SALLAH: Boko Haram targets prayer grounds
By KINGSLEY OMONOBI The 7 Division of the Nigerian Army has banned all vehicular movements in and around Maiduguri, the Borno State capital for 72 hours. This followed alleged intelligence reports...
View ArticleDeath Toll Rises As Boko Haram Attacks, Gulak’s Father Dies
MOHAMMED ISMAIL and ACHOR ABIMAJE Reports from Madagali local government area of Adamawa State, one of the local governments currently under the siege of Boko Haram insurgents, indicated that the...
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13 years after aquittal in Britain:My grouse against the US, by Buruji Kashamu
I spent 45 days in prison because they just wanted to nail me unjustifiably! “I went to court 46 times”. Those were his first shots while recounting his ordeal in a British cell and his yo-yo movement...
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Confusion over Beheading: ‘How air force pilot was captured, killed’
Weather, not terrorists, downed fighters jet— DHQ By Kingsley Omonobi, with agency report There was confusion, yesterday, over the alleged beheading, by Boko Haram, of an air force pilot whose fighter...
View ArticleSynagogue: Lagos begins probe Oct. 13
The Lagos State Government has said the coroner it inaugurated to probe the circumstances surrounding the collapse of a six-storey building belonging to the Synagogue Church of All of Nations will...
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Why Jonathan should send Sambo to negotiate with B’Haram – Bishop Umunna reveals
Bishop Leonard Nwoma Umunna is the General Overseer and the Presiding Bishop of Bible Life Church Cathedral (BLCC) which he founded in 1982 with headquarters in Ajegunle area of Lagos....
View Article“I’m no longer interested in N25m compensation” – Baba Suwe
Nollywood comic-actor, Babatunde Omidina, popularly known as Baba Suwe, says he has moved on from the cocaine smuggling scandal, and N25 million settlement he was being owed by the National Drug Law...
View ArticleEid El-Kabir: Military bans movement of vehicles till Monday in Borno
In view of the security situation in the state, the 7th Division of the Nigerian Army has restricted vehicular movements from Friday the 2nd September to Monday 6th September, throughout the state. The...
View ArticleGeneral Bamaiyi’s sister, granddaughter assassinated in Kebbi
This year’s Sallah celebration turned sour in Zuru, Kebbi State following the assassination of Mrs Saratu Bamaiyi, elder sister of retired Lt Gen Ishaya Bamaiyi, and her granddaughter. The 75-year-old...
View ArticleA President’s gaffe on National Day, by Balarabe Musa
Veteran politician and second republic governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, diagnoses President Goodluck Jonathan’s National Day speech. What do you make of the claim by President Goodluck...
View ArticleObasanjo To Mark, Tinubu, Others: I’m Indifferent To PDP, APC
Bayo Oladeji and ANKELI EMMANUEL Former President Olusegun Obasanjo remains indifferent to the pressures coming from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC), which...
View ArticleAmaechi charges Rivers people to vote out Jonathan
The Rivers state Governor, Rotimi Amaechi has charged the people of the state to vote against President Goodluck Jonathan if he seeks re-election in 2015. Amaechi gave the charge particularly to the...
View ArticleEkiti Crisis: Why Fayose should submit himself for trial — Olatunbosun reveals
The Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State, Mr. Taiwo Olatunbosun, in this interview with FEMI MAKINDE,says Governor-elect Ayo Fayose unleashed attack on the judiciary to...
View ArticleAPC preferres Ebola disease to continue, Says PDP
By Henry Umoru ABUJA- NATIONAL leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP said, Sunday, the national success recorded on Ebola Virus Disease was because President Goodluck Jonathan refused to...
View ArticleSynagogue insists building collapse was ‘controlled demolition’
By Ikenna Asomba Barely seven days to the commencement of the coroner’s inquest instituted by the Lagos State Government to establish the cause and manner of the recent collapse of a building within...
View ArticleBoko Haram: It is biblical for Christians to defend themselves — Bagobiri
By Luka Binniyat ZANGON KATAF—The Catholic Bishop of Kafanchan Diocese, Bishop Joseph Bagobiri said yesterday it was a religious obligation binding on Christians to use, “moderate and proportionate...
View ArticleA MUST READ: Kwankwaso and the ‘two Kano’s
About a fortnight ago, I received a text message inviting me to visit Kano. It was sent by Alhaji Halilu Baba Dantiye, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor of Kano State, Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso....
View ArticleUPDATE: Military orders arrest of General for running into bush with troops...
By Kingsley Omonobi ABUJA—There were indications, weekend, that the Army High Command has ordered the arrest and detention of a Brigadier-General attached to the 3rd Division of the Nigerian Army...
View ArticleCorps member donates first source of potable drinking water to 100-year-old...
Dungu community in Lafia local government area of Nasarawa State yesterday celebrated the commissioning of a water project donated by a serving corps member, Barrister Stella Samuel. It is the first...
View Article11,100 Dead From Boko Haram Attacks – Report
The Nigeria Social Violence Dataset, now publicly available, reports that since July 2009 when the Boko Haram conflict escalated, at least 11,100 people have died on both sides of the insurgency. The...
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