Mona Ogbeidi The Lagos police command says its attention has been drawn to one of its officers caught on camera beating up a woman even as it added that the officer has been identified and put behind bars. The Lagos police boss Umar Manko stated this on Friday through a statement issued in Lagos by […]
Oyewale Oyelola The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Doyin Okupe has stated that Nigeria is in war with Boko Haram. Doyin Okupe said this while responding to questions from Journalists on federal government effort in tackling terrorism in Nigeria. His words: “Nigeria is in war situation with Boko Haram. We are […]
Kayode Adelowokan As Nigeria joined the rest of the world to celebrate this year’s Easter, the Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun has enjoined Nigerians to always resolve their religious differences amicably rather than resort to violence. Amosun in his Easter message noted the triumph of Jesus Christ over death through His resurrection, adding that […]
Kayode Adelowokan The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL) has flayed the Federal Government over the $470m (N76bn) National Public Security Communications System Project in Abuja. The contract, which was awarded by the Federal Government and completed in 2012, aimed at providing voice, video and data using the Code Division Multiple Access technology to enable security […]
The leader of Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamists, Abubakar Shekau, has claimed responsibility for the Monday bombing in Nyanya Bus Park killing at least 75 people. The Islamist said in the 28 minutes video “We are the ones that carried out the attack in Abuja.” In the video Shekau is seen seated with a Kalashnikov rifle […]
In an effort to keep things ultra-super dooper private, guest won’t know the exact location of Kimye wedding until the wedding. day Mum will be the words on their lavish wedding which will take place in the city of Paris come May 24. Recently the power couple have been spotted in different location scouting for […]
Earlier this week, rapper Andre “Christ Bearer” Johnson – who belonged to the group Northstar and worked with members of the Wu-Tang Clan – made headlines after reportedly cutting off his penis and jumping from a building in an apparent suicide attempt. An attempt to reattach Johnson’s penis reportedly failed. But if anyone can relate […]
By Ayo Balogun No fewer that 14 students have again escaped from their Boko Haram abductors and have since been reunited with their families, the Borno State Commissioner for Education, Musa Kubo has confirmed. Kubo said 12 of the girls were found in the forest near Chibok Town where Boko Haram abducted them on Monday […]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of politicizing Nigeria’s security by engaging in outright deception to exclude APC Governors from the meeting the President himself had called for Thursday to discuss the security situation in the country. In a statement issued in Lagos on Friday […]
In line with the resolution of the Police High Command to ensure a seamless and secure Easter Celebration and beyond, the Nigeria Police Force has commenced special operations nationwide. The operations encompass extensive counter-terrorism sweeps, detailed overt and covert surveillance operations, intelligence-driven raids, arms mop-up exercise, special stop and search exercise, amongst others. Police operatives […]
By Mona Ogbeidi The Muslim Rights Concern has described the Nigerian State Security Services as unprofessional security outfit following statements issued by the agency urging all churches around the country to be alert and security conscious. The group’s Director Professor Ishaq Akintola, in a statement, stressed that the statement exposes the prejudice in Nigeria’s security […]
By Mona Ogbeidi In the light of the ongoing insecurity across Nigeria, the Muslim Rights Concern MURC, a religious group has condemned the spate of violence in past weeks even as it lamented concentration of the security paraphernalia around high-ranking political office holders. The group, in a statement signed by its Director, Professor Ishaq Akintola, […]
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu The entire Aji Community, in Igbo Eze North Local Government Area, of Enugu State, has been thrown into serious confusion and tension, following the alleged killing of a middle aged man, Obinna Onoja, by a faction of the community’s vigilante group. African Examiner reports that the unfortunate incident is coming barely one […]
Agabus Pwanagba, Jos The All Progressive Congress (APC) was conspicuously absent at the first training for all political party Chairmen in Nigeria, with the other 24 parties well represented. The training was organized by the Political Parties Leadership and Policy Development Centre which is situated at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) […]
Oyewale Oyelola The Network on Police Reform in Nigeria (NOPRIN) has petitioned the Chairman of the Police Service Commission over allegations of rape made against the DPO Adekunle Awe of the Onikan Police Station by a detainee, Miss Idowu Akinwunmi. This petition signed National Coordinator of NOPRIN, Okechukwu Nwanguma stated that, Miss Adewunmi, 31, made […]
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Orlu, in Imo state At least, three persons were feared dead Thursday evening when gas explosion occurred at Seamaster Industries Limited, Amaifeke in Orlu Local Government Area of Imo State. The indigenous company produces vegetable oil and table water. According to the company source who do not want his name in print, the […]
The Federal Government has reassured the international community of the safety of all participants during the World Economic Forum Africa meeting scheduled to hold in Abuja next month. The Supervising Minister of National Planning, Ambassador Bashir Yuguda who made this known at a briefing in his office on Thursday also thanked the international community for […]
The Military authorities in Nigeria has retracted claims that it aided the release of nearly all the secondary school girls kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram members in Chibok, Borno state last Tuesday. The retraction by the military came some few hours after a parent of an abducted girl claimed the Defense Ministry lied that most […]
By Prof. R.A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria Our lovely world is undergoing series of happenings and many of us feel that if there was a creator of this wicked universe he must have been dead. We hear of killings, bombing and not only in Nyanya Abuja Nigeria, kidnappings every day, wars and rumours of […]
The Nigerian Government has on Thursday released a list of names and contacts of 126 persons receiving treatment in various hospitals after a powerful explosion occurred in Nyanya, Abuja, on the morning of Monday, April 14. The authorities report that over 75 people were killed in the blast at the crowded bus park in Abuja’s […]
