Two former Inspectors General of Police (IGP) said yesterday, that the rising spate of criminality and terrorist activities across the country ahead of the April 2011 general elections was not unexpected, as there had been signs that all was not well with the nation’s security system and the polity. Speaking with Daily Sun on telephone […]
Ex-military president, General Ibrahim Babangida (retd) has condemned the attempt to link him with the spate of bomb blasts in parts of the country, describing it as cheap blackmail. According to a statement signed by Babangida’s spokesman, Kassim Afegbua, the former leader was seriously concerned with the bombings that had claimed several lives and wanted […]
Of the four persons officially confirmed dead in the Mogadishu Barracks, Abuja, blast on new year eve, was a pregnant woman. A soldier who had his leg amputated and a five-year old daughter, left with a fracture, were among the 26 injured during the incident. The dead pregnant woman had travelled from Jos to Abuja […]
62 bodies of victims of the Christmas Eve bomb blasts in six places in Jos, the Plateau State capital, have been given a mass burial at Dong village, close to the Wildlife Park in Jos North Local Government Council. Earlier, the Plateau State government had buried 42 bodies in the same place. LEADERSHIP WEEKEND gathered […]
AFTER a four-hour gun battle with suspected members of Boko Haram, the joint police/military taskforce yesterday arrested an alleged financier of the group, Alhaji Bunu Wakil and 91 other persons. Also, in Lagos, the state police commissioner, Mr. Marvel Akpoyibo assured that members of Boko Haram would not be able to operate in the state. […]
There are strong indications that the Islamic fundamentalist group, Jama’atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda’Awati Wal Jihad, which claimed responsibility for the Christmas Eve multiple bomb blasts in Jos, Plateau State, may have a link to the terrorist group, Al-Qaeda. Findings showed that the radical group, which posted its claims on its web site, http://mansoorah.net/sb_attacks.php, could be an […]
Former President Oluse-gun Obasanjo yesterday declared that he would not die before his due time, saying that the incident in Ekiti State on Wednesday in which he was speculated to have fainted and subsequently died yesterday was the seventh time his death would be rumoured. Obasanjo was rumoured to have fainted during the 70th Birthday […]
SUSPECTED members of the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, who on Tuesday killed a policeman and two others in a teaching hospital in Maiduguri, Borno State, renewed their offensive on Wednesday in the state capital. Wherever they struck, either a resident or a security officer was brought down in cold bold. Embattled residents in the scenes […]
Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, was the scene of yet another bloodbath on Wednesday night as assailants believed to be members of a radical Islamic group killed eight people, including three policemen, in the city. An army spokesman, Lt. Abubakar Abdullahi, told the Agence France Presse by telephone that the members of the group […]
The Action Congress of Nigeria on Thursday vowed to make inroads into the South-South where it currently controls only one state – Edo. Speaking to journalists after its South-South zonal caucus meeting, Senator Adego Eferakeya said the party would meet the Independent National Electoral Commission’s deadline for the submission of names of candidates for […]
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