Wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, on Tuesday advised Nigerians to desist from abusing her husband because God Himself made him the head of the nation. Patience gave the advice while addressing children at an event she organised to mark the 2014 Children’s Day at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The children […]
Jacob Oyewale Amidst complaint of inadequate funds to fight Boko Haram by Nigerian Army, the President Goodluck Jonathan led administration is planning to spend $1 billion about N130billion to launder the foreign image of the government. Jonathan and Dieziani Spearheaded by the minister of petroleum resources, Deziani Allison Maduake, the government is shopping for an […]
Nigerian director of defence information Brigadier-General Chris Olukolade speaks We don’t have funds to fight insecurity, says Army Posted by: Tony Akowe, Kaduna in News 22 hours ago The Nigerian Army has said it lacks the financial capacity to tackle Boko Haram’s insurgency and other security challenges facing the country. The Chief of Accounts […]
The BBC’s Will Ross: “For the last two years Jos has been fairly free of attacks” The bodies of at least 118 people have now been recovered from the sites of twin bombings in the central Nigerian city of Jos, the nation’s emergency management agency says. The first blast was in a busy market, the […]
Seyi Gesinde with Agency Reports May 19, 2014 – BOKO Haram, the terrorist group that abducted over 200 schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno State, may have abandoned its prisoner swap for Chibok girls position, as it plans to begin the release of the girls from next week. According to Telegraph, a United Kingdom (UK) newspaper, it […]
Photo: Présidence de la République – P. Segrette President Francois Hollande of France welcomes Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan to the Elysee Palace for Saturday’s talks on Boko Haram. The Islamist extremist sect Boko Haram is the focus of an anti-terror summit set to get under way in Paris. Nigeria’s President Jonathan is on hand with […]
Service Chiefs brief lawmakers on extension The House of Representatives has approved President Goodluck Jonathan ‘s request for an extension of the State of Emergency currently in place in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States. The President had in a letter addressed to the Speaker of the House, Hon Aminu Waziri and read on the floor […]
Some of the girls in the video The militant Islamic sect, Boko Haram, has said it will not free the over 200 girls it abducted from the Government Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State unless the Federal Government releases its detained members. The group’s leader, Sheikh Abubakar Shekau, in a 27-minute video made public […]
| credits: File copy As Nigerians await international help in fighting the Boko Haram menace, it has been confirmed that some security operatives from the United States and Britain are already in the country. Saturday PUNCH gathered that seven deployed US military personnel with the 50 stationed in the US Embassy in Abuja, and a […]
The US says it considers the abduction of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls by Islamist militants “an outrage” and is offering help to try to rescue them. White House spokesman Jay Carney said President Barack Obama was being briefed as his national security team was monitoring developments. Earlier, a video emerged of the leader of […]
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