How The Nigerian Government Made Boko Haram Richer - Bishop Kukah

Bishop Matthew Kukah

The Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Matthew Kukah, has alleged that the Nigerian government has made members of the Boko Haram insurgents richer through ransom.

US Homeland Security To Compile Global Database of Bloggers, Social Media Influencers

The United States Department of Homeland Security has put out a call for companies that could create a database tracking over 290,000 "media influencers" around the world, including online news outlets, bloggers and prominent social network accounts.

Pervasive Insecurity in Nigeria: 308 Killed in 1 Month

The global human rights body, Amnesty International recently raised alarm with the revelation that clashes between farmers and herdsmen in parts of the country have claimed at least 168 lives in 2018 alone, not a few Nigerians were left in awe and shock.

Nigeria Moves To Prevent Boko Haram Access To Nuclear Weapons

The Nigerian government has declared that it is working to prevent Boko Haram insurgents from accessing nuclear weapons.

Pervasive Violence In Nigeria Entails The Military Usurps Police Roles

Nigerian Soldiers at a Check Point

It’s a common scene along Nigeria’s main roads -- barriers stopping cars, machine-gunners poised behind sandbags and stern-looking soldiers checking vehicle trunks and scrutinizing the faces of passengers.

Nigeria’s Troubling Counter Insurgency Strategy Against Boko Haram

The kidnapping of 110 schoolgirls from Dapchi last month is the latest event to cast doubt on the Nigerian government’s claims that Boko Haram has been technically defeated. Unfortunately, the attack should have come as no surprise. Since 2015, the jihadist group has lost significant territorial control and no longer holds major cities. But as I saw during my fieldwork in Nigeria in January, the jihadist threat is far from gone, and counterinsurgency policies continue to be troubled and troubling.

Nigerian Govt treated IPOB unjustly – Cardinal Onaiyekan

Mr. Nnamdi Kanu

The Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, yesterday decried how the Federal government handled the issue of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), lamenting that injustice was meted out on them.

The Increasingly Fragile, Ungoverned Spaces in Nigeria

Quote: “The peace in [Taraba] state is under assault. There is an attempt at ethnic cleansing in this state and, of course, in all the riverine state of Nigeria. We must resist it. We must stop it. Every one of us must rise up. The armed forces are not neutral; they collude with the armed bandits that kill people, kill Nigerians. They facilitate their movement. They cover them. If you are depending on the Armed Forces to stop the killings, you will all die one by one. The ethnic cleansing must stop in Taraba State, it must stop in all the states of Nigeria; otherwise Somalia will be a child’s play.”

-         Lt. General Theophilus Danjuma (Rtd)

Nigeria’s Former Chief of Army Staff & Minister of Defence,

Saturday, March 24, 2018

BREAKING! Buhari Offers Unconditional Amnesty To ''Repentant' Boko Haram Members

The President observed that Nigeria has suffered untold hardships resulting from the activities of the insurgents. He further said government ” will reintegrate them back to the society if they are willing to lay down their arms.”

How The U.S, Facebook And Big Data Can Swing Nigeria’s 2019 Elections (Concluded)

This essay is the second and concluding tranche of my piece titled, ''How The U.S, Facebook And Big Data Can Swing Nigeria’s 2019 Elections''. Read the Part 1 of the essay here if you are yet to.

Bandits Reportedly Kill 11 Soldiers in Kaduna, Northwest Nigeria

Guardian Newspaper reports that armed bandits, believed to be herdsmen yesterday, stormed a military camp in Doka community in Birni Gwari local government of Kaduna State where they opened fire on the soldiers who were sleeping, killing 11 in the process.

Gunmen Kidnap Aged Mother of A Business Tycoon In Abia State, SE Nigeria

Gunmen on Sunday kidnapped an aged woman reported to be the mother of a communication giant and Chief Executive Officer of SLOT, Mr. Nnamdi Ezeigbo, at Ubakala, Umuahia south local government area of Abia state.

Pirates Attack Another Ship in Bonny, Off Nigeria Coast

Pirates armed with guns boarded a product tanker approaching the Bonny Fairway Buoy on March 6, 2018, according to the International Maritime Bureau Piracy Reporting Centre (IMB-PRC). 

Security Alert! Boko Haram Planning To Attack Maiduguri With Car Bombs – Police

The police in Borno on Thursday issued an alert warning residents of an impending attack by Boko Haram using vehicles loaded with Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Devices, VBIEDs.

Rampaging Herdsmen Attacks: Food Security Threatened In Nigeria - Ex-Naval Chief

A former Chief of Naval Staff, Vice-Admiral Samuel Afolayan, has warned that the efforts of the federal and state governments to ensure national food sufficiency, employment generation, industrialisation and diversification of the economy may become fruitless if the menace of destruction of farmlands and attack on farmers by herdsmen is not curtailed.