The Presidency has ruled out the possibility of engaging in what it called “trade by barter” in securing the release of the over 200 schoolgirls abducted from the Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, by Boko Haram insurgents on April 14. It said that in asymmetrical warfare, dialogue could also be difficult because the enemies […]
Suspected masterminds of the El-Rufai Motor Park bomb explosion in Nyanya, Ahmad Rufai Abubakar; Muhammadu Sani Ishaq; Ya’u Saidu; Adamu Yusuf; and Anas Isah, after being paraded at the Dss headquarters in Abuja… on Monday. (Inset: The arrested fleeing member of the the gang) The National Information Centre on Wednesday announced the arrest in Sudan […]
Some civilian JTF A vigilante group made up of residents of Kalabalge, a town in the north of Borno State, on Wednesday mounted a fierce resistance to a siege by members of Boko Haram, inflicting severe casualties on militants from the fringe Islamist sect. “We killed many of them (Boko Haram members) today (Wednesday),” one […]
Some of the girls in the video The militant Islamic sect, Boko Haram, has said it will not free the over 200 girls it abducted from the Government Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State unless the Federal Government releases its detained members. The group’s leader, Sheikh Abubakar Shekau, in a 27-minute video made public […]
| credits: File copy As Nigerians await international help in fighting the Boko Haram menace, it has been confirmed that some security operatives from the United States and Britain are already in the country. Saturday PUNCH gathered that seven deployed US military personnel with the 50 stationed in the US Embassy in Abuja, and a […]
President Goodluck Jonathan President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday said he believed that with the global efforts to find and rescue the over 200 girls abducted from their school by Boko Haram insurgents, an end to the reign of terror in Nigeria had begun. Jonathan, who once again promised that the girls would be rescued, […]
Vice-President Namadi Sambo The Federal Government plans to spend $3.7bn to upgrade the nation’s power transmission infrastructure. Vice President Namadi Sambo disclosed this on Thursday while granting audience to the management of Genesis Electricity Consortium led by a Nigerian businessman, Mr. Arthur Eze, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Most of the members of the […]
Former Head of State, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd), | credits: File copy A former Military Head of State, Maj.Gen Muhammadu Buhari, has lashed out at the dreaded Boko Haram sect calling the terrorists “mindless bigots” Buhari condemned the terrorists for kidnapping over 200 girls in Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State, insisting that […]
By Uduma Kalu, with agency reports LAGOS-The United States plans to use three channels to attack the dreaded Islamic sect, Boko haram. A UK newspaper, Telegraph said this following the video showing Shekau, the sect leader threatening to sell the abducted schoolgirls. The newspaper which said the West may use drones to tackle the dreaded […]
The US says it considers the abduction of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls by Islamist militants “an outrage” and is offering help to try to rescue them. White House spokesman Jay Carney said President Barack Obama was being briefed as his national security team was monitoring developments. Earlier, a video emerged of the leader of […]
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