–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Combatant men of the Nigerian Police are said to have rescued some of victims who were allegedly kidnapped by hoodlums who attacked Tungan Maje village, a community bordering the Federal Capital Territory and Niger State. A joint team…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA (North-East Bureau Chief): The village head of Mashio in Fune local government area of Yobe State, Isa Mashio has been released by his abduction, the Police said on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the freed village head has…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike SOGBOLA, North-East Bureau Chief:: A communique is expected later in the day as Governors of Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Taraba and Yobe states, making the North East Region, are meeting in Maiduguri the Borno State…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA: Eighty-five (85) persons have been arrested for drug related offences by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Borno State. The NDLEA also got two persons convicted for drug offences, the Borno State’s Commandant…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: The Special Adviser to Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, Governor of Delta State on peace building and conflict resolution, Chief Edwin Uzor JP, has urged community leaders, women and youths to take proactive actions in order…
Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: Ozoro youths, alleged to be Yahoo Boys, went on rampage in Ozoro, headquarters of Isoko North Local Government Area, Delta State, protesting over harassment, brutality and extortion by the police in the area. The youths…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)- From Mike SOGBOLA (North-East Bureau Chief): Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum has said that the war on insurgency should have been over had it not been for sabotage. The war on Boko Haram has been since 2009…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: For those who were familiar with Nigeria journalism in the late eighties and early nineties, ” Afghanistanism ” was a term used to describe the act of writing glowingly about the troubles abroad, while ignoring…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Minority Caucus of the House of Representatives is alarmed by Thursday attack on the convoy of the Governor of Borno State, Baba Gana Zulum by suspected bandits, insisting that the sad incident has again reinforced the urgent…
*As Ministers Of Women Affairs, Information, NASS Members Pay Condolence visit To CAS -Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA (North-East Bureau Chief): The remains of late Flying Officer Tolulope Arotile, the Nigerian Air Force’s (NAF’s) first female combat helicopter pilot, who…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA/North East Editor The United Nations Air Services have been suspended in the troubled North East. This followed an attack on one of it’s helicopters in Damasak, Borno State by terrorist group. The helicopter had hoped…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –Our Correspondent: Borno State Government said about N132 million is expended monthly on members of Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF), hunters and vigilantes from the local government fund to secure the state from Boko Haram. The state said…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike SOGBOLA (North-East Bureau Editor): The Managing Director, Chàd Basin Development Authority (CBDA), Engr. Abba Garba has lamented that Boko Haram insurgency in the Northeast displaced no fewer than 10,000 farmers within the Chad Basin. Garba…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –Mike SOGBOLA, Maiduguri: United Nations has condemned Saturday’s attacked by terrorists group on parts of Borno State. A statement by the Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Mr Edward Kallon, said the action of the group is vehemently condemned, It…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA (North-East Bureau): “Boko Haram terrorists pretended to us as Islamic religious crusaders, collected our arms and shot at both young and old, human and livestock at point blank”, the persons left unscathed told the Borno…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike SOGBOLA ((North East Bureau Editor): Boko Haram visited fury on a Borno village for allegedly sharing information about them to the military. In the reign of terror, the insurgents killed over 70 people at a…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Albert OGRAKA: Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, FCNA, CrFA, has applauded His Excellency, Senator (Dr.) Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa for initiating the process for the setting…
Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): –By Austen AKHAGBEME: It was Joseph Conrad’s Novella, titled: HEART OF DARKNESS , that first arose my innocent and uncultivated mind to the ills of colonialism and the average white man’s perception of the black man, shortly before…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): PRESS RELEASE LT GEN TY BURATAI VISITS HEADQUARTERS NIGERIAN ARMY ARMOURED CORPS, NIGERIAN ARMY ARMOUR *SCHOOL & 33 ARTILLERY BRIGADE INSPECTS *MILITARY *HARDWARE* RENOVATION WORKS IN 33 BRIGADE SHADAWANKA BARRACKS BAUCHI The Nigerian Army Chief, Lt Gen TY…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): From Mike SOGBOLA, North East Correspondent: The Chief of Army Staff (COAS) , Lt . Gen. Tukur Buratai has said that Nigerian troops withstood the rigour of Lent and Ramadan to inflict major defeats of Boko Haram, killing…
