The Defence Headquarters today announced that troops deployed in the on-going war between security forces and insurgents have arrested 65 persons suspected to be Boko Haram members fleeing some camps under military bombardment. A statement by the DHQ and signed by the Director of Defence Information, Brig.Gen. Chris Olukolade said some vehicles and tricycles were also recovered from the suspects. The statem ...

The Joint Task Force coordinated by the military today imposed a 24- hour curfew in major parts of Maiduguri, the troubled Borno state capital as part of efforts to tighten the noose on Boko Haram islamist insurgents still operating within the city.  JTF spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa who announced the curfew  through a statement released in Maiduguri said the decision is to allow the military sus ...

Pro-North socio-political group, Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has described as unacceptable Tuesday's declaration of state of emergency on Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states by President Goodluck Jonathan. The Northern leaders said the presidential action will fail because it is not a better alternative to dialogue. This ACF's position was made known in a communique issued at the end of its National Executive ...

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has urged the members of the National Assembly to carefully study the emergency rule imposed on Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states by President Goodluck Jonathan so they can see it for what it is - a sweetened bitter pill meant to hoodwink Nigerians ''Members of the federal legislature, as the true representatives of the people, must decide - purely on the basis of facts rat ...

The declaration of the state of emergency by President Jonathan Goodluck in the states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa is desperate but uncalled for. It is a fruitless exercise that will neither lead to peace nor assist in ending the violence that has bedeviled some parts of northern Nigeria. It is an admission of failure on the side of the government to fashion out ways of addressing or tackling the root causes ...

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has described the declaration of a state of emergency in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States by President Goodluck Jonathan as lacking in original thinking, and therefore asked the National Assembly to reject it. In a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said if the use of force was capable of ending the Bo ...

  A group of Northerners under the aegis of Confluence of Borno-Yobe Citizens for Justice has criticised the rumoured plan by President Jonathan to impose military rule in some states in the North after setting up amnesty committees to tackle the insurgency problem. "Purported plans by President Goodluck Jonathan to declare state of emergency in Borno and Yobe States after inaugurating different committees ...

The umbrella body of state governors, Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF has expressed its opposition to any move by the federal government to impose emergency rule in Northern states currently being afflicted by the activities of insurgents. Two opposition political parties, the ACN and the CPC have in separate statements on Sunday asked President Jonathan to resign over his inability as the country's commander ...

  Provocative! Indecent!! Abusive!!! These are the most appropriate words we can find to describe the language unfortunately employed by the Anambra State commissioner for Works, Arc Callistus Ilozumba to pollute a civilised debate on the Anambra State soapbox, dutifully flagged off by none but the founder of New Anambra State-liberated from the psychology of civil war defeat and the cave-holes of expl ...

Last week,  the security of the nation was once again put under severe test by the dreaded boko haram sect. In separate but co-ordinated attacks by the terrorist group 55 people including soldiers, policemen, prison officials and unarmed civilians were brutally  killed in Bama, Borno state. The Bama  prison was attacked leading to the illegal  release of 105 prisoners. In a similar tragic incident, a cult g ...