The menace continues: Boko Haram guns down NTA reporter

Jama’atu Ahlus Sunnati Lidda’awati Wal Jihad, the group more popular as Boko Haram have confirmed that are behind the murder of  Zakariyya Isa, who was before his death a reporter with the Nigeria Television Authority’s (NTA) Maiduguri Network Centre.

This clears up earlier speculations that the reporter was a victim of ‘mistaken identity’. The group said Zakariyya was killed because he was acting as an informant of security agencies. This is…

Nigeria; in search of a Bouazizi.

By: MUSTAPHA ABDULLAHI

When on December 17lh2010, the cart of Bouazizi was confiscated by the Tunisian police headed by one FEYDA HAMDI, little did they know that such “insignificant” event could metamorphose into a revolution that today is still brewing through the entire Middle East, and has sent many governments creeping on their knees.

Tarek al-Tayyib Muhammad ibn Bouazizi popularly called Basboosa by his peers was an unemployed graduate of computer…

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Recent developments in the political climate of the country has strongly suggested that the forthcoming elections

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Communal violence has surged over recent years. PDP Governor Jonah Jang, who is up for re-election, has been accused of manipulating identity for his own political ends. Hundreds were killed in violence related to the…

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But like the saying goes you cannot teach an old dog a new triek. The party leadership who enjoys the leverage of excessive use of arbitrary powers has become too used to this game and would not let go easily. The first attempts by members of the rebel group to wrestle away control of the party from state governors failed because their submission on how to promote the culture…

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Missionary leader to blame for kidnap case

Ten Baptist missionaries are facing kidnapping charges in Haiti for trying to take 33 children out of the country, and the lawyer for all the defendants is putting the blame on the group’s leader.

Attorney Edwin Coq said Laura Silsby knew the group couldn’t remove the youngsters without proper paperwork, while he characterized the other…