Tag: Boko Haram
Niger Citizens Shelve Protest In Lagos
Citizens of Niger Republic have postponed a planned protest and press conference in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, a spokesperson said on…
Jonathan sets up amnesty panel for Boko Haram
President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday approved the setting up of a committee to consider the issue of granting amnesty to…
Boko Haram Scare: 400 Niger Citizens Plan Protest
At least 400 citizens of Niger Republic would stage a protest on Monday in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, to distance themselves…
Why We Are Silent On Boko Haram In Lagos
Deputy Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Taiwo Kolawole, is known for his frank comments on issues. In…
Pope Francis begs Boko Haram to free hostages
Pope Francis in his first Easter Sunday celebration appealed to the Boko Haram militants in Nigeria to free the hostages…
Boko Haram makes Arsenal scrap visit to Nigeria
ARSENAL have revealed reasons they scrapped plans to play a friendly match in Nigeria in July. The Daily Star on…
General Abubakar backs amnesty for Boko Haram
Nigeria’s former Military Head of State Abdulsalami Abubakar has joined other Nigerians to seek amnesty for members of the Islamic…
Don’t Grant Amnesty To Boko Haram —Primate Ayodele
Granting amnesty to members of the Islamic sect, Boko Haram would have negative consequences on Nigeria’s security. The founder of…
Fashola Orders Removal Of Abandoned Vehicles From Parks
Following threats by Islamic terrorists, Boko Haram, Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has ordered evacuation of all abandoned vehicles…
MEND Threatens Mayhem Over Sentencing Of Okah
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, has rejected the 24-year jail term passed Tuesday on Henry…
Boko Haram: Need For Vigilance In Lagos
The discovery of assault weapons and improvised explosive devices at a house in Ijora, Lagos, suspected to be inhabited by…
Boko Haram: Between Amnesty And Dialogue For The Ghosts Of Terror
By Theophilus Ilevbare The call by the Sultan of Sokoto and National leader of the Muslim faith, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar…
Ribadu faults Jonathan’s ‘No Amnesty to Boko Haram ghosts’
Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to grant amnesty…
Emir Bayero: Kano bombing meant to split Nigerians
The Emir of Nigeria’s largest northern city of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero has described Monday’s bomb attack on a luxury…
French Hostages: Boko Haram Warns Against Use Of Force
A Nigerian Islamist group warned against the use of force to free a French man and six members of his…
Kano Massacre: The Height Of Provocation
By Joy Igbokwe “I have lost my nose. There is a deep gorge in my stomach, I am placed on…
Kano: 9 cops seriously wounded in ambush
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano P.M. NEWS has confirmed that the staccato of gun fire Wednesday morning at the Sharada Phase 111 axis…
The Kano Bus Park Blasts
Nigerians were again jolted by the bombing of a Lagos-bound luxury bus and other south-bound buses at the Sabon Gari…
Bomb Survivors: ‘We saw a Golf car speeding towards us’
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano As relations of the dead scout around morgues in Nigeria’s Kano hospitals in search of their own, survivors…
Kano bombing: Police under-report casualties
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano As the Nigerian authorities evaluate Tuesday’s bombing of the luxury bus terminal in Kano, in terms of the…
KANO BOMB BLASTS: Death Toll Rises
The death toll arising from a series of blasts targeting buses full of passengers in Nigeria’s second largest city of…
Scores of bus passengers dead in multiple blasts
Maduabuchi Nmeribe/kano with agency reports Scores of bus passengers at the New Road Luxury Terminal, Sabon Gari, Kano northwest Nigeria…
We Are Kept In Desert, Says Head Of Kidnapped French Family
Patriarch of the French family kidnapped in Cameroon has spoken, according to a report by the news agency, AFP. In…
Boko Haram: A People’s Alternative To Peace
By Adewale Adeoye Recently, tear-soaked Mrs Deborah Shetima from Borno state gave a gory account of how her husband was…
Boko Haram Kills Two PDP Leaders
Two prominent members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Borno State, northeast Nigeria, have been shot dead by gunmen…
Re: 83% Blocks For Northerners: A Monumental Scandal
By Ben Nanaghan On March 6, 2013, the Nigeria Senate in a closed door session debated the salient aspects of…
Conflict Over Figure Of Slain Christians
Christians in Kano are engaged in a hot dispute with the police over the actual number of their members killed…
Britain identifies citizen killed in Nigeria
Britain has revealed the identity of its citizen killed by Nigeria’s terror group, Anasaru. He was Brendan Vaughan. He was…
Terrorists strike in Kano after VP Sambo’s visit
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Gunmen on tricycles launched attacks at Hotoro, Sharada and Dakata areas of Kano, northwest Nigeria killing three pesons…
Italy: Nigeria’s hostage killings ‘horrific terrorism’
Italy’s foreign ministry has described as ”horrific terrorism”, the killing by Ansaru terror group in Nigeria of seven foreign hostages…