THE United Nations (UN) is set to initiate a counter-terrorism implementation task force in Nigeria by November, to educate and make terrorism less attractive to the youth. President Goodluck Jonathan disclosed this in New York, United States, on Wednesday, in his presentation at the ongoing UN General Assembly debate. He told the gathering that Nigeria […]
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has received United States Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, as part of his scheduled activities at the sidelines of the ongoing 66th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Mrs Clinton, who met Jonathan in his Ritz Carligton accommodation on Tuesday, welcomed the president to the United States, after […]
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Olugbenga Ashiru By Tokunbo Adedoja Nigeria, the first African country to back Libya’s Transitional National Council (TNC), was absent at the weekend when the United Nations General Assembly voted to recognise the transitional authorities as the representative of the North African country. No explanation was given as at press time […]
Videos have emerged purporting to show members of Boko Haram preparing for suicide attacks, including the image of a young man, Mohammed Abul Barra, said to be responsible for the August 26 bombing of United Nations headquarters in Abuja. THISDAY has also learnt that last Saturday’s killing of Babakura Fugu, the in-law of the slain […]
President Goodluck Jonathan will today leave for the New York to attend the 66th Session of the United Nations, General Assembly (UNGA) and in his capacity as the Chairman of the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS), meet with the Secretary General of Amnesty International, Mr. Salil Shetty, on allegations of rising cases of […]
FROM the United States (U.S.) and the United Nations (UN) have come condemnation of the unlawful arrest, detention and killings of Nigerians and other black Africans in Libya. Both the UN and the U.S. are calling for an end to the maltreatment, which has become more intensified since the onslaught on Tripoli by the rebel forces […]
ABUJA -Three weeks after the United Nations House bomb blast, the UN Resident Coordinator in Nigeria, Mr. Daouda Toure , Wednesday announced the names of UN members of staff and other non UN persons killed in the August 26 bomb attack. Mr. Daouda Toure confirmed that 23 persons were killed in the attack of which […]
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 […]
Sokoto: Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III yesterday condemned last Friday’s bomb explosion at the UN Secretariat in Abuja describing it as an abominable act in Islam, especially in the blessed month of Ramadan. This is just as Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano has ordered the security agencies to release suspected members of the […]
The puzzle surrounding the whereabouts of Mr. Paul Waziri, the 25-year-old employee of one of the companies that service the bombed United Nations (UN) House, Abuja, last Friday was solved yesterday as the family discovered his dismembered remains at the National Hospital morgue. His cousin, Mr. Stephen Bahagu, who had been leading the search party […]
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