YNaija Editorial: Welcome to the season of our discontent

The government’s response to the protests have been of suspicion… Promises have been made, but these are things we have heard on numerous other occasions. Much talk, some movement, but little action. It is currently a sad time to be a Nigerian citizen. There have never been times more bloody, or distressing or uncertain than... Read More

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May 17, 2014

Boko Haram’s link with Al-Qaeda has been established – Pres. Hollande

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

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May 15, 2014

Abimbola Adelakun: What will Nigeria do after Boko Haram?

by Abimbola Adelakun Yes, Boko Haram will end one day but the seed of terrorism will continue to germinate if we let the country remain vulnerable to the sort of maniac demagoguery that keeps fertilising various insurgent attacks. Whether we like it or not, Boko Haram has forever become a major part of the... Read More

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May 14, 2014

Opinion: Negotiating with terrorists only encourages terrorism

by Kenechukwu Oraelosi You’ve got to be strong, not weak. The only way to deal with these people is to bring them to justice. You can’t talk to them. You can’t negotiate with them. There is an assumption that negotiating with terrorists does encourage terrorism. Many countries believe this, and adopt it as their foreign... Read More

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May 7, 2014

Opinion: Mr. President, we don’t need you to resign (A rejoinder)

by Terseer Ugbor I will encourage him to stay on and should he desire to pursue re-election, he is free to do so. Winning, however, is another story. READ: YNaija Editorial: Mr. President, we’re going to need you to resign I make an obvious suggestion, if you want President Jonathan out, I suggest you maintain... Read More

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May 4, 2014

Mark Amaza: 9 questions we should be asking about Chibok (#YIssueOfTheWeek)

by Mark Amaza In the almost four years of the insurgency waged by the Boko Haram terrorist group, there has rarely been a crime committed by them as heinous as the abduction of 234 girls (or 270 girls) from a secondary school in Chibok, Borno State. In the almost three weeks since the abduction has... Read More

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April 30, 2014

Dele Agekameh: How Nigeria is romancing terrorism

by Dele Agekameh He said “the former governor got back to Nigeria and the following day, he declared Sharia. And from then, they were sending students for Jihadist training… As far as I am concerned, Boko Haram is an offshoot of Sharia”. In recent times, Nigeria has been bedeviled by all sorts of vices and... Read More

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April 22, 2014

Muhammadu Buhari: Nyanya bomb blast and the fight against terrorism in Nigeria

by Muhammadu Buhari These people lived anonymously and died the same way. We do not yet know their names. But, in a fundamental sense, we know who they were. They were part of us. Sinister terror and hatred have again reached from the shadows to steal the lives of innocent Nigerians. In Nyanya, seventy-two people were... Read More

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April 21, 2014

Opinion: Mr. President, we demand answers on terrorism

by Akan Imo We voted him in as the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, we voted him in to be in charge of every situation, we voted him in to give us answers, to give us result, to do impossible things. Firstly, I must use this opportunity to commiserate with the victims of the Nyanya... Read More

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April 20, 2014

Opinion: Dear Jonathan, this horror is taking too long to ‘fizzle out’

by Jonah Ayodele Obajeun We are now back at the mercy of Jonathan’s Fizzle Logic – that we will have to live with the burden of Boko Haram until it fizzles out. Welcome to our arid malady, to the land of corruptive emergencies, waste ridden interiors, of stick-thin, half-dead children staring fixedly in different... Read More

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April 18, 2014

Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani: In Nigeria, terrorism moves south

by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani The argument has been that more foreign involvement will trigger more violence by the terrorists, but it is clear that they do not need a trigger. Late last month, a workman on his way to my house rang to explain that he was running late because of the mayhem caused by... Read More

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April 15, 2014

#JoinTheConversation: Oby Ezekwesili calls for lasting solution to terrorism in Nigeria (TWEETS)

by Oge Okonkwo In the aftermath of the deadly bomb blasts which took place at Nyanya bus park in Abuja, killing scores of people and leaving over a 150 people injured, former Minister of Education, Obiageli Ezekwesili has advocated concerted efforts in finding a lasting solution to terrorism. Speculations are rife that the attacks were... Read More

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April 14, 2014

Tunde Leye: Enforcing the law within the law (Y! FrontPage)

by Tunde Leye There are thousands of Nigerians languishing in illegal detention, some tortured, and some killed. One wonders if the Boko Haram members that are freed in the numerous jailbreaks reported by the media were detained under the ambits of the law. Law enforcement must never be done outside the confines of the law,... Read More

