WITH memories of the forceful eviction of Maroko residents 20 years ago by the then Colonel Raji Rasaki military administration still fresh in the minds of many people, a similar episode was re-enacted last week with residents of Adekunle, Makoko, Yaba area on the receiving end.

SECURITY was tightened at state and federal secretariats, yesterday, as workers resumed for work after the holidays that were marred by blasts on Christmas Eve which claimed 80 lives and more than 176 injured This is just as suspected members of an Islamic sect, ‘Boko Haram’ struck again in Maiduguri, Borno State capital killing three persons including a retired senior police officer.

Thousands of residents of Yenagoa who thronged the campaign rally of Beimo Rufus-Spiff, a governorship aspirant under the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Wednesday narrowly escaped death when two deafening explosions rocked the venue of the rally at Opolo Community Secondary School ground.

OUTRAGED by the claim of a terrorist group that claimed responsiblity for the Jos mayhem, the Nigerian Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, headed by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, the Council of Ulama in Jos, the Ja’amatu Nasril Islam, JNI, and other Islamic groups in the country, yesterday, dismissed the group’s claim insisting that it was not only faceless but lacked any iota of credibility.

LAGOS—THE group that claimed responsibility for the Jos mayhem which claimed over 80 lives fueled its claim, yesterday, by posting a video clip on the internet showing its spokesman justifying why they struck in Jos. Online publication, Saharareporters on its site showed the video of the group’s spokesman reading from an Arabic text which was […]

A FRESH attempt to bomb some parts of Jos was foiled, yesterday, after the Special Task Force which is maintaining security in Jos intercepted a group of people who were trying to plant an explosive in Nasarawa Gwom area even as the death toll in the Christmas Eve multiple bomb explosions has risen to 80

BARELY a week after 20 persons were roasted to death at Asaba along Benin-Asaba highway, a similar motor accident has occurred at Emuhu village near Umunede on the same highway. This time it claimed no fewer than 22 lives including university students.

Disability is not a sickness, I am not ashamed to sit on this wheelchair to address this great audience. Nigerians should not relegate us to the background because persons with disabilities can live a productive life. Parents should not abandon children with disabilities because there is hope for them.’‘

THERE was palpable tension in the Plateau State capital, yesterday, as angry youths carried out reprisal attacks in some parts of Jos setting houses ablaze and molesting people over the Christmas eve blasts in two locations which claimed 32 lives and hospitalisation of 74 others.

PRESIDENTIAL aspirant of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), says his party has an elaborate plan to construct mini-power stations across the country targeting abundant coal deposits in Enugu, Benue, Kogi and other parts of the country.