Tag: north-east

Op-Ed Editor 9 years

@Tundeleye: GEJ has failed the people in the North-East (Y! FrontPage)

by Tunde Leye In the North East, we have lost territory. We cannot keep our citizens’ lives and properties secure there. What is worse, the government announces dubious ceasefires with…

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Kolapo Olapoju 9 years

Mr. President, what is going on with the Boko Haram ceasefire? – BBOG

by Kolapo Olapoju The Abuja chapter of the #BringBackOurGirls campaigners have released a statement imploring President Goodluck Jonathan to act swiftly and decisively to end the menace of Islamic terrorist sect, Boko…

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YEditor 10 years

#BokoHaram abducts another two dozen girls

by Chidi Okoye Suspected Boko Haram militants kidnapped at least 25 girls in an attack on a remote town in north-eastern Nigeria, witnesses have told the Reuters news agency. This,…

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10 years

Rudolf Okonkwo: President Jonathan’s greatest speech

by Rudolf Okonkwo   Tomorrow, I will publicly release my assets declaration forms that I submitted to the ICPC. And I will direct all my ministers to do the same.…

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10 years

Military says it will not use force to rescue abducted Chibok girls, NUT wants life insurance for teachers, students in the North-east & other important news you should know today

by Oge Okonkwo Military says it will not use force to rescue abducted Chibok girls The Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, said on Monday that the military…

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10 years

Tunde Leye: We must take the mutineers’ complaints more seriously

by Tunde Leye One only has to look at the sequence of causes in Mali and see the dangerous parallels with the current handling of the grumblings and growling of…

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10 years

Opinion: This boat called Nigeria is sinking!

by Victoria Obazim-Ohaeri   This is a very trying period in the country’s history. The Nigerian boat is sinking with unrestrained haste. It is in trying times like this that…

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10 years

Abimbola Adelakun: What does Murtala Nyako really know about Boko Haram?

by Abimbola Adelakun First, how can Nyako be so certain that there is “simply no person in the North-East rich enough to foot the financial and logistic bills of Boko…

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10 years

Opinion: To succeed against Boko Haram, we must plan for a long war (Part 1)

by Muktar Usman-Janguza This emerging stalemate whereby the army and the civilian JTF control the regional capitals while BH dominates the peripheries cannot be allowed to concretise. Because, like a…

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10 years

Opinion: Government’s insensitivity and the need for collective re-strategy in the North-East

by Abubakar Musa we must realize that Mr President (GEJ), who has all the security apparatchiks and buoyant resources under his control, isn't a southern President but nigeria's. Unless the…

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10 years

Opinion: Why the next president MUST come from the North-east

by Bukar Mustapha Therefore, as the calculations begin for 2015, it is our prevent hope that this time around, the larger North plays the fair card for the North-East in…

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10 years

3 Boko Haram members arrested for duping amnesty panel of N70 million

by 'Jola Sotubo   Three men who took advantage of a call for peace talks to impersonate members of terrorist sect, Boko Haram have been arrested and charged to court…

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10 years

Opinion: Nigeria has both the good and bad sides

by Eric Teniola I do not see such in the present day Nigeria. Right now there is a war going on in the North-East, no one knows when the war…

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