CAN Vs NSCIA: Is Boko Haram succeeding in tearing Nigeria apart?
Last Sunday’s nationwide protests by the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, against the senseless murder of its members by terrorists in the northern part of Nigeria, drove home one salient lesson: We have reached a dangerous point in the history of Nigeria where life amounts to nothing in the hands of murderous gangs terrorizing the land in the name of religion.
NAF Launches Operation Rattle Snake 3, bombs Boko Haram hideout in Borno
By Kingsley Omonobi The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) said on Wednesday that its Air Task Force (ATF), Operation Lafiya Dole, has launched Operation Rattle Snake 3 against terrorists’ elements in the Northeast of the Country. The Air Interdiction Operation, which commenced Tuesday, 4 February 2020, will target selected locations within the Northeast in order to […]
US announces additional $40m aid to Nigeria
The United States has announced an additional 40-million-dollar (N14 billion) aid to Nigeria to address the humanitarian crisis arising from decades of the Boko Haram insurgency. The Secretary of State, Mr Mike Pompeo, who made the announcement in Washington DC on Tuesday, said this was in addition to nearly 350 million dollars (N122.5 billion) in […]
Insecurity: Presidency salutes CAN over peaceful protest
Presidency says the recent protest by the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) over security situations represent the peaceful right of all Nigerians to express their views on matters of religion, ethics, politics and society. The President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, made this assertion in a statement in Abuja on […]
ISWAP members kill three soldiers, seize two military vehicles in Borno
Islamic State-affiliated jihadists have killed three Nigerian soldiers and seized two military vehicles in an attack in Askira, northeastern Borno state, security sources and residents said Monday. Fighters from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), stormed into the town of Askira late Friday in a dozen pickup trucks fitted with machine guns, leading to […]
INSECURITY: Okogie blasts praise singers
WITH heightening insecurity in Nigeria which has attracted the attention of the National Assembly and has necessitated the Donald Trump US administration to clamp down on immigration visa seekers, the Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of Lagos, Anthony Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie Tuesday joined an army of patriotic Nigerians to question the competence of the current service chiefs.
