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May 10, 2013

You Will Stand Trial, Abuja Court Tells Former House of Reps Committee Chair, Lawan Farouk

By SaharaReporters, New York Not so fast! read more Read full story on author website »

ICPC Discovers 67 Illegal Universities

By SaharaReporters, New York The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices And Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Mr. Ekpo Nta has announced the discovery of 67 illegal universities in Nigeria. [...]

How Ombatse ‘Cult’ Group Killed Over Scores Of Security Agents In Nasarawa-PREMIUM TIMES

By Sani Tukur Security leaders in Abuja were late Thursday scratching their heads, trying to make sense of how a militia group in Nasarawa State, the Ombatse, that built a [...]

Bama Police Unleash Terror On Maiduguri Hospital Over Lack Of Space For Dead Officers

By SaharaReporters, New York Sources at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH) told SaharaReporters that a contingent of police officers from the violence-ridden town of Bama created mayhem and [...]

Malcolm X’s Grandson, Responsible For Grandmother’s Death, Killed In Mexico – The Huffington Post

By Jermaine Spradley Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of civil rights icon Malcolm X, has been killed in Mexico according to The Amsterdam News. read more Read full story on author [...]

Wagbatsoma’s Fuel Subsidy Fraud Trial: Judge Warns Lawyer Olanipekun Over Ploy To Dribble Court With Trivialities

By SaharaReporters, New York The high profile trial of subsidy fraud suspect, Walter Wagbatsoma, who is accused of illegally obtaining N1.9 billion from the Petroleum Support Fund (PSF) continued today [...]

May 9, 2013

President Jonathan Initiates Probe Of AGF Mohammed Adoke

By SaharaReporters, New York President Goodluck Jonathan may have taken the first anti-corruption step of his presidency against a highly placed government official: Mohammed Bello Adoke, Minister of Justice and [...]

Unprovoked Killing of Policemen: IGP Vows To Bring Perpetrators To Book

By SaharaReporters, New York The Police High Command has condemned today’s “unprovoked and brutal” killing of scores of policemen who were on legitimate assignment in Nasarawa State.   read more [...]

Ombatse Traditionalists: Police Killed Our Nine Members Before We Killed 95 Of Them

By SaharaReporters, New York Mohammed D. Abubakar, Inspector General of Police By SaharaReporters, New York A man who admits to be an Ombatse traditional religionist in Nassarawa State has told [...]

Another Military Chopper Crashlands In Port Harcourt

By SaharaReporters, New York A military aircraft today crash-landed in Port Harcourt after it developed “an emergency,” an official of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has confirmed, butnobody aboard [...]

Professional Unions Shut Down THISDAY Over Unpaid Wages

Tomorrow, perhaps, but not today, the Nigeria Union of Journalists and the National Union of Printing, Publishing and Paper Product Workers seemed to have said this morning, halting all work [...]

Sultan-Led Council Begs Boko Haram To Embrace Amnesty

By SaharaReporters, New York The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), led by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, has appealed to the Boko Haram sect [...]

Nigeria’s Security Situation Forces President Jonathan To Cancel State Visit To Namibia

By SaharaReporters, New York President Goodluck Jonathan's visit to South Africa and Namibia has ended abruptly as the President, and his team cancelled a scheduled state visit to Namibia.  Sources [...]

2015: Neither Orubebe Nor Ochei Can Be Governor Of Delta State, Asserts Edwin Clark

By SaharaReporters, New York Prominent elder statesman and Ijaw national leader, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, has expressed opposition to the declaration by the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday [...]

Patience Jonathan Denies Involvement In Rivers Crisis

By SaharaReporters, New York First Lady Patience Jonathan has refuted reports that she is involved in the crisis in Rivers State.   In a statement today, Ayo Osinlu, her Special [...]

May 8, 2013

Deaths Reach 100 In Sudan’s Gold Mine Collapse; Lake Victoria Tree Sell-Off Protested; Idriss Deby Survives Latest Coup Attempt; Eritrean Moms and Kids Win Freedom From Israeli Jail

GOLD RUSH LEADS TO MINE COLLAPSE IN NORTH SUDAN, 100 LIVES LOST   May 7 (GIN) – Efforts to ramp up Sudan’s gold mining industry came to a disastrous halt [...]

