Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has thrown his weight behind the involvement of foreign investigators to unravel those responsible for the bombing of the United Nation’s Building in Abuja on Friday. Also, the Chairman, Ad hoc committee of House of Representatives on Media and Public Affairs, Mr. Opeyemi Bamidele, has described the taking over of […]
The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Hafiz Ringim, on Monday announced that the police had arrested some suspects in connection with last Friday’s bombing of the United Nations office building in Abuja. The IGP, however, did not mention how many suspects were arrested or the identity of the suspects. Rather, he said President Godluck Jonathan […]
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 […]
R–L: Regional Chief of Communication, UNICEF in Dakar, Mr. Martin Dawes; Under-secretary General for Security, Mr. Gregory Starr; and Deputy Secretary General, United Nations, Dr. Asha-Rose Migiro, at a press conference on the United Nations House bombing, in Abuja … on Sunday. Photo: Sam Adeko. Nigerians should expect more bombings in the months ahead, sources […]
ABUJA- (AFP) – Investigators probed a Nigerian Islamist sect on Monday over the suicide bombing of UN headquarters here that killed at least 21 people in one of the bloodiest attacks targeting the world body globally. Fresh violence hit Sunday when gunmen stormed the home of a local government chairman in the northeast and shot him […]
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 […]
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 […]
TOP United Nations officials, including Nigerian diplomats, have expressed anger over Friday’s bombing of the UN House in Abuja, just as the organisation yesterday started flying its flags halfmast as a mark of honor for its international staff killed in the attack. A UN statement said the flags, which include all flags of member-nations in front […]
SPURRED by Friday’s bombing of the United Nations House in Abuja, the fight against the extremist agenda of the Boko Haram has now taken an international dimension, as top officials of the United Nations and the US government are ready to square up with the activities of the group. Authoritative sources disclosed that while the United Nations […]
The lone suicide bomber, who blew up parts of the UN House in Abuja on Friday morning, caught the army of security guards on the premises off-guard by taking the exit gate on approaching the building instead of the access gate, a security man who survived the blast told Sunday Sun yesterday. Mr Douglas Namson, […]
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