Boko Haram Kidnap Dozens Of Women, Children in Gulak
Suspected Boko Haram fighters have abducted dozens of women and children in a raid on the remote village of Gulak in Adamawa state, loading them onto trucks and driving them off, witnesses who fled...
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Boko Haram attacked our building ─ T.B. Joshua
The founder and General overseer of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, Prophet T. B. Joshua has said Boko Haram may be responsible for the collapse of a six-storey building in the church premises....
View ArticleAPC hails Fashola transparency on Lagos debt, asks FG to explain N8.8trillion...
Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has hailed Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) on his explanation about the status of the state’s debt profile. It also called on the...
View ArticleDemolition: Anglican Church‘ll never be allowed to premises — PG
By Vincent Ujumadu Awka — THE controversy trailing the demolition of the Ebenezer Anglican Church built inside the Oyolu Eze Primary School, Nkwelle Ezunaka in Anambra State continued, yesterday, with...
View ArticleMutiny: 12 Soldiers Sentenced To Death
Military authorities last night sentenced 12 soldiers to death for mutiny. Four soldiers were also discharged and acquitted while one soldier was sentenced to 28 days imprisonment with hard labour. The...
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Alleged Boko Haram Sponsor Modu Sheriff Storms Mauduguri With 200-Soldier...
Ali Modu Sheriff, the former governor of Borno State who is alleged to be funding the violent Boko Haram militancy in the Northeast, arrived in the state capital today with over 200 soldiers in his...
View ArticleMissing jet: We should be able to provide credible information soon – Amosu
By Ben Agande ABUJA—The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Ademola Amosu has said that the Air Force has credible information on where the Alpha Jet which crashed while on a mission in North-eastern...
View ArticleSynagogue death toll now 49 as sniffer dogs fail to arrive
By Leke Adeseri, S-West Regional Editor; Evelyn Usman, Olasunkanmi Akoni & Monsur Olowoopejo LAGOS—Although the Nigeria Police authorities yesterday deployed sniffer dogs to the scene of last...
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Customs seize 2,000 bags of rice, 40 vehicles
The Nigeria Customs Service, Oyo/Osun Area Command says some smugglers who came in to the country through an illegal route in Agbaja, off Igbeti area of Olorunsogo Local Government in Oyo State, have...
View ArticleBoko Haram ambushes soldiers in Kogi
About 850 soldiers shortlisted for a counter-terrorism course at the Nigerian Army Training Centre in Kontagora, Niger State narrowly escaped death when they were ambushed by suspected members of the...
View ArticleGovernor Fayemi sets up 19-man Transition Committee, includes Fayose’s nominees
Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has named a 19-member transition committee that will organize a hitch-free handing over and inauguration of a new government in October 16, 2014. The committee...
View ArticleWe’ll no longer tolerate further insult on Ihejirika —Biafran groups
By Nwabueze Okonkwo ONITSHA — Some groups from eastern states of the federation have unanimously condemned some northerners for levelling frivolous allegations against former Chief of Army Staff,...
View ArticleI Left APC To End The Boko Haram Crisis—Modu Sheriff
“If I was a Boko Haram sponsor there would not have been any government in Borno for any one to inherit,” Sheriff argued. He then added, “The allegation by the Australian was hatched in Maiduguri to...
View ArticleINEC cannot conduct free and fair elections – Atiku
Former Vice President and presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), Atiku Abubakar, says that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as presently...
View ArticleBuhari Vanguard Calls For Immediate Arrest Of Oristejafor Over Arms Smuggling...
Condemning the illegal operation and the suspicious handling of a purported arms purchase, the Buhari Vanguard made the assertion that the weaponry was to be purchased for use by terrorists, pirates,...
View ArticleSeized Aircraft: CAN attacks El Rufai, Lai Mohammed
Our attention has been drawn to the desperation of some elements working for a particular political party within our society to tarnish the image of the President of Christian Association of Nigeria,...
View ArticleAnti-party Activities: PDP NEC May Suspend Tambuwal Tomorrow
Barring any change of mind, the leadership of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may at its 63rd National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting scheduled to hold tomorrow at its National...
View ArticleFour soldiers hurt in Boko Haram ambush in Kogi
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen opened fire on a military convoy at the weekend in Kogi state, injuring four soldiers, a senior military source said Tuesday. The convoy of 850 soldiers came under fire late...
View ArticleWhy Igbos and Yorubas cannot become president by Orji Kalu
Former Governor of Abia, Chief Orji Kalu, on Tuesday said an Igbo or Yoruba cannot become president of Nigeria without the support of other geo-political zones in the country. Orji who spoke to...
View ArticleBoko Haram: Nigerians are frustrated, helpless; angry Senate asks Mark to...
ABUJA— THE Senate, yesterday, canvassed tougher and full scale measures to end the Boko Haram insurgency. It said that the sect has declared war on Nigeria. The senators, who resumed from their...
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