Boko Haram fighters are overrunning villages near the northeastern Nigerian town of Chibok, forcing hundreds of people to flee as the insurgents loot and burn in the area where nearly 300 schoolgirls were kidnapped in 2014, local leaders said Tuesday. “Chibok is now under Boko Haram siege,” the chairman of the Chibok local government area,…
AGENCY REPORT The fight against violent Islamic jihadists truly has become a global war on terror. The threat has metastasized like a cancer and is proving just as difficult to defeat. ISIS, which originated in Iraq and Syria, has conducted some 140 attacks in 29 countries just in the last two years. It has active…
From Osato Michael in Benin Many people were alleged to have sustained injuries today as protest embarked upon by the Civil Society Group turned violent in Benin, the Edo state capital. The coalition of civil society group had embarked on peaceful protest to registered their displeasure over the bill passed by the state House of …
The Minister of Environment, Mrs Amina Mohammed has disclosed that Nigeria’s N36 billion Green Bond would attract about 19 projects in the Environment, Agriculture and Power Sectors as well as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). This is even as she emphasized that the environment project would address reforestation through Jatropha plant; smart agriculture, biofuel/ Jatropha…
Yari disclosed this on Monday in a statewide broadcast on the security challenges facing the state. He also said that over 50 persons had been kidnapped during the period. He explained that 53 people were killed in Shinkafi Local Government Area; 50 in Maru Local Government Area; 37 in Maradun Local Government Area and 15…
Preye Jonathan in Bayelsa Bayelsa Caucus of the National Assembly has restated its commitment to collaborate with the Dickson-led administration to attract various development projects and programmes to the state. Chairman of the Caucus, Senator Foster Ogola stated this on Monday, when he led members to pay a solidarity visit to Governor Seriake Dickson in…
28 JSS Students Arrested in Asaba for Membership of ‘Future Trigger Boys’ Cult Group The Delta Police Command has arrested 28 suspected teenage cultists operating in some public secondary schools in Asaba, in Delta state capital The State Police Commissioner, CP Zanna Ibrahim, disclosed this at the weekend in Asaba. He said that the teenage…
Chinua Achebe Centre Writes World Bank to Block Buhari’s $29.9Bn Loan Bid The Chinua Achebe Center for Leadership and Development (CACLD) has advised the World Bank not to grant the $29.9 billion loan being requested by the Federal Government of Nigeria.It warned against granting the loan request in a letter addressed to Dr. Jim Yong…
Jane Mordi in Benin Two robbers of a four-man armed gang were reportedly shot dead by operatives of Edo State police command on Friday. The robbers were said to have met their waterloo after they successful shot an unidentified customer of a new generation bank on the lap and dispossessed him of his #500,000 around…
…Says efforts should be intensified in tackling peculiar needs of the region Ijaw leaders on Monday reiterated their call on Federal Government to completely jettison its military option towards addressing the Niger Delta crisis, saying the move would not yield the desired positive result. This was the central message of goodwill speeches delivered at the…
