Less than a week after the arrest of some suspected terrorists, including a Chadian, in Ijora area of Lagos State, the State Security Service on Tuesday intercepted a truck conveying scores of illegal immigrants into the state and arrested them. The PUNCH learnt that the arrest took place at the Berger area, which is a […]
Following the discovery of terror suspects’ hideouts in Ijora, Lagos, last Thursday, Hausa leaders in the state have pledged to rid the state of terrorists. The Hausa leaders made the promise on Monday during their solidarity visit to the Ojora of Ijora, Oba Fatai Aromire, over the incident in his domain last week. No fewer […]
Posters of Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State and his Rivers State counterpart, Mr. Rotimi Ameachi, announcing their intention to contest the 2015 presidential poll on the platform of the Peoples Democracy Party have flooded Kaduna. This came less than 48 hours after prominent politicians in the North central zone boycotted the party’s reconciliation meeting […]
Ibom State Governor Godswill Akpabio has confessed to manipulating the result of a 2007 Peoples Democratic Party senatorial primary election in the state by single-handedly replacing the winner with the name of his preferred candidate. Akpabio, who is also the PDP Governors Forum chairman, made the confession when a delegation of the National Good Governance […]
Northerners residing in Enugu said at the weekend that they were safe and going about their business without any fear of attack or molestation. The confirmation came againsty the background of Tuesday attack on the Igbo in Kano State. But the usual piece which existed between the Igbo and their northern guests in areas heavily […]
THE Lagos State Police Command on Thursday began a general raid on criminals’ hideouts in Lagos. The raid, which spilled over to Friday, resulted in the arrest of about 600 suspects who were taken to the premises of the Lagos State Police Command for screening. Many of them, including Nigerien and Beninoise nationals who were […]
Police authorities in Kano State and some security sources on Tuesday gave different figures as casualties of the Monday suicide bomb blasts at an inter-state commercial bus park in Sabon-Gari, Kano. While the security sources, who were among those taking a tally of the victims, said the death toll had risen from 30 to about […]
As the smoke cleared from the New Road Luxury Bus Motor Park, in Sabon Gari Kano, victims of the terror attack, who were lucky to be alive to tell their stories, on Tuesday recalled moments before the bomb went off. Most of the injured victims are currently receiving medical attention at the Murtala Mohammed Memorial […]
By Emma Amaize WARRI- EX-MILITANTS, in the early hours of Tuesday, bombed a crude oil pipeline, belonging to the Nigeria Petroleum Development Company, NPDC, located between Evwreni Edjekota and Ewu in Ughelli North Local Government Area. A source told Vanguard, “Those who carried out the explosion are the same group that exploded a gas pipeline […]
The public promise by Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State to present two Toyota Prado SUVs and sponsor 20 delegates to Dubai for the wedding of musician Tuface Idibia is not only a misplaced priority but also shows the depth of shallowlessness in the thinking of those in charge of political leadership in Nigeria. […]
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