Boko Haram Onslaught on Bama: Two Soldiers, 22 policemen, 14 Prison Warders, 13 Terrorists Killed In Military Barracks Fight With PHOTOS

By SaharaReporters, New York Military sources have told SaharaReporters that Tuesday’s unprecedented onslaught on Bama by suspected Boko Haram terrorists resulted in the death of two soldiers and 13 of [...]

May 7, 2013

Rivers State House of Assembly Accuses Jonathan Government Of Assault On Democracy

By SaharaReporters, New York The Speaker of the Rivers State House Of Assembly, Mr. Otelemaba Dan Amachree, has condemned what he called “the pettiness of centripetal forces in Governance as [...]

P-Square Star’s Paternity Dispute: “London Baby” His First Child, Says Family Source

By SaharaReporters, New York The paternity controversy between Nigerian music star and entertainer, P-2 (real name Paul Okoye), and a beauty pageant contestant and model, Elshamah Igbanoi, has taken a [...]

Militants Kill 2 Relatives of Governor Dickson’s Aide in Bayelsa As Oil Theft, kidnappings Worsen In Bayelsa, Delta States

By SaharaReporters, New York SaharaReporters has learnt that unknown gunmen struck yesterday at the coastal community of Kuroamagbene in the southern Ijaw local government area of Bayelsa, killing two persons [...]

Boko Haram Attack On Police, Army Barracks And Prison In Bama ‘The Biggest,’ Security Sources Say

By SaharaReporters, New York Today’s brazen attack on military, prison and police formations in  Bama  in Borno is perhaps the biggest yet by Boko Haram militants, security sources have said.   read more Read full story on author [...]

N4.7billion Ibori Loot Laundering Trial: Babalakin Again Absent In Court; Prayer To Kill Charges Fails

By SaharaReporters, New York Wale Babalakin, the embattled Bi-Courtney boss chiefly implicated in a monumental money laundering scheme on behalf of the former Delta State Governor, James Onanefe Ibori, failed [...]

Protesting Workers Shut Down Nigeria’s National Assembly Over Unpaid Salaries And Allowances

By SaharaReporters, New York  Legislative activity at National Assembly in Abuja today was brought  to a halt as  staff members protest illegal deductions of pension fund  from their salaries, fraudulent [...]

Soldier Attached To Presidential Aide Shoots Youth At Ijaw Youth Congress Gathering

A soldier attached to Kingsley Kuku, an aide of President Goodluck Jonathan and Chairman of Amnesty Implementation Committee on Saturday shot and injured a youth in Yenagoa, again prompting the [...]

Boko Haram Militants Hit Police And Army Formations in Bama And Bankai In Borno

By SaharaReporters, New York Boko Haram militants struck a police and army barracks today on Bama and Bankai in Bp*rno state killing several police officers and civilians. read more Read [...]

Irate Reps Deputy Leader Sends Thugs After Inquisitive Constituent

By SaharaReporters, New York SaharaReporters has learnt that thugs working for the Deputy Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Leo Ogor Okuweh, brutally beat one Linus Ezuzu for daring [...]

Answer The Question, PLAC Challenges Governor Rotimi Amaechi

By Abdul Mahmud The Public Interest Lawyers League has thrown its weight behind the action of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) in grounding the private jet of Rivers State [...]

May 6, 2013

Nigerian Military Jet Crashes In Niger, Two Dead-REUTERS

By Reuters (Reuters) – A Nigerian fighter jet taking part in military operations against al Qaeda-linked Islamic militants in Mali crashed in western Niger, killing its two crew, Niger and [...]

SSS Parades Suspect Hired By Governor Akpabio To ‘Kill’ Senator Etok

The State Security Service (SSS) today paraded a suspect, ex-militant Adelola Tamunotonye Olaore, alias "General Africa" over a plot to assassinate and extort money from Senator Aloysius Etok in Abuja. [...]

JTF Gets Killers Of Major General Shuwa; Rescues Kidnap Victims

By SaharaReporters, New York The Joint Task Force (JTF) “Operation Restore Order” in Maiduguri says it has killed or arrested almost all the suspects involved in last year’s assassination of [...]