–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike SOGBOLA: The Boko Haram crisis that have engulfed part of Nigeria’s Northeast would be explained through art, poetry, drama and music.The Borno Literary Society will on Saturday (18th January, 2020) host the first-ever performance of local…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Michael EKOKORUWE: The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in charge of Isoko South local government area, CSP Mohammed Nahala, has averted impending crisis between farmers and Fulani herdsmen at Emedel farmland Okpe – Olomoro over malicious destruction of…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike SOGBOLA: Yobe State Governor, Alhaji Mai-Mala Buni has called on security agencies to step up their game and put a stop to growing insecurity in the nation. Reacting to the attack on the convoy of Emir of…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Austen AKHAGBEME: One of the many things that makes Nigeria an amazingly impossible knot in the eye of some people, and public policy a nightmare, is the multiplicity of contrasting opinion and the plurality of emotion displayed…
Iran’s most powerful military commander, General Qasem Soleimani, has been killed by a US air strike in Iraq. The 62-year old spearheaded Iranian military operations in the Middle East as head of Iran’s elite Quds Force. He was killed at Baghdad airport,…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Delta State Government has appealed to protesting Core Area 2B Landlords Association whose property were demolished by suspected agents an Asaba-based company over ownership of lands in the area. The landlords numbering no fewer than 100 mounted…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA: The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Wednesday arraigned Hajiya Aisha Alkali Wakil, popularly known as Mama Boko Haram before a Borno High Court, Maiduguri on a-three count charge bordering on cheating and onspiracy…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA: Criticisms of Borno Governor, Prof. Babagana Umara’s recruitment of 150 Cameroonian vigilantes mere ignorance, Isa Gusau, the governor’s spokesman has hit back. A signed statement by the governor’s spokesman of Sunday, picked out Dr. Ona Ekhomu,…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA: The Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation LAFIYA DOLE has destroyed 2 Boko Haram Terrorists’ (BHTs) gun trucks and killed some fighters at Borgozo in Borno State. The Nigerian Air Force Director of Public Relations…
Update>> –Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGNOLA, Damaturu: Residents of Babbangida, in Tarmuwa local government area of Yobe State which was attacked on Wednesdays afternoon by Boko Haram, have alleged that a shot by the NAF jet on a residential quarters…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike SOGBOLA, Damaturu: Suspected members of Boko Haram on Wednesday attacked Babbangida town in Yobe State. The group launched the attack on the town in an ambulance, which they had earlier siezed from a team of…
-Blank NEWS Online NIGERIA –From Mike SOGBOLA, Maiduguri: Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara has deployed 150 Cameroonian vigilantes to flush out remnants of Boko Haram for his state. The newly engaged Cameroonians, who are also equipped for the task, are to work…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike Sogbola: Yobe Police Command on Wednesday said it won’t tolerate herders/farmers clash in the State. The warning was issued by the Yobe Commissioner of Police, Yahaya Abubakar during a meeting organized by his office with farmers and herders. …
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike Sogbola: The North-East Development Commission (NEDC) has assured the Nigerian Army (NA) of its desire and unwavering commitment to repairing roads and other critical infrastructure destroyed as a result of insurgency in North-East. Its Chairman Governing…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike Sogbola: The Nigerian Army on Tuesday formalised agreement with the Defence Industries Corporation of NIGERIA / Command Engineering Depot on mass production of 28 Mines Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles for its counter terrorism/insurgency and…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike Sogbola Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation LAFIYA DOLE has destroyed an Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) Terrorists’ hideout and neutralized some of their fighters at Arrinna Ciki on the fringes of the Lake Chad…
-Blank NEWS Online NIGERIA: FAKE OPERATION: ARMY URGES NIGERIANS TO DISREGARD BRICKS PUBLICATION ON THE PURPORTED NIGERIAN ARMY OPERATION POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION Following the widespread apprehension on the purported Nigerian Army (NA) operation positive identification from 1 November to 23 December 2019, as…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Mike Sogbola The last definitely has not be held of the barring of activities of two international non governmental agencies, Action Against Hunger and Mercy Corps, as Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), otherwise called Doctors Without…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)- From Mike Sogbola: In continuation of the sustained onslaught against terrorist elements in the Northeast of the Country, the Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation LAFIYA DOLE has neutralized several Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): –From Mike Sogbola Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Umara has dragged his commissioner and top aides to the Boko Haram “enclave” in the northern part of the state for a retreat. The northern part of the state is…
