by S’ola Filani The Nigerian military allegedly barred 278 Islamic pilgrims, including a senator, Mohammed Ali Ndume, headed for the Umrah pilgrimage from boarding a flight out of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State on Friday. SaharaReporters claims the military prevented the senator and other pilgrims from boarding the chartered aircraft and forced... Read More
by Akan Ido Mallam Husseini, a notorious terrorist suspected to be a member of the Boko Haram Islamic sect has been killed in a shoot-out with military men along the Jos-Bauchi highway. Reports say Husseini led a terrorist cell in Plateau and was also said to have led an attack on the Police Anti-Robbery Squad... Read More
by Akan Ido The Nigerian Army has vowed to continue its clampdown on the media until it is satisfied that its activities does not pose a threat to the already deteriorating security situation in the country. The military said the clampdown on newspapers distribution networks in the country was as a result of intelligence report... Read More
by Isi Esene Reports coming in from Gombe indicate that two people have died after a female suicide bomber detonated a bomb along Biu Road. According to TheCable sources: “The explosion occurred at about 11am along Military Quarter Guard, along Biu Road in Gombe. “The woman had the explosive in her bag, but the thing went... Read More
by Isi Esene Human rights activist, Femi Falana seems to think differently about President Goodluck Jonathan’s decision not to visit Chibok, Borno state. The dusty town of Chibok suddenly drew media attention when about 276 schoolgirls were on April 14 abducted from their dormitories by members of the Boko Haram Islamic sect. Many have called on... Read More
by Akan Ido President Goodluck Jonathan and his French counterpart, Francois Hollande has linked the Boko Haram Islamic militant sect with Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda terrorist group. While speaking at the end of the African Regional Summit in Paris, Jonathan told newsmen that the Islamic sect operating in Northern Nigeria is far different from that... Read More
by Akan Ido Former Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, Chukwudifu Oputa, 96 is dead. He died today in Abuja. Justice Oputa led the Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission (HRVIC), popularly known as the Oputa Panel. The panel was initiated by the Olusegun Obasanjo Obasanjo administration in year 2000 to investigate abuses during 15 years of... Read More
by ‘Jola Sotubo The crisis in Rivers has been analyzed by Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka and he puts the blame squarely on the shoulders of the state police commissioner, Mbu Joseph Mbu. Prof. Soyinka also blamed President Goodluck Jonathan and accused him of “looking elsewhere for the smoke in the plane” when “the fire is... Read More
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by ‘Jola Sotubo A near fatal mishap was recorded in Borno at the weekend as a fighter jet of one of the armed forces reportedly bombed the convoy of a senator. Senator Ali Ndume was said to be on his way to visit some victims of Boko Haram attacks when the incident happened. The bombing... Read More
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