Boko Haram threatens fresh attacks on media, journalists

The Islamist sect, Boko Haram yesterday threatened fresh attacks on the media in Nigeria, including foreign agencies, and journalists in an 18-minute video posted on YouTube. The video also showed how a suicide bomber drove into ThisDay Newspaper office in Abuja and blew himself up, an attack, which claimed at least three lives last week. […]

Lamido to NSA: Name Boko Haram sponsors in PDP

From: ISMAIL OMIPIDAN, Kaduna Tuesday, May 01 , 2012 Gov. Lamido Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State has challenged the National Security Adviser, NSA, General Andrew Azazi, to name the sponsors of Boko Haram, within the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, since by his (NSA) own […]

El Rufai praises Aziza for PDP comment

Umoru ABUJA — FORMER Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, yesterday, threw his weight behind the embattled National Security Adviser, General Andrew Owoye Azazi (rtd), saying he only confirmed what some people have been saying that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is the cause of all politically-related violence and terrorism […]

Jonathan to summon Azazi for linking PDP with bombings

April 29, 2012 by Olusola Fabiyi and Olalekan Adetayo  National Security Adviser, Gen. Owoye Azazi (retd) | credits: File copy President Goodluck Jonathan indicated on Saturday his willingness to summon the National Security Adviser, Gen. Owoye Azazi (retd), for linking the Peoples Democratic Party with the spate of bombings in the country. Also, the PDP […]

Ibori: UK hunts for three more ex-governors

More ex-gover-nors who allegedly looted public funds and laundered them in the United Kingdom, are in trouble, as the authorities there are buoyed by their success in the trial of a former governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori, to activate their files. Ibori was on April 17, sentenced to 13 years imprisonment for money […]

Subsidy scam: Rep insists on Diezani’s resignation

April 27, 2012 by John Ameh, Abuja A member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Robinson Uwak, on Thursday repeated his call on the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, to resign her appointment following the uproar over the N1.07tn fuel subsidy scam. Uwak had made the same call on the floor of the […]

Yakowa, Fashola, Oni, others commiserate with ThisDay, The Sun

In a swift reaction to the bombing of the Kaduna offices of The Sun, Thisday and Moment newspapers yesterday, the Kaduna State Governor, Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa has described the incident as sad, unbelievable and shocking. In a statement issued by the governor’s media spokesman, Reuben Buhari, it noted that it was inhuman to subject journalists […]

How I escaped being killed –THISDAY reporter

When Senator Iroegbu, a reporter with ThisDay Newspapers, Abuja, left his house yesterday morning for the office at Jabi, Abuja, the least he had on his mind was bomb blast even though he has been reporting bombing incidents. However, his wife had a premonition that something bad was going to happen and tried to prevent […]

ThisDay bomb blast: El-Rufai, Daniel react

Among the early callers at the ThisDay bomb blast scene yesterday were former minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mallam Nasir el-Rufai and immediate past governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel. Speaking with Daily Sun, El-Rufai said the situation was very sad that Nigerian lives continued to be lost to the incapacity of […]

Why we bombed media houses -Boko Haram

The Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati Wal-Jihad, popularly known as Boko Haram, has said it attacked media houses in Abuja and Kaduna yesterday to send a message to the media that it would no longer condone reports misrepresenting it in the press or blaming it for acts it knows nothing about. Abul Qaqa, spokesperson for the […]

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