The dreaded Islamist sect, Boko Haram, has reportedly enlisted more volunteers willing to embark on suicide attacks across the North-Eastern flank of the country and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) even as security forces have intensified the heat on the group’s known locations in the bid to cripple its activities. Intelligence goons, who uncovered the […]
To curb the activities of Boko Haram and other anti-state groups, the Federal Government has ordered a 24-hour surveillance around all hotels that have over 50 rooms capacity in the country while all public infrastructure and private recreational centres would now to be manned by plain clothes security operatives. The order, which emanated from the […]
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has lamented the alleged high politicisation of the Federal Government’s proposed fuel subsidy removal, saying that those against the policy wanted to bring down his government. The president spoke, on Thursday, in Abuja at the presidential dialogue with global chief executive officers in the ongoing 17th Nigerian Economic Summit, organised by the […]
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ALTHOUGH they were stopped by a combined team of armed mobile policemen and men of the Joint Military Task Force, some aggrieved former militants in Bayelsa State used the wedding reception of President Goodluck Jonathan’s brother to make their plight public. The demonstrators, who claimed to be the third batch that protested earlier in the […]
With a wave of the hand, National Security Adviser (NSA), Gen. Andrew Owoye Azazi, yesterday dismissed the warning by the United States of a plot by Boko Haram to bomb three Luxury hotels in Abuja. The US warned on Sunday that that Islamist sect’s next targets were luxury hotels frequented by diplomats, top politicians, and […]
This government should realise that Nigerians are totally tired of this off and on bloodbath in the name of Boko Haram menace. He warned that if the Boko Haram menace was not decisively dealt with it was capable of bringing the government down. Also, the President of Fellowship of Churches of Christ in Nigeria (TEKAN), […]
BAYELSA State Governor Timipre Sylva may have finally decided to take the case of his second term ticket to God in the face of uncertainty surrounding his clearance by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Today in Yenagoa, the state capital, Sylva and his supporters will meet at the Peace Park to offer prayers to God. […]
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The death toll from attacks by a radical Muslim sect in northeastern Nigeria rose to more than 100 on Sunday, and the United States Embassy warned that the sect might be preparing to bomb three luxury hotels frequented by foreigners in Abuja, the capital. The unusually specific warning from American diplomats […]
The State Security Service said it had traced text messages about a purported plan by Boko Haram to attack the Presidential Villa and the National Assembly complex to two pupils of a secondary school in Kagara, Niger State. The suspects, aged 17 and 18, were said to have circulated text messages in which they claimed […]
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