But what this creates is a catch-22 situation whereby Jonathan, if seen to have been hounded out of power on account of this insurgency, would create a fresh life for another form of militancy, south of the Niger. The report would conclude that bad as things are today, Nigeria can ill-afford a country that may become discombobulate because of an insurgency from the North and fresh militancy affecting Nigeria’s crude production in the south.

“Already, our troops are smoking the terrorists out of their hiding places.

“For instance, one of their hideouts in Darazo, Bauchi State, has been bombed repeatedly and they are now on the run.

“The support we are also receiving from our foreign partners has upped the tempo and we are confident that soon, very soon, the parents would have their children back and, by God’s grace, in safe and sound health.

“We are closing-in on them. But there is a limit to what I can volunteer”.

United states of America, USA, and Mexico are countries that border one another. Yet, their evolution as nations set them apart with the former far more prosperous. These excepts from ‘Why Nations Fail’ should be a reminder to Nigerian politicians who see 2015 as a do-or -die matter.

On May 4, 2014, Abubakar Shekau, the leader Boko Haram, proclaimed: “I am going to marry out any woman who is twelve years old, and if she is younger, I will marry her out at the age of nine. I am the one who captured all those girls and will sell all of them. Slavery is allowed in my religion and I shall capture people and make them slaves. We are on our way to Abuja and we shall also visit the South

EVANGELIST Matthew Owojaiye, penultimate week, released a list of 180 girls among those taken away by Boko Haram from the Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State on April 14.

The radical preacher was in Lagos where he spoke to journalists on the controversy that trailed the list of the 180 students, and how he came about it when the Federal Government is asking the affected parents to assist security operatives with the pictures of their missing children.

*Fact-finding Committee tackles  abduction assignment Mr Kingsley Osadolor, member/ spokesperson for the Presidential Fact-pfinding Committee on the Chibok abduction, speaks on the body’s job. On May 2, the day after the second Nyanya bombing in the Federal CapitalTerritory, President Goodluck Jonathan summoned a top-level security meeting at the Presidential Villa. By then, the world was abuzz […]

If they do, good for us, because these European countries have lots of experience in fighting insurgency. But we believe that the matter wouldn’t have gotten this far, if government from the beginning had focus on the matter rather than alleging the opposition as the cause of it.

The havoc visit ed on the nation by Boko Haram was laid bare by President Goodluck Jonathan who, yesterday, claimed that the Islamist group’s insurgency in Nigeria had claimed over 12,000 lives.

*’Why it is difficult to access Sambisa forest’ Hon Kaka Kyari Gujbawu, a member of the House of Representatives, represents Maiduguri Federal Constituency, Borno State. In this interview, he speaks on the move to extend the state of emergency in the troubled states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe. By Emman Ovuakporie There is a fresh […]

BY IKENNA ASOMBA Lagos State governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2011 election and former Director-General of the Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dr. Ade Dosunmu,  in this interview, says there is nothing wrong if international friends offer to help Nigeria  contain Boko-Haram insurgency, stating that his party has […]

Events in the country are moving in rapid succession as if they are shifting sands. Ever since the Boko Haram sect decided to wage war against the state and its people, particularly, Christians, who Abubakar Shekau, the sect leader, refers to as enemies of Allah, the nation has been cowering in fear and intimidation, principally handing over its fate to God

“Boko Haram should be eliminated at the maximum of three months”.

With these words, northern governors expressed their expectation from the Federal Government and the international community that the insurgency spearheaded by the Boko Haram Islamist group should end within three months.

They made about $70million (about N11 billion) between 2006 and 2011. That was what members of the Jama’atu Ahliss-Sunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad, popularly known as Boko Haram, harnessed. This revelation was made last week by a retired American military personnel of Nigerian descent, Major Chris Moghalu, on national television.

Sambisa is a vast area of land located south of Borno State. The thick forest area with swampy condition during rainy season is believed to be harbouring make shift- camps of suspected members of Boko Haram Islamists.

Assemblies of God Church Nigeria General Superintendent, Rev. Paul Emeka, suspended over allegations of misconduct, financial misappropriation and other matters by a group in the church, in this interview, fires back at his accusers, saying his only offence was that he tried to protect the church. The embattled Rev. Emeka was reinstated by a court order but denied access to his office