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WARY of the security challenge in the country, former Defence Minister, General Theophilous Danjuma, Saturday described the north as being in the middle of a civil war declared by the Boko Haram religious sect. Danjuma spoke at the launch of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria’s N50bn Phase 11 Development project, where former Military President, Ibrahim...
The explosion happened in Borno State, North Eastern Nigeria. An Improvised Explosive Device, IED, set close to the busy Gamboru market on Friday led to the death of two persons suspected to be couriers of the device, while several houses were razed by the explosion. A statement from the spokesperson of the Joint Task Force, JTF, in Maiduguri, Sagir Musa,...
DENVER (Reuters) – A man shot and killed three people in a home in Colorado on Tuesday before turning the handgun on himself and committing suicide, authorities said. Sergeant Tim Schwartz of the Weld County Sheriff’s Office said police received a call from the home in a community about 35 miles north of Denver before dawn and heard a female voice...
Kano – Loud explosions and gunfire on Monday evening rocked Nigeria’s restive northern city of Maiduguri where unknown gunmen earlier in the day shot dead a traffic warden, residents and journalists said. More than a dozen loud explosions were heard in the Gomari-Costain district of the city. Gomari primary school as well as a telecommunications...
North ‘ll Cause Another Civil War – Asari BY John Bulus ABUJA—Former President of Ijaw Youth Congress, IYC, and leader of Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, NDPVF, Alhaji Dokubo Asari, has said that those scheming to remove President Goodluck Jonathan from office were fanning the embers of war in Nigeria. He also accused Northern leaders of creating...
We have received confirmation that thousands of Igbo youths and other Southern Christians were mobilized by National Youth Service Corps for primary assignments in the conflict endemic areas of Northern Nigeria. We hereby state as follows: 1. It is heartless and insensitive to post Igbo and christian graduates to the North in disregard of the current security...
