by Hauwa Gambo The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has given in and and will now be re-posting those 14, 850 corps members sent to volatile Northern states. According to Punch, it has directed the affected corps members to report at the NYSC headquarters for redeployment to states considered safe. “A statement by the Director-General... Read More
by Isi Esene An official of the State Security Service, Abdulfaruk Dauda, told a Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday that former spokesman for Boko Haram, Kudunga Abdul, named Senator Ali Ndume from Borno, as a financier of the group. Abdul was sentenced to three years in prison after he confessed to being the spokesman for the group. Dauda, who... Read More
Apparently, the last has not been heard of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) saga. The Batch B NYSC members took their protest to the Lagos State House of Assembly yesterday and found support with the lawmakers. The students, mainly of the Lagos State University, carried placards with inscriptions like; “LASU says no to posting to... Read More
by Tolu Orekoya The rise in violence in Nigerian northern states have sent non-residents fleeing from the region, as bombings by terrorist group Boko Haram and reprisal attacks flourish. The National Youth Service Corps still deployed corps members to states such as Bauchi, Borno, Kaduna, Kano, Sokoto and Yobe, despite the lack of stability in those states. Some... Read More
by Mohammed Zagga ONCE again, the House of Representatives is in the storm of another bribery scandal, coming two months after the suspension of the Committee on Capital Markets, led by Herman Hembe. In the latest scandal, the Chairman of the ad-hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy Probe, Malam Faruk Lawan, was allegedly caught on video receiving a $620,000... Read More
by Sabella Abidde Other than the usual calamities wrought by Boko Haram, the simultaneous removal of the Minister of Defence, Dr. Haliru Bello, and the National Security Adviser, Gen. Owoye Azazi (retd.) last week by President Goodluck Jonathan immediately on arrival from his trip to Brazil for the United Nations Earth Summit has dominated the... Read More
Bombings by radical Islamist sect Boko Haram, and the retaliatory attacks have dominated the headlines in Nigeria for the last couple of months, preoccupying the nation, and governors are requesting a fund to be able to cope with the added security needs, and to be able to have their own state police who would answer to the governors. From ThisDay: Governors Monday canvassed for... Read More
by Tolu Orekoya The rumblings of a possible Boko Haram insurgence into the southern half of the country has created widespread fear as many question wbat cities might be possible targets.The Oodua People’s Congress has taken the offensive warning the Islamist sect to stay away from the south-west of the country In a report by the Punch newspaper, Founder and President... Read More
by Stanley Azuakola Christians in northern Nigeria have faced a grueling couple of months, fearful as they have watched a series of bomb attacks hit a succession of states in the region. As a result of the unrelenting Boko Haram onslaught against churches in the North, most Christians chose to stay away from their churches last Sunday June... Read More
by Diran Apata DRIP! Drip!! Drip!!! The violent spilling of blood in our country goes on. It does not only show no sign of ceasing, it only shows signs of continuing. Indeed, it shows signs of increasing – and of increasing beyond imagination. It is the most important piece of news from Nigeria these days. For... Read More
by Tolu Orekoya Reuters is reporting a prison break in Damaturu, Yobe, freeing the prisoners from the prisons, in a bold attack on Sunday. According to said Patrick Egbuniwe, Yobe State police commissioner, “There was an attack on the Yobe prison this morning, the Boko Haram sect attacked the prison through the Emir palace, 40 inmates escaped. “They attacked with rifles, the... Read More
by Stanley Azuakola $620,000 Enters Most Wanted List THE State Security Service (SSS) has placed the $620,000 bribe money taken by Farouk Lawan on the most wanted list. This is the first time that money instead of a criminal is placed on the list. Anyone who gives useful information on its whereabouts would be entitled... Read More
An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) bomb exploded in the Wuse 2 district Abuja last night , damaging vehicles in the capital city. While the destruction was minimal—with two sports utility vehicles (SUVs) and a sedan being damaged and no reported casualties—people in the nearby Crystal Lounge left in a hurry. The bomb was said to have exploded in... Read More
I have nothing against the Islamic faith. As a matter of fact some of my most loyal friends are practising Muslims. There are many Muslims in my family and my maternal great grandmother was an illustrious Fulani woman from the Muslim core North. I do however believe that there is a world of difference between a true Muslim and an Islamist.... Read More
by Elnathan John I interrupt the ‘How To’ series to say one thing. I am angry. Very angry. So if you want to laugh or have started your day happy stop right here. If your wife has given birth to that bouncing or jumping baby or if you are celebrating your husband’s finding God... Read More
by Stanley Azuakola Amidst all the gloom in the country as a result of Boko Haram’s continued assault in the North, there are still signs that little progress is being made. On Thursday June 21, the Joint Task Force recorded a breakthrough in the fight against the sect, when it arrested Habeeb Bama, a man... Read More
The diplomatic back and forth over the “terrorist” status of Boko Haram is heating up, as indications show that the US government is moving to label three of the Islamist sect’s alleged leaders as “foreign terrorists”. From Reuters: The U.S. government is expected to formally apply a “foreign terrorist” label on Thursday to three alleged leading figures of the violent... Read More
by Tolu Orekoya The suicide bomber lay bleeding on the hospital gurney, missing his fingers and some of his lower extremities, and his face covered with his own blood. He was being treated at Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Teaching Hospital, Bauchi, where he was taken after the deadly package in his backpack detonated, but died from his extensive injuries... Read More
by Aminu Sarki So, without doubt there is Boko Haram which aims to establish, according to them, a just social system of governance as they understand it, which path to its establishment is strewn with violence and there is a “Boko Haram” which uses the violence of the authentic sect as a cover for its own violence aimed at psychological... Read More
by Stanley Azuakola In March this year, Nigeria’s president Goodluck Jonathan was in Seoul, South Korea laying the ground work for Nigeria to become another country with nuclear reactors. While in that country, he granted an interview to the Yonhap news agency, in which he said that by June this year, his government would have overcome Boko Haram.... Read More
Now, face the music: Police arrest woman over Boko Haram Facebook comment