Boko Haram releases new video showing missing Nigerian girls wearing Islamic hijab headdress and reciting Quran under duress. boko-abducted-girlsBoko Haram released a new video today, alleging they had converted to Islam and would not be released until all militant prisoners were freed. The group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, speaks on the video obtained by AFP for 17 minutes before showing what ... Read More »
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday thanked Nigerians for their unison in support of Federal Government’s efforts to rescue abducted Government Secondary School girls in Chibok, Borno, by Boko Haram. The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr Olisa Metuh, made the commendation in a statement issued in Abuja. He said the demands of Nigerians in the past weeks had ignited ... Read More »
President Goodluck Jonathan made history on Saturday when he performed the ground breaking ceremony for the first maritime university in Africa, the Nigeria Maritime University at Okorenkoko, Warri Soith West Local Government Area of Delta State. Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan on his part has solicited the support of the Niger Delta and the rest of the country for ... Read More »
A Folker 100 belonging to IRS airlines crashed in Niger Republic on Saturday evening. Information reaching our correspondent said that the aircraft with registration number 5NSIK, which was returning from a C CHECK crashed at about 7.30pm. However, no life was lost as the two crew members who were on board survived. The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority confirmed the crash. ... Read More »
The mass kidnapping of schoolgirls in Nigeria was an “unconscionable act” of terror against the education of girls, US First Lady Michelle Obama said Saturday. Speaking in her husband’s place during President Barack Obama’s weekly Saturday morning address, Michelle Obama said that this violence “was not an isolated incident … it’s a story we see every day as girls around ... Read More »
Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has described the death of Ambassador Ralph Uwechue as a big loss to Federal Government and Delta State explaining that they would miss his sincere advise on developmental issues. Dr. Uduaghan who stated this Friday when the Federal Government delegation paid him a condolence visit in Asaba before proceeding to Ogwashi-Uku for the burial, ... Read More »
First Lady Michelle Obama is to speak out against the kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls by Islamic militants when she gives the weekly presidential address instead of her husband, the White House said Friday. White House deputy spokesman Eric Schultz said Michelle Obama would focus on the issue of the mass abductions in an address on Saturday to ... Read More »
There were indications yesterday that the 230 female students abducted by Boko Haram terrorists from the Government Girls’ Secondary School, GGSS, Chibok, Borno State, have been sited at the Sambisa Forest in Borno State, by the Special Forces of the United States Marines. The girls who were abducted on April 14, were part of the 250 students boarded at the ... Read More »
A faction loyal to the former governor of Ogun State and national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Aremo Segun Osoba has accused Amosun’s faction of squandering N750 million on the botched inauguration of his state executive council. The Secretary of the faction loyal to Chief Osoba, Chief Abimbola Awofeso stated this during a consultative meeting held within the private ... Read More »
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