• President-elect renews pledge to tackle corruption AT exactly 2.35pm on Tuesday, the Presidentelect, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), was formally presented with his certificate of return by the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof.
Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou has said that “the end of Boko Haram is near.” Issoufou spoke with VOA French to Africa news service Tuesday during a visit to Washington. He said Boko Haram “is not eradicated but was greatly weakened” by an offensive launched by multinational forces late in January. Since then, troops from Nigeria, Niger,
Recently in Jimeta Yola Adamawa state administrative headquarters of both Tapital pulaku international and state Secretariat respectively there is a high number of street bergers roaming the knocks and crannies of the two towns to get a means of survival, our correspondent investigate and found out that most of the people begging along the streets […]
The Nigerian Army has foiled an attack by some members of the Boko Haram terrorist group in Gombe State, North-East Nigeria, killing 3 of them in the process. While parading the corpses of the insurgents before reporters at the army barracks in Gombe, the state capital, the spokesperson of the 301 Artillery regiment said one […]
In the past four years, Nigeria has been under siege from the Boko Haram, a rag tag group of fundamentalists with a mission to convert the country to an Islamic theocracy. Before now, there was the tendency to dismiss the threat as nothing but a manageable irritation. But as the Boko Haram insurgency assumed a […]
Inside the Boko Haram (BH) camp, like in any other terrorist organisation, all is never full of roses as many may assume, they also have their internal war to unravel. Research shows that reasonable amount of BH members are not uniformly motivated by the cause, nor equally willing to sacrifice for the cause and the […]
At least two people were killed in a suspected Boko Haram attack on polling stations in northeast Nigeria on Saturday, residents and an election official told AFP. The attacks happened in the villages of Birin Bolawa and Birin Fulani in the Nafada district of Gombe state, which has been repeatedly targeted by the Islamists. An […]
For the north to reel out of its squalour, there is definitely a need for major rethinking, an inside-out revolution of mindset. A region and its people cannot develop when a handful of its population can ‘live high on the hog’ almost for eternity. Witness how many traditional rulers, ‘first class’ Emirs and Chiefs especially, […]
With Boko Haram terrorising and sacking towns and villages in the North, some Islamic countries, like Sudan and Chad, are aiding them because of oil in Chad basin, and the Nigerian army is struggling with out of date arms, after years of producing millionaire generals. It would appear that the hand writing is on the […]
Going by the timeline of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), campaigns for presidential and National Assembly elections should commence this month, including those for state houses of Assembly. Since the commencement of the Fourth Republic, the nation has been experiencing various challenges in building virile institutions, fighting sectarian crises and
Since the unfortunate entry of the Boko Haram terror sect into Nigeria some years back, several reasons have been adduced to why it has refused to disappear from the political landscape. Just on Saturday, the Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, listed the weakness of the Nigerian state as one reason the sect has been […]
The recent visit to Borno State by President Goodluck Jonathan should be applauded by all wellmeaning Nigerians. The visit took him to camps for displaced persons and the military hospital where he saw firsthand soldiers wounded in battles while fighting Boko Haram insurgents. Following this, a lot of comments and insinuations have been made for […]
If the North’s problems would have been solved by having a Northerner in power, the North ought to have been a paradise by now. No. The problem of both North and South can only be solved by having the right people in power not once in a while, but all the time. Vision and discipline […]
The Nigerian Military has recaptured Gwoza, a Local Government Area of Borno State, a border town about 135 kilometres South-East of Maiduguri. Disclosing this in Abuja n Friday, the director of defence information, Major General Chris Olukolade, said, Gwoza was freed of the militants this morning. Olukolade further disclosed that Nigerian troops had engaged the […]
The United Nations Human Rights Council has been requested to host a special session next week on abuses by Boko Haram militants in Nigeria and neighboring countries, the council president said Friday. The U.N.’s top rights body received the request late Thursday from Algeria, on behalf of the group of African countries, president Joachim Ruecker […]
A coordinated attack is set to be carried out by the military to liberate Gwoza, Borno State, from Boko Haram captivity as the defence authorities have deployed four attack helicopters and two air force fighter jets to flush out the terrorists in the areas. A reliable source in the military told our correspondent on Thursday […]
The Federal Government has dismissed reports making the rounds that Boko Haram insurgents on Tuesday abducted 500 children from the north-eastern town of Damasak. Reacting to the reports, the head, Nigeria Information Centre, Mr. Mike Omeri, refuted the number saying that the figure was lower, but he could not say exactly how many had been […]
The Japanese government, through its embassy in Nigeria, has donated $770,000 (about N154 million) to the Nigerian Red Cross Society for the rehabilitation of Boko Haram victims in the north-east of the country. The Nigerian Red Cross will implement programmes, which would focus largely on enabling healthy and safe living for affected families, targeting vulnerable […]
President Goodluck Jonathan has said that he is ready to sign another peace agreement with General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.) to further demonstrate his commitment to violence-free elections. Jonathan spoke at a closed-door meeting with a delegation of the National Committee on Peaceful Elections led by former Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd) on Wednesday. […]
Far from being over, the war on insurgency inNigeria may have only just begun. Fleeing citizens were on Tuesday reported to have claimed that at least 400 persons have again being abducted by members of the terrorist group in Damask, Borno State. It was learnt, also on Tuesday, that military authorities arrested a suspected […]
