Tag: Boko Haram
The Agony Of A Tumbling Nation
By Abimbola Emdin-Umeh One cannot but agree with renowned Pastor and activist, Tunde Bakare, when he declared at the wake…
Bomb Blast, Abducted Girls And Insecurity In Nigeria
By Bilikis Bakare The spate of insecurity in the country is becoming very alarming. While we are yet to come…
A Nation Adrift
International monitoring agencies occasionally rate how well or unhealthy a nation fares. Whether it is the Human Development Index, HDI,…
Boko Haram seizes Nigeria’s border town
Scores of Boko Haram gunmen riding in armoured vehicles razed the Nigerian border town of Gamboru Ngala on Monday and…
Anxiety Over World Economic Forum In Abuja
The 24th World Economic Forum on Africa to be held between 7 and 9 of May, will bring together regional…
The Beginning Of The End Or The End Of The Beginning? Part 1
By Henry Chukwuemeka Onyema You do not need to be a Jean-Paul Satre to see the sense of worry inherent…
Sheraton Beefs Up Security Over Bomb Threat
Jamiu Yisa There are strong indications that the management of Sheraton Hotels, Ikeja, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, has fortified its security…
Chibok Schoolgirls: Jonathan’s Wife Orders Protest Leaders Arrested
Oluokun Ayorinde/Abuja Nigeria Police on Monday allegedly acting on the orders of Mrs. Patience Jonathan, arrested Mrs. Naomi Mutah Nyadar,…
Lagos Shuts Markets For Chibok Schoolgirls
Jamiu Yisa & Sulaimon Mojeed-Sanni The Iyaloja-General of Nigeria, Mrs Folashade Tinubu-Ojo has ordered the shutting down of all Lagos…
Boko Haram leader vows to sell abducted schoolgirls
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has vowed to sell hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped in northern Nigeria three weeks ago, in…
Jonathan seeks Obama’s help over abducted schoolgirls
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday said that his government is seeking help from US President Barack Obama to overcome…
CAN Releases Names Of Kidnapped Chibok Schoolgirls
The names of the schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram gunmen from their dormitories on 15 April, 2014 have been released…
Nigerian army arrests foreigners, others, over Abuja terror attacks
Nigeria military authority said on Saturday that it has arrested eight persons over the recent bombing attacks in the Federal…
US will do ‘everything possible’ to rescue Nigeria girls – Kerry
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday vowed that Washington will do “everything possible” to help Nigeria deal with…
Terrorism: US warns on Shebab, Boko Haram threats
The worldwide terror threat is evolving as Al-Qaeda linked groups and other militants become increasingly violent and Syria spawns a…
200 Abducted Schoolgirls Sighted
There are reports that 200 of the schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram insurgents have been sighted in southern Borno in…
Bi-Partisan Meeting On Security, Good Step But…
For about the first time, President Goodluck Jonathan, governors of the 36 states of the federation and all members of…
Emergency Rule Extension And The Fate Of Three Governors
On May 14, 2013, President Goodluck Jonathan declared a six-month state of emergency in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states following…
Boko Haram: Jonathan, Govs In Crucial Talks
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja The enlarged security meeting between President Goodluck Jonathan, the 36 state governors and the Nigeria military chiefs over…
Terrorists Want To Paralyse Government
Labaran Maku, the Minister of Information, fielded questions from journalists after a meeting of Federal Executive Council devoted to discussing…
The Boko Haram Beasts
The bomb blasts in Nyanya, on the outskirts of Abuja, that killed more than 75 people on 14 April, and…
Boko Haram Scare On Lagos/Ibadan Expressway
Kazeem Ugbodaga There was panic in Lagos and some parts of Ogun State this morning following rumours that members of…
Boko Haram Threatens To Kill Abducted Schoolgirls
The fate of over 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram from their hostels at Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok,…
Aregbesola Calls For Mass Protest Over Missing Schoolgirls
Kazeem Ugbodaga Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola has called for nationwide mass protest against Islamic terrorists, Boko Haram over the…
Yoruba’ll defend themselves if attacked—Afenifere
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Afenifere Renewal Group, ARG, has said the Yoruba people in southwest Nigeria will defend themselves by any…
Boko Haram: Abducted school girls jump to 234
The number of secondary school girls still under Boko Haram captivity is more than the figure widely circulated. There are…
Jonathan: Nigeria will survive despite Boko Haram
President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday vowed to keep Nigeria a united country despite the attempts by Boko Haram militants to…
Borno Christians begin fasting for abducted school girls
Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Borno state has declared fasting from Monday to Wednesday to seek divine intervention for…
85 school girls still missing, 24 escape
Eighty-five of the abducted 129 school girls in Chibok, Borno State are still missing, an education official said, on the…
News Analysis: Big blow on Nigeria’s military
By Bayo Onanuga Skeptics of Nigeria’s military campaign against the murderous Boko Haram gunmen in Nigeria’s northeast now have a…