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National Politics, Top Stories, Wikileaks
Wednesday, September 7th, 2011
Some officials in the office of the National Security Adviser once offered the United States Government full access to the biometric information stored in the international passports of Nigerians. The promise, according to a US government cable, released by whistleblower, Wikileaks, was made in 2007. The cable, Nigeria: Government practices – Info collection, Screening […]
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EFCC Politics, Latest Politics, National Politics, Top Stories, Women Politics
Wednesday, September 7th, 2011
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mrs. Farida Waziri, yesterday debunked claims that the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan is under any form of investigation by the anti-graft agency. She said such a report was mischievous. Waziri made this clarification while receiving representatives of the Women Empowering and Enriching Lives (WEEL), an […]
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Boko Haram, National Politics, Top Stories
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
The State Security Service (SSS) has arrested five members of the dreaded Boko Haram sect in connection with the April 8 and July 10 bombing of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office and the All Christian Fellowship Church respectively in Suleja, Niger State. Briefing newsmen at the SSS Headquarters in Abuja, yesterday, the Assistant […]
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Africa & World Politics, Boko Haram, National Politics, Top Stories, United Nations
Saturday, September 3rd, 2011
The Federal Government has sensationally disclosed that it now has strong evidence on the identity of those involved in the recurrent bomb attacks across the country. Following this, President Goodluck Jonathan has given an express order to security agencies to go after these terrorists and their sponsors, sating that they were testing his resolve to […]
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Boko Haram, Top Stories, United Nations
Monday, August 29th, 2011
OPERATIVES of the United States’ domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, have taken over the investigations of Friday’s bombing of the UN building in Abuja. Sources told THE PUNCH that the FBI agents probing the bombing had sidelined investigators from the Nigeria Police and the State Security Service. A source in one […]
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Africa & World Politics, Boko Haram, National Politics, Top Stories, United Nations
Sunday, August 28th, 2011
Available details on Saturday showed that the bomb blast inflicted on the UN office in Abuja on Friday by the Boko Haram sect was part of the global activity of the dreaded Al Queada group to mark the 10 anniversary of the bombing of the American twin towers on September 11, 2001. Sources confirmed at the weekend […]
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Boko Haram, National Politics, Top Stories, United Nations
Sunday, August 28th, 2011
Yusifiyya Movement, also known as Boko Haram, yesterday, said it attacked the United Nations (UN) building in Abuja because United States (US) and the UN are supporting the Federal Government to persecute Muslims in Nigeria. One Abu Kakah, who claimed to be speaking on behalf of the group, made the statement. He spoke to journalists […]
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Boko Haram, National Politics, Top Stories, United Nations
Saturday, August 27th, 2011
No fewer than 18 people were feared dead and 48 injured when a suicide bomber attacked the United Nations office in Abuja on Friday. The attacker, reportedly drove through the exit and pulled down the first and second gates and entered the compound. According to a source, the attacker immediately alighted from a Honda Accord […]
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Africa & World Politics, Boko Haram, National Politics, Top Stories
Friday, August 26th, 2011
(CNN) — At least seven people have been killed and many more injured in a bombing Friday at the U.N. building in the center of the Nigerian capital, Abuja, witnesses say. Journalist Alkasim Abdulkadir, in Abuja, told CNN he had seen seven bodies brought into the National Hospital by Red Cross officials. He had also […]
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Africa & World Politics, National Politics, Top Stories
Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Following the reaction that has trailed Nigeria’s recognition of Libya’s Transitional Council, especially from the Republic of South Africa, the Federal Government has said, as a sovereign nation, it has the right to take a position on an international issue and not of one nation’s morality over another. The rebel-led council is “the legitimate representative […]
