They have launched co-ordinated attacks across northern Nigeria, threatening to overthrow the government and impose strict Islamic law – but who exactly are the Nigerian Taliban? Since the group emerged in 2004 they have become known as “Taliban”, although they … read more
The bloody clash between the police and members of an Islamic fundamentalist group known as Boko Haram (“education is sin”), which left many dead in the early hours of Sunday in Bauchi, has spread to other states in the North. … read more
A least four persons, including a toddler, had been shot dead, in renewed inter-cult clash which started late last week and stretched till this week between Icelanders and Greenlanders. The clash tore the peace of Port Harcourt, leading to the … read more
About 70 per cent of Nigeria’s internet capacity has been disrupted following a reported damage on one of the landing cables of the SAT3 submarine cable system This distruption has since caused “temporary setback” to the nation’s data market. The … read more
The Federal Government has moved to deny reports that it planned to relocate the Petroleum University from Effurun, near Warri in Delta State, to Kaduna State. The reported plan had sparked off controversy, with South-South governors reacting with a threat … read more
More than 50 Nigerians were killed on Sunday in clashes between security forces and militants in the northeastern city of Bauchi, residents and hospital sources said. The fighting began early on Sunday when around 70 militants armed with guns and … read more
Leader of the radical Islamic sect opposed to western education, Ustaz Mohammed Yusuf, yesterday told Daily Trust that his group would not take kindly to the killing of dozens of its supporters in Bauchi. Yusuf, who spoke to our reporter … read more
Henry Okah, freed by the government recently, has met key militant leaders in Nigeria ‘s Niger Delta as he seeks to help the peace process, one of his lawyers said yesterday. Speaking to Dow Jones Newswires over the phone, Wilson … read more
THE people of the South-South have been advised to support the governors of the region in their quest to withdraw from the amnesty declaration by the Federal Government, if certain conditions are not met. Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, … read more
JEFFERY Tesler, the British pointsman in the distribution of the alleged $190 million Halliburton bribe to former Nigerian rulers and other officers is said to have shortchanged them to the tune of $30 million. The British lawyer, Sunday Vanguard gathered, … read more