-From Sunny A. DAVID (South-East Bureau Editor) Indigenes of Abba Community in Njikoka LGA of Anambra State have lamented the incessant attacks and wanton destruction of properties in their community by people believed to be from the neighbouring Ukpo Community. Our correspondent…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): NAF DEPLOYS SPECIAL FORCES ELEMENTS, ADDITIONAL PLATFORMS TO BOOST ONGOING OPERATIONS IN KATSINA In furtherance of President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive on the launch of a major crackdown against bandits, kidnappers and other criminal elements in Katsina and other States…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Our Crime Correspondent: A man has been arrested in Yobe State for defiling a-18 month old baby girl. A statement on Thursday by ASP Dungus Abdulkarim, the Public Relations Officer, Yobe State Police Command said: “During…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Five persons were killed in the convoy of former governor of Borno State, Sen. Ali Sheriff along Maiduguri-Damaturu highway, a security source has revealed. The source, who spoke anonymously to our correspondent, said the Boko Haram attacked the…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Abubakar TSAV: The world is replete with very many tinges of experiences. A man’s bad deeds lives long after his demise, but his good deeds are interred with his bones. President Muhammadu Buhari accepted the burden of…
**Ikpokpko, Bashorun Askia, Chief Etaluku, High Chief Amadhe, Sir Eto, Brig. Gen. Omu (Rtd), Prince Ewenede, CSP. Mohammed, Archbishop Apena, Bishop Oyede, Others Attend Peace Parley… –Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Michael EKOKORUWE: There is time for everything, time of war, time…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): From Mike Sogbola, North East Correspondent: “At Present, there is serious crack and fierce acrimony and conflict of interest as well as infighting and battle of supremacy in the terrorists’ camps, – a development that if utilized by…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): From Mike Sogbola, North East Correspondent: Governors of the North East have directed Attorney Generals of the region to design modalities of improving security within the region. This was part of the resolutions reached at the end of…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike Sagbola (North-East Correspondent): The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar on Sunday said those insurgents that came to attack Garkida will never be around to lift their arms against the nation again. Abubakar…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike SOGBOLA (North-East Correspondent): The Nigerian Army on Wednesday handed over to Borno State Government 25 members of the terrorist group, Boko Haram, who allegedly denounced the organisation and surrendered to constituted authorities. The Army gave…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Our Correspondents: A Corporal of the Nigerian Army serving at the Theatre Command Operation LAFIYA DOLE, went berserk in the early hours of Wednesday, 26 February 2020 and opened fire killing four of his colleagues before…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike SOGBOLA (South East Correspondent): The Nigerian Air Force (NAF), through the Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation LAFIYA DOLE, has destroyed some Boko Haram Terrorist (BHT) structures and logistics facilities at Garin Maloma and…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike SOGBOLA (South East Correspondent): The Governor of Ebonyi State and Chairman South East Governors’ Forum Chief David Umahi, has acknowledged the contributions of the Nigerian Army in the settlement of land border disputes and bloody…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Michael EKOKORUWE: The women of Uzere kingdom, Isoko South local government area of Delta State, have protested peacefully to the local government council over renewed kingship tussle by supporters of the traditional rulers of Uzere kingdom as…
Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – Mike SOGBOLA: Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum has said that the nation might need about 100,000 more soldiers to win the war against Boko Haram. He advised that at least 50,000 people from Borno should be…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): From Mike SOGBOLA, North East Correspondent: Sport Festival is currently being organized by African Missions Global (AMG) among internally displaced persons (IDPs) camps in Maiduguri, the birth place of Boko Haram. The Festival, which commenced on Tuesday at…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: The public protest, demonstration and outcry of some prominent Christian Religious group yesterday, brought to the front burner, once again, the demoralizing state of insecurity in the nation and the resultant insensitivity of government to…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike Sagbola (North-East Correspondent): Ruthless and notorious terrorists operating in Nigeria’s North-East, code-named “Boko Haram” have slaughtered two persons sleeping overnight at a military checkpoint in Maiduguri. The insurgents, according to source, also carted away some…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike Sagbola (North-East Correspondent): Four persons were said to have died during a suicide attack on a mosque in Gwoza, southern Borno. Gwoza was at the peak of ongoing Boko Haram insurgency, the administrative capital of…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike Sagbola (North-East Correspondent): The military has again sealed off another office of an international non governmental organisation in the Northeast. It was learnt that soldiers invaded the Borno office of Adventist Development and Relief Agency…
