nigeria, Ms Angele Dikongue-Atangana, on Monday said there were currently about 650,000 internally displaced persons in North-East Nigeria. Dikongue-Atangana told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that an intelligence assessment carried out in May had blamed their displacement on the recent crises in the North-East. “According […]
Detectives visit crime scene By Evelyn Usman & Daud Olatunji Following the alleged confession of the suspected mastermind in the murder of a retired female Customs officer and her daughter in Ajuwon, Ifo local government area of Ogun State, detectives, yesterday, visited the crime scene. The suspected mastermind, being held alongside two others in connection […]
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Protests on Wednesday greeted the Federal Government’s withdrawal of the N446.3bn theft charge it instituted against Mohammed Abacha, son of a former Head of State, the late Gen. Sani Abacha. Those who flayed the action which took place at the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja, were prominent Lagos lawyers – Femi Falana, Jiti Ogunye, […]
Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke A civil rights organisation, under the aegis of Gatekeeper Foundation, has insisted that the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, must be relieved of her position in order to ensure non-interference with the forensic audit of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. The group also attributed the rejection of Madueke […]
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