–From Mike Sogbola: The Boko Haram insurgents have set ablaze 73 houses and 28 shops in Thursday’s attack on three Borno villages, the state government revealed on Saturday. The governor of Borno State, Prof. Babagana Umara, had complained to President Muhammadu Buhari…
Delta state Governor, Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, has decried the frequent loss of lives from herdsmen attack on defenseless farmers and other Nigerians, insisting that the Federal Government must curb the menace through stringent measures. He therefore urged the Federal Government to…
-From Crime Desk: A Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in Delta State who was allegedly kidnapped at the weekend along the Benin-Asaba-Onitsha expressway has regained freedom after an alleged payment of N3 Million ransom. But the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Adeyinka Adeleke…
-From Mike Sogbola: Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara has called for prayers for those in the trenches fighting Boko Haram. This is just as his Yobe state counterpart, Alhaji Mai-Mala Buni called for prayers for improved security, unity, peace and socio-economic development…
-From Mike Sogbola: Over 60 persons were killed at a graveside in Borno State, Chairman of Nganzai local government, Muhammad Bulama, told journalists on Sunday. Bulama, lamented that the insurgents who were pushed back two weeks ago returned on a reprisal mission…
From Mike Sogbola: Suspected members of Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) have attacked a convoy of aid workers in Borno State, killing one person and believed to have abducted six others. A statement signed by Shashwat Saraf, Country Director of…
From Michael EKOKORUWE: The President General of Isoko Development Union, High Chief Iduh Amadhe and Hon. Emmanuel Egbabor, Chairman Isoko North local government area, has averted Oyede community traditional monarchy crisis at Oyede, Isoko North local government area of Delta state. Anonymous…
Operation of the soldiers in 19 Battalion, Koko, Delta State of Nigeria against illegal oil bunkering has began to yield tremendous result says the military. In particular, incessant oil bunkery activities within Benin river along Abide community, an area our source described…
-From Blank NEWS Online Education Desk Delta State Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Chief Patrick Ukah, has called on community vigilantes to partner with the state government in securing school facilities against vandals in public schools in the state. The commissioner…
FROM SUNNY A. DAVID / AWKA South-East Governors have denied allocating any portion of land in the region for the Ruga Fulani herdsmen settlement, even as they promised to tolerate herdsmen who carry out peaceful trade. In a statement signed by the…
Delta State Governor Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa has said that the perpetuators of the ritual murder of Elozino Ogege, must be brought to justice. Speaking on Thursday, June 27, 2019 in Asaba during the presentation of a 6-million naira cheque as financial…
From Sunny A. DAVID / AWKA: A young man suspected be cable vandal was electrocuted on Sunday while attempting to vandalize armoured cable at Ezinifite, Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State. The deceased whose name could not be ascertained as at…
From Mike Sogbola-Maiduguri: The United Nation’s’ Children Fund (UNICEF) has condemned the use of children as human bombs and in any combat or non-combat roles in the ongoing conflict in Nigeria’s north-east. UNICEF claimed that from 2018 till date 53 children were…
From Mike Sogbola-Maiduguri: The UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Mr. Edward Kallon has condemned the multiple suicide bombings that reportedly claimed the lives of at least 30 civilians and injured more than 40 others on the evening of Sunday 16 June 2019….
From Mike Sogbola- Maiduguri Governor of Borno state, Kashim Shettima has officially reacted to the death (presume suicide) of his personal steward, John Achagwa, who on Monday was seen hanging lifeless on a tree at the Borno State Government House. Shettima, in…
From Mike Sogbola- Maiduguri Victims Support Fund (VSF) on Monday commissioned 147 public buildings put at a total cost of N1.45 billion in Yobe state. This is part of efforts at reconstruction of the Boko Haram affected state after destruction from the…
From SUNNY A. DAVID / AWKA Anambra State Government has banned the use of tinted windscreens, glasses and stickers on commercial buses, shuttles and tricycles with immediate effect. Commissioner for Transport, Mr. Uchenna Okafor, gave this directive during a meeting with Transport…
From Mike SOGBOLA: The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai on Tuesday admitted that the Nigerian Army has had occasional hitches in the ongoing war against terrorism in the North East. He however said that despite this, under his…
PRESS RELEASE CLEARANCE OPERATIONS: TROOPS RESCUE 29 WOMEN & 25 CHILDREN FROM BOKO HARAM TERRORISTS IN BORNO STATE Troops of 22 Brigade, Operation LAFIYA DOLE in collaboration with local vigilantes have continued moving into the hinterland on clearance operation to destroy Boko…
From Mike Sogbola- European Union as part of it’s plan to bring stability to Northeast Nigeria has targeted 600,000 individuals in Borno State alone, being the epicentre of the Boko Haram insurgency. The Union, which through the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)…
