Tag: boko haram
Cheta Nwanze: See what Boko Haram has caused (Y! FrontPage)
by Cheta Nwanze In order to stem the ugly tide of huge losses in foreign reserves to unjustifiable importation of ...
Opinion: Boko Haram and a woman born in Zaria
by Patience Akpan-Obong If you are non-white or have a ‘foreign’ name, you’re constantly encountering people who dismiss the fact that ...
“The bargaining table, not the battlefield, wins victory” – American civil rights leader, Jesse Jackson supports amnesty for Boko Haram
by Rachel Ogbu American civil rights leader and Baptist minister, Rev. Jesse Jackson, has shown support for amnesty to members ...
Opinion: Forget Boko Haram, let me introduce you to the real Nigerian terrorists
by Akin Fadeyi After engaging with security chiefs last week on return from his aborted trip to Namibia, not a ...
Boko Haram militants may be tried for war crimes – UN
No fewer than 50 Boko Haram militants and three soldiers died in separate battles between the insurgents and security agents ...
Dele Momodu: President Jonathan has a dark, lonely road ahead
by Dele Momodu Fellow Nigerians, after several years of prevarication, dilly-dallying and apparent confusion about how to tackle the dangerously ...
SHOCKING: How British construction worker was executed in a toilet by Boko Haram [DETAILS]
The family of a British construction worker murdered by his Islamist kidnappers just minutes after a joint UK and Nigerian ...
Emergency rule is not a panacea for peace – Afenifere warns Jonathan
by Isi Esene The Afenifere Renewal Group (ARG) has called on the Goodluck Jonathan government to declare a state of ...
Opinion: Letter to Mr President – The ball is in your court
by Ekene Eziagulu Nigeria is indeed living in interesting times; interesting but dangerous times. Dear Mr President, How are you ...
John Campbell: Escaping Nigeria’s cycle of violence
by John Campbell While Jonathan is trying to build support among the political class, his rivals are seeking to create ...
#SOE: Troops in Borno recapture 3 LGAs from Boko Haram
by Rachel Ogbu Nigerian soldiers are believed to have recaptured three of the local government areas where Boko Haram had ...
#SOE: Northern elders accuse Jonathan of declaring war on the region
by Rachel Ogbu Northern elders who rejected the federal government’s declaration of a state of emergency in three states have ...
“We came to drop a bomb”: Shoprite receives SMS bomb threat in Lagos
by Rachel Ogbu Police are now investigating a text message to Shoprite owner threatening to blow up outlets in Lagos state On ...
Just in: Explosion rocks Buhari’s hometown, Daura
by Hauwa Gambo There are reports of an explosion and gunshots on Thursday night in the otherwise quiet town of ...
If you say GEJ has no original thinking, where is your own? – and more, in today’s news roundup with Cheta Nwanze
by Cheta Nwanze While simultaneously failing to give us an alternative solution to the #BokoHaram menace, Uncle Lai said that ...
BREAKING: It has begun – Army offensive against Boko Haram now on, raids Sambisa camp
by Hauwa Gambo Following the declaration of a State of Emergency in three states of northern Nigeria, an offensive has ...
Let the people say #Gbam: “Those opposed to State of Emergency must bring out concrete solutions” – Femi Falana
by Isi Esene Fiery lawyer and human rights activist, Femi Falana has thrown his support for the institution of a ...
Opinion: The way the media reports Boko Haram needs to change
by Ifeoluwapo Odedere This piece is not a dissection of the activities of the Boko Haram Sect, neither is it ...
Bola Tinubu: State of emergency – President Jonathan’s ploy to subvert constitutional democracy
by Bola Tinubu If development is about the people, all measures put in place for the sustenance and maintenance of ...
‘Gbenga Sesan: Before Nigerians lose their internet freedom – Stop, Jonathan, stop
by ‘Gbenga Sesan As shouts of “Run, Jonathan, Run” ring towards 2015, asking Nigeria’s president to seek a second term ...
Opinion: Amnesty for Boko Haram is a ploy – and it will fail
by Onyiorah Paschal Strangely enough, instead of an outright condemnation of this position by Northern leaders and their sympathizers that ...
Opinion: Why Jonathan’s state of emergency is futile
by Aliyu Tilde The President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, has just bought another dummy called state of emergency from his security ...
Anarchy: Boko Haram kills Borno CAN secretary minutes after GEJ’s state of emergency announcement
Gunmen, believed to be members of the extremist Boko Haram sect, on Tuesday evening shot dead the Borno Secretary of ...
Boko Haram are not Muslims – Commissioner of Police
by NAN The Police Commissioner in Abia, Usman Abubakar, has described Boko Haram as deviants of the society that must ...
Action President, yes? Jonathan holds “very frank” meeting with amnesty committee
President Goodluck Jonathan, on Tuesday, met with members of the Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution of Security Challenges ...
Boko Haram: We kidnapped women and children – Shekau
by Rachel Ogbu Islamic sect, Boko Haram, has announced in a video that it had kidnapped some women, young girls ...
Papa is back! Oritsejajor re-elected as CAN president, immediately warns Christians about “Fulani herdsmen”
by Isi Esene Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor has been re-elected as the president of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) ...
Opinion: How Nigeria became a kingdom of goons
by Abubakar Adam Ibrahim Where the American government vowed to bring the murderers of three of its citizens to justice, ...
Illegal deductions as the start – and more, in today’s news roundup with Cheta Nwanze
by Cheta Nwanze Nigerian employers sadly (and not all of them it must be said), do not generally feel the ...
Ife Adebayo: The hunger for change is the power of the APC (Y! Politico)
by Ife Adebayo What we have now is a national shift in political advisers; Nigerians are tired of listening to ...
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