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April 2, 2014

Opinion: But wait, must we support this PDP government?

by Aminu Yusuf Roni We all know what it takes to oppose the PDP: to say things as they were, done! That is so easy, certainly easier than calling APC, and its acolytes, Boko Haram sponsors albeit a certain Security Adviser – of the same PDP administration- once let the cat out of the bag... Read More

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March 30, 2014

Cheta Nwanze: A short history of Boko Haram

by Cheta Nwanze When someone attempts to negotiate on behalf of the group, think Baba Fugu Mohammed, he is quickly hunted down and killed. So, as things stand, the extremist elements within Boko Haram are the ones fully in control of the narrative. This morning, members of the Boko Haram movement attacked a DSS detention... Read More

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March 15, 2014

Troops capture Boko Haram armoury, recover arms, foreign currency – DHQ

by Akan Ido The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) on Saturday in Abuja said that troops, operating in the North-East, have captured a massive armoury with arms and ammunition belonging to insurgents. This information is contained in a statement signed by Maj-.Gen. Chris Olukolade, Director of Defence Information/Coordinator of the Joint Information Centre Counter Terrorism Campaign. Olukolade... Read More

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March 14, 2014

Under siege: Explosions heard as Boko Haram attacks military barracks in Borno

by Akan Ido The Boko Haram attacks in several parts of the North east state of Borno seems to have intensified with another major assault on an army barrack today. Three loud explosions and heavy gunfights were said to have been heard emanating from the barracks popularly known as Giwa Barracks right in the heart... Read More

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March 1, 2014

YNaija Editorial: But Mr. President, are you really celebrating?

by the Editorial team Why an extravagant commemoration of British rule is more important to this administration than the disturbing loss of young Nigerian lives is unclear and goes to show just how out of touch this government has become, detached from the realities of people it claims to be serving. On Wednesday, the nation... Read More

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February 28, 2014

Yobe massacre: We will bring the murderers to justice – Jonathan

by Akan Ido President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday vowed to bring the perpetrators of the Yobe College killings to justice. The president made this assurance in Abuja while addressing fellow African leaders who are in the country to attend Nigeria’s centenary celebrations. Jonathan condemned the massacre and urged African leaders to refrain from making their countries... Read More

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January 16, 2014

Opinion: Charles Okah and the absence of justice in Nigeria

by Sabella Abide Keeping the accused, as is the case with Charles Oyintombra Okah, locked up for years and under inhumane condition is not only indecent and cruel, it is against what justice, humanity and democracy call for. In recent years, the Nigerian government has been accused of indiscriminate arrests, harassment, and prosecution in its... Read More

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January 4, 2014

How runway was blocked and APC delegation prevented from landing at Gombe Airport

by Akintomiwa Agbaje An aircraft carrying a delegation led by a former Minister of State for Power and Steel, Muritala Aliyu, of the All Progressive Congress was prevented from landing at the Gombe Airport. Reports on Friday say that the aircraft was about to land when the pilot saw that a fire truck was parked at... Read More

January 2, 2014

Police investigate suicide by father of 7 in Abuja

by Akintomiwa Agbaje The death of Frederick Onigbo has led to the FCT police command to commence investigations into incidence. It occured on new year eve and is being investigated as an alleged suicide by the resident of Gwarimpa Estate in the Federal Capital Territory. According to a Vanguard report: Sources told Vanguard in Abuja... Read More

January 1, 2014

For the Record: President Goodluck Jonathan’s 2014 New Year message to Nigerians (Full text)

by Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR Between 2007 and 2013, we have almost tripled the allocation for education from N224 billion to N634 billion – and we will continue to vigorously support the sector. We have improved access to education in the country with the construction of 125 Almajiri schools, and the establishment of three... Read More

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December 31, 2013

Allah says we should decapitate, amputate & mutilate – Boko Haram

by Akintomiwa Agbaje As the year rounds of with celebrations and expectations for a great year ahead, the leader of the radical Islamic sect, Boko Haram, have contorted a new kind of promise to the list of savage acts: Decapitation, Amputation and Mutilation. Abubakar Shekau appeared in a new video promising to “decapitate and mutilate”... Read More

December 30, 2013

Terrible: 8 people killed as suspected Boko Haram gunmen attack bachelor party in Borno

by ‘Jola Sotubo Guests at a bachelor party in Borno received a rude shock when armed gunmen invaded the venue and opened fire. The attackers, suspected to be members of terrorist sect, Boko Haram, were said to have arrived at the location on motorcycles. This latest attack in the Tashan Alade area of the state... Read More

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