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President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed disappointment in Nigeria’s intelligence following the attacks on Kuje prison by suspected Boko-Haram terrorists. The sect, in their numbers, stormed the medium-security prison on Tuesday night with high explosives and successfully released their co-conspirators along with over 600 other inmates. A casualty has been recorded on the part of the security operatives while four dead bodies of ...

By Raymond Ozoji, Awka The Anambra State Association of Town Unions (ASATU) has commended Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo for his war against terrorists operating from forests across the state, saying that the governor is determined to reclaim the forests from terrorists masquerading as agitators. National President of ASATU Chief Barr. Titus Nnabuike Akpudo who issued a congratulatory message in Awka ...

The majority leader of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Oluwole Ogunmolasuyi, has said that Sunday’s attack at St Francis Catholic Church, Owo, affected about 100 persons. Mr Ogunmolasuyi, the lawmaker representing Owo Constituency 1, said he visited the church and hospital to see the victims. “It’s a very sad incident. Of course, it had already happened before I got there. I ...

By Christian Aburime Anambra State Governor, Prof Chukwuma Charles Soludo, has commiserated with the family of Dr Chinelo Megafu Nwando and the Nigerian Medical Association over the unfortunate death of Dr Chinelo Nwando who lost her life with other Nigerians in the deadly Abuja-Kaduna train attack by terrorists last Monday. Dr Chinelo Megafu Nwando reportedly lost her life from injuries ...

The Department of State Services (DSS) has raised the alarm over plans by terrorists to attack military bases in border towns across the country. The secret agency also put the Nigeria Customs Service on red alert to avert the pending attacks by the insurgents on Ogun border communities and other border towns across the country, noting that the warning was based ...

A Second Republic Senator and a renowned Historian, Prof. Banji Akintoye, has alerted governors in the South-West that the entire region has already been surrounded by terrorists. Akintoye, who is the leader of Ilana Omo Oodua, the umbrella body for Yoruba self-determination groups, informed the governors in a letter written to them that the terrorists were ready to strike any ...

A group, under the aegis of Apapo Oodua Koya, yesterday, advised governors of Ogun, Oyo and Ondo states to put measures in place to stop terrorists allegedly planning to kidnap school children in their states. But the Chairman of the South-West Governors’ Forum, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, said enough measures have been put in place to curb the excesses of criminals ...

By Casmir Igbokwe Nigeria is a conundrum. It is a country where white can be called black, where leaders promise citizens fish but give them scorpions, where terrorists are pampered and given amnesty and peaceful protesters declared terrorists. Events of the past few days have confirmed beyond reasonable doubts that our redemption is far. Or how do you explain that, a ...

It is an attempt to intimidate state panels of inquiry, alleges Ozekhome FG insincere, pretentious, says NBA The Federal Government came under fire on Wednesday for tagging of #EndSARS campaigners as terrorists with prominent citizens and groups deploring the Central Bank of Nigeria’s action, which led to the freezing of the accounts of some of the campaigners. The Federal Government ...