Babakura Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section From a leader of Boko Haram, Abu Kaka, came a report yesterday that the group did not kill Babakura Alhaji Fugu, brother-in-law to the slain leader, Ustaz Mohammed Yusuf. Fugu received ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo who was on a peace mission to the Yusuf family in […]
LAGOS – Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, weekend, called for the sack of security chiefs in the country for failing to check activities of the Boko Haram sect, which had led to the death of many Nigerians and destruction of property worth billions of naira. The association also scored President Goodluck Jonathan low in the handling […]
Mamman Nur, the wanted mastermind of the United Nations’ House bombing in Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, last August, is said to be behind the killing of Mallam Babakura Fugu. Nur, who was declared wanted by the Directorate of State Service, DSS, is said to harbour another faction of the dreaded Ahlan Sunnah Lid […]
Influx of religious extremists from the Marghreb into Northern Nigeria and consequent expansion of religious fundamentalism may not abate for sometime to come, unless a concerted attention is paid to the nation’s poorly-policed borders with Niger, Chad and Cameroon, investigations by Sunday Tribune has revealed. Checks at the nation’s Northern borders revealed an extensive level of […]
THE city of Kaduna came under heavy security checks yesterday at the Passing Out Parade (POP) of 196 cadets of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA). Both invited and uninvited guests were subjected to thorough screening. The graduating cadets were drawn from the Army, Navy and Air Force. The security presence was obviously spurred by the […]
Strong indications have emerged that President Goodluck Jonathan may have acted on the request of the National Judicial Council (NJC) to retire the suspended President of the Court of Appeal (PCA), Justice Ayo Isa Salami, for misconduct, by sending the request to the Senate as required by the 1999 Constitution (as amended). The council had, on August […]
Less than three days after former President Olusegun Obasanjo left Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, Alhaji Babakura Alhaji Fugu, the eldest son of in-law to the late Boko Haram leader, Mallam Mohammed Yussuf, was shot dead on Saturday. Obasanjo had gone to condole with the family of the late leader of Boko Haram sect, Yusuf, who […]
First lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, has denied the report that he was investigated for being in possession of $13.5 million in 2006 saying she had never seen such amount in her life. Mrs. Jonathan who was reacting to a report by online whistle blower that the said amount was confiscated from her said $13.5 million […]
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday waded into the Boko Haram crisis, pleading with the family of its leader, Yusuf Mohammed, who was killed by security agents in 2009, to forgive and forget the past. Obasanjo who arrived Maiduguri, Borno State yesterday morning met the Boko Haram leader’s relations at the family house in Bayan Quarters. […]
THE meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC), on Wednesday, approved the award of contracts worth about N33billion in different sectors of the economy including petroleum, water resources, road infrastructure, erosion control as well as Information and Communications Technology (ICT). Minster of Information, Labaran Maku, who briefed state house correspondents after the meeting presided over by President […]
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