Boko Haram kills 300, abducts 11 more girls in Borno Posted: 06 May 2014 04:44 PM PDT Members of the Boko Haram sect spent 12 hours wreaking havoc on defenceless Nigerians In another daring operation, members of the terrorist Islamic sect, Boko Haram, on Monday night killed... |
WATCH FULL VIDEO: 'Boko Haram menace beyond Jonathan’s govt' - Wole Soyinka tells CNN's Christine Amanpour Posted: 06 May 2014 09:19 PM PDT Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Tuesday said the government of President Goodluck Jonathan was not capable of countering the menace of the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram Watch video... |
BREAKING: Osaze, Yobo make Nigeria’s 30-man provisional squad for Brazil 2014 Posted: 06 May 2014 09:22 PM PDT The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, on Tuesday announced Nigeria's provisional 30-man list for the FIFA 2014 World Cup. The list, submitted by Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi, was read on... |
Chibok girls: Jonathan accepts US offer to deploy troops Posted: 06 May 2014 09:25 PM PDT President Goodluck Jonathan has accepted the offer made by President Barack Obama to deploy United States troops and equipment in Nigeria to assist in locating the schoolgirls abducted from... |
#BringBackOurGirls: Parents of abducted school girls go on hunger strike Posted: 06 May 2014 09:26 PM PDT The Head, Chibok Community in Abuja, Mr. Hosaih Sambido, on Tuesday said some parents of the abducted girls had embarked on hunger strike to protest against the incident. Sambido said this when a... |
Either Jonathan goes to Sambisa forest or Shekau remains at Nyanya Posted: 06 May 2014 08:30 PM PDT Beyond any thing we've ever seen in the past, Nigeria is today under the siege of terrorist insurgents. We are a besieged people. The yet unresolved abduction of nearly 250 school girls in Chibok... |
I never abused the Yorubas - Ngige Posted: 06 May 2014 06:30 PM PDT Senator Chris Ngige (Anambra Central) has debunked a report in the social media, in which he was "abusing" the Yoruba . Ngige was quoted online as saying: "Yoruba people are wicked. I would never... |
Chibok Schoolgirls: Nigeria deploys ‘two special battalions’ for search – Okupe Posted: 06 May 2014 05:08 PM PDT In what can be described as the first major information on the efforts put in place to rescue the over 200 girls abducted from their secondary school in Borno State, a presidential aide, Doyin Okupe,... |
Nigeria kidnappings ‘outrageous, heartbreaking, says Obama Posted: 06 May 2014 04:57 PM PDT US President Barack Obama branded the kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria by suspected Boko Haram Islamists "heartbreaking" and "outrageous" and called for an international... |
US sends team to locate abducted Nigerian schoolgirls Posted: 06 May 2014 04:55 PM PDT The United States offered Tuesday to send a team of experts to Nigeria to help find 200 kidnapped schoolgirls amid a wave of outrage over their abduction. US Secretary of State John Kerry made the... |
Again, suspected Boko Haram members kidnap 8 teenage girls in Borno Posted: 06 May 2014 02:44 PM PDT No fewer than 8 teenage girls between the ages of 12 to 15 have been abducted by suspected Boko Haram terrorists in Warabe village of Gwoza Local government area of Borno state. The gunmen also... |
Police parade medical doctor for selling babies in Anambra Posted: 06 May 2014 04:24 PM PDT A medical doctor and owner of Nkemefuna Hospital, Umunachi in Dunukofia Local Government Area of Anambra State, Dr. Daniel Ikebuilo, was paraded Tuesday, by the state police command over alleged sale... |
Fashola threatens to sanction churches, mosques over noise pollution Posted: 06 May 2014 04:20 PM PDT The Lagos State Government on Tuesday threatened to sanction any church or mosque found disturbing public peace with noise from their loud speakers. The Commissioner for the Environment, Mr Tunji... |
Panic in Abuja, as suspected Boko Haram members allegedly kidnap Nyanya school students Posted: 06 May 2014 02:58 PM PDT There was panic in communities on the outskirt of Abuja on Tuesday morning amidst reports that some students were kidnapped from a school in Nyanya. Nyanya is the community where two recent,... |
