The Nigeria Army said on Sunday that it will no longer condone any form of false allegation of brutality by its personnel from Biafran agitators otherwise known as Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. The army also described the secessionist group as a “criminal gang”. This warning came from the 6 Division of the Nigeria Army,…
The Nigerian Community in South Africa has confirmed attacks and looting of Nigerian-owned businesses in Pretoria West on Saturday. Ikechukwu Anyene, president, Nigeria Union, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on telephone from Pretoria, South Africa, that the attacks began at 4.00 a.m. He said the union had reported the incident to the Nigerian…
Battling multiple bombers strapped with suicide vests, Nigerian troops and civilian self-defense fighters on Friday repelled the fiercest Boko Haram extremist attack in months on the key northeastern city of Maiduguri. Nine bombers and two civilians were killed, according to witnesses, soldiers and police. The United Nations said the attackers targeted refugees in the city…
The Nigeria Customs Service Eastern Marine Command Port Harcourt and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps [NSCDC] are to synergise for effective performance in the discharge of their duties in the state. This synergy followed the courtesy call by the new commandant of the NSCDC Mohammed Haruna to the Comptroller Eastern Maritime Command Usman …
The Bayelsa State Government has warned against the politicization of the Government’s decision to designate the Bayelsa palm as a grazing site for Fulani herdsmen and their cattle. Reacting to reports in the media, the Special Adviser to the Bayelsa State Governor on Security Matters, Chief (Dr.) Boma Spero-Jack noted that, the security implications of…
A former Niger Delta ex-militant leader and Head of the Bayelsa State Waterways Security Task Force, Africanus Ukparasia, also known as “General Africa”, has described as lies allegations by a female activist from the Niger Delta, Ankio Briggs, that Governor Dickson had donated 1,200 hectares of Ijaw land to Fulani herdsmen for cattle grazing. He…
Sola Jonathan in Lagos The National President of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA), Prince Olayiwola Shittu has reiterated the fact that it is an aberration for the Comptroller General (CG) of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Colonel Hameed Ali (rtd) to be the Chairman of the Board of the Service.. Shittu disclosed…
Two teenage girls, both armed with explosives vests around their bodies, were intercepted by security personnel near a mega fuel filling in Maiduguri, Borno State, while attempting to carry out an attack on the city, police said. Police spokesman, Victor Isuku, a deputy superintendent of Police who confirmed the incident, said one of the girls…
The Speaker of the Nigeria’s House of Representatives Yakubu Dogara said that successive administrations from 1999 to 2015 spent nearly N3 trillion on the power sector without recording much success. Mr. Dogara noted that within the stated period, when the Peoples Democratic Party controlled Nigeria at the centre, it was as if the more money…
Bayelsa State Governor, Henry Seriake Dickson has commended the Federal Government for the establishment of the 6th Division of the Nigerian Army in Port Harcourt, Rivers State covering four states in the Niger Delta to enhance security. A statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Daniel Iworiso-Markson on Tuesday, said the governor gave the commendation, when…
