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 […]
National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki By Muhammad Bello Issues bordering on global, transnational and internal security were top on the agenda of the meeting of the National Council of State (NCS) held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja Thursday. In attendance for the deliberation were former presidents of the country, the Senate President, Speaker of […]
The Conference of Southern Nigeria Elders and Leaders has urged the National Youth Service Corps to stop posting corps members from the South to troubled states in the North. In a communiqué in Uyo on Thursday, the conference said the escalation of threats to lives and property in the North by the Boko Haram sect […]
The Police Service Commission, PSC, Thursday, confirmed Mohammed Abubakar as the Inspector General of Police. It will be recalled that Abubakar was appointed Acting Inspector General of Police on January, 2012 by President Goodluck Jonathan. MD Abubakar, Police IG In a statement issued then by Dr Reuben Abati, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, […]
ENUGU-A pro-Biafra group, Biafra Zionist Movement, BZM, announced, yesterday, that it had commenced the process to launch the struggle for a State of Biafra with the international community, saying that the formal declaration of the new Biafra Republic had been slated for November 5. This came as Conference of Igbo Youth Organizations, CIYO, warned that […]
THE current activities of the dreaded Boko Haram sect could trigger a broad sectarian conflict in Nigeria, an international Christian-Muslim delegation said on Wednesday in a report. The 12-member joint delegation was led by World Council of Churches (WCC) General Secretary, Olav Fyske Tveit, of Norway and Jordanian Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad, chairman of the […]
Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega,on Wednesday, blamed Nigerian politicians for the intractable level of malpractices in the electoral process. Jega, who spoke in Benin, Edo State, during a meeting with stakeholders, noted that until Nigerian politicians were determined to see that elections were free and fair, the system would remain tainted. The […]
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 […]
The leader of Nigeria’s Christians called Tuesday on the United States to declare the Islamist group Boko Haram to be terrorists, but a US official said it was more important to address social inequalities. In an unusually blunt appeal by a foreigner before the US Congress, the head of the main Christian body in religiously […]
MKO Abiola was the nation’s elected president. Let that fact be enshrined in the nation’s records, then we would have embarked on one of the tributaries to the amplitude of true national reconciliation”. With those words, Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, spoke on the anniversary of the death of Chief MKO Abiola, the acclaimed winner […]
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