Fire guts Lagos Mosque Posted: 06 May 2014 04:11 PM PDT A Mosque at Marina car park on Lagos Island popularly known as Idera Oluwa mosque has been razed by fire. The incident occurred on May 2 at about 1.30am, burning properties worth millions of... |
IN PICTURES: #BringBackOurGirls protest in London Posted: 06 May 2014 11:52 AM PDT Photo Credits: Michael Tubes |
#BringBackOurGirls protest in US Posted: 06 May 2014 11:37 AM PDT Some 200 protesters gathered Tuesday outside the Nigerian embassy in Washington to demand the country take robust action to rescue more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist militants. Chanting... |
Drama as Bash Ali paralyses activities at NEXIM bank Posted: 06 May 2014 02:42 PM PDT There was mild drama on Tuesday at the headquarters of the Nigerian Export-Import Bank as Nigeria's boxing champion, Bash Ali and his supporters barricaded the bank. Ali, who stormed the bank with... |
BOKO HARAM AND THE CHIBOK AFFAIR: The Emerging and uncomfortable facts - Fani-Kayode Posted: 06 May 2014 10:56 AM PDT Now that the operational leadership and visible face of Boko Haram, in the person of the filth called Mr. Abubakar Shekau (aka Darul Tawheed), has finally admitted that they were responsible for the... |
#BringBackOurGirls: First Lady’s intervention distracting, counter-productive – APC Posted: 06 May 2014 10:35 AM PDT The All Progressives Congress (APC) has decried the melodramatic intervention of First Lady Dame Patience Jonathan in the abduction of over 200 school girls as distracting, counter-productive and... |
Nigeria kidnappings ‘unthinkable cruelty’ - Angelina Jolie Posted: 06 May 2014 09:09 AM PDT US actress Angelina Jolie on Tuesday condemned as "unthinkable cruelty and evil" the kidnapping of over 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria by Boko Haram Islamists. The star was speaking in Paris about the... |
Gunmen demand N20m ransom for release of kidnapped Dutch nationals Posted: 06 May 2014 08:56 AM PDT One of the kidnappers of the three Dutch nationals, weekend, in Lutugbene, Ekeremor Local Government Area, Bayelsa State, has allegedly been shot dead by suspected pirates just as the... |
Boko Haram video confirms our fear— Parents Posted: 06 May 2014 08:16 AM PDT Nigerian parents on Tuesday said their worst fears about their daughters' fates had been confirmed after Boko Haram, which kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls last month, threatened to sell the... |
'Nigeria becoming world’s laughing stock' Posted: 06 May 2014 08:12 AM PDT A former Minister of Communication and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Audu Ogbeh, has said Nigeria is fast becoming a laughing stock among other nations in the world because of... |
JUNGLE JUSTICE: Angry Youths set ‘lunatic’ turned kidnapper ablaze in Ondo Posted: 06 May 2014 07:03 AM PDT A middle aged woman, who pretended to be a lunatic, has been set ablaze for attempting to kidnap a seven-year-old primary school pupil in Ondo town, Ondo State, yesterday. The "lunatic," according... |
Omisore threatens to sue Aregbesola for calling him ex-convict Posted: 06 May 2014 06:33 AM PDT Peoples' Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate in the August 9 election in Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore, yesterday threatened to drag Governor Rauf Aregbesola to court over a statement... |
Man dies during marathon sex with female student at Ebonyi varsity girls’ hostel Posted: 06 May 2014 06:22 AM PDT A middle aged man (names withheld), yesterday, died in Abakaliki while having marathon sex with a female student of Ebonyi State University, EBSU, Abakaliki. The incident, it was gathered, happened... |
Niger Delta gunmen free two Nigerian hostages, hold on to foreigners Posted: 06 May 2014 06:00 AM PDT Niger Delta gunmen have released two Nigerians they kidnapped two days ago, but kept three Dutch nationals who were abducted at the same time, one of those freed tweeted on Tuesday. Environmental... |
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