President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday formally inaugurated the Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution of Security Challenges in the North with a promise to support the panel and other [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York The All Nigeria Peoples Party [ANPP] has described as “a deep cut in the soul of the nation” last Friday’s killing of about 185 civilians in [...]
Residents of Baga in Kukawa Local Government area of Borno,where about 200 persons were reportedly killed in a deadly confrontation between the Boko Haram sect and soldiers of the Multinational [...]
In response to the clash between operatives of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MJTF) and members of radical sect, Boko Haram in Baga, Borno state in which many lives and [...]
President Goodluck Jonathan, Wednesday enjoined members of the newly inaugurated Presidential Committee on the proposed amnesty for the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, to come up with meaningful ideas that will [...]
The Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination may not hold in troubled Northern states on Saturday, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board said on Wednesday. Addressing Journalists in Abuja, the JAMB Registrar/Chief [...]
President Goodluck Jonathan inaugurated the presidential committee on peaceful resolution of security challenges in the northern part of Nigeria on Wednesday in Abuja. He mandated it to proffer solutions to [...]
President Goodluck Jonathan has charged members of the Presidential Committee on engagement with members of the Boko Haram Sect to come up with solutions that will restore peace in the [...]
President Goodluck Jonathan has charged members of the Presidential Committee on engagement with members of the Boko Haram Sect to come up with solutions that will restore peace in the [...]
President Goodluck Jonathan has called on security agencies to be mindful of the citizens of the country while carrying out their assignments reassuring that the federal government will take steps [...]
by Alkassim Abdulkadir Goodluck Jonathan as the Commander-In-Chief must ensure Baga goes beyond just an investigation, any wrong doing should be tried along the sterling traditions of the Nigerian army. [...]
President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday formally inaugurated the Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution on Security Challenges in the North with a promise to support the panel and other [...]
The Northern Elders Forum,NEF, Tuesday, demanded the setting up of a judicial commission of enquiry into the shootout in Baga , a boarder town in Borno State where over 180 [...]
A strategic security consultant, Max Gbanite today absolved the military of blame in the deaths that occurred in Baga Town in the northeastern state of Borno, a hub of the [...]
By Ola Audu The Nigerian military has, in less than 48 hours, released multiple but conflicting statistics on the Baga bloodshed, varying the number of the dead and date of [...]
Contrary to reports that 185 people died as a result of last weekend’s clash between the operatives of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MJTF) and members of the radical sect, [...]
Respected Catholic clergy, Anthony Cardinal Okogie, has advised the government to be cautious in its approach towards finding a panacea to the security crisis in the country by ensuring that [...]
Following a clash between Military Joint Task Force (JTF) and suspected members of Boko Haram sect in which about 185 persons were killed and over 2000 houses destroyed, Borno State [...]
Intense fighting between the military and Islamist fighters from Boko Haram in Baga, northern Nigeria, is reported to have killed at least 185… Read full story on author website »
By SaharaReporters, New York The entire township of Baga, a border town in Borno state, was razed down at the weekend as a Nigeria-led multinational force and suspected members of [...]
At least 185 people killed during fighting between Boko Haram group and troops centred on fishing community in north. Read full story on author website »
Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has flayed attempts at using the Nigerian Governors Forum as a pressure body against President Goodluck Jonathan just as he differentiated the rested agitation [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York Sheik Ahmad Gumi has again denounced the Boko Haram Islamic sect as diabolical, and called for them to be flushed out from all of Northern Nigeria, [...]
Reports reaching DailyPost from Maiduguri, the Borno state capital confirms that three staff of the West African Examination Council, WAEC were on Friday shot dead by unknown gunmen suspected to [...]
by Akan Ido In this interview with the Vanguard Newspapers, Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State talks about his party, the race for the 2015 elections, the opposition parties, Boko [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, who was nominated to serve in the proposed amnesty committee by President Goodluck Jonathan, has dispelled reports he is under pressure to serve on [...]
THE Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has frowned at utterances of the Ja’amatu Nasril Islam (JNI) that tagged CAN President, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, and his executive council as enemies of [...]
Mr. Dare Ogunlana, a security expert has said that the various insurgencies in northern Nigeria and Niger Delta have awakened the government to see the error of their ways; describing [...]
By Weekly Trust Many local governments areas in northern Borno and other parts of the state are gradually coming under the control of members of the Jama’atu Ahlis Sunnah Lid [...]
by Rachel Ogbu Photo: Punch More than 5,000 members of the Islamic sect, Boko Haram with their wives and children might benefit from the proposed Federal Government amnesty, new reports claim. Avcording to [...]
