December 2011
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Boko Haram: Are You Planning To Destroy Nigeria?... →
I am absolutely sad and disheartened to observe what is going on at the moment as regards the turbulence and destructive activities of the so-called Boko Haram in our country. Since our independence in 1960, we faced so many disorderliness and confusion within our nation. I dare say that before independence, ours was a land flowing with milk and honey.
Then we largely depended on agriculture;...
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Boko Haram: Southern Kaduna Festival Cancelled;... →
Out of fear of possible Boko Haram bombing, the 2012 Afan Festival, also known as Kagoro Day in Southern Kaduna, has been cancelled. The event, the largest and most popular ethnic festival in Northern Nigeria, is normally held on the 1st of January.
The cancellation is in recognition of the bombings the Boko Haram sect vowed to unleash on Christian communities on 31st December 2011 and 1st...
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Four Killed In New Explosion Near Mosque In... →
At least four people have been killed and several others wounded due to a bomb explosion in Maiduguri on Friday.
A Maiduguri resident and eyewitness said the blast occurred near a local Mosque while people were finishing Friday prayers.
“There was a loud blast near the mosque just after the Friday prayers as people were trooping out of the mosque. Everybody scampered to safety, leading to...
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Family Of Four Killed In Machete Attack In Plateau... →
A family of four people was killed in a machete attack in Nigeria’s ethnically and religiously mixed Plateau state on Wednesday, the state government’s spokesman said.
Plateau is a tinderbox of ethnic and religious rivalries over land and power between local people and migrants from other areas. These often take the form of sectarian strife between the state’s Christian and...
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Another Explosion Reported In Sapele, Delta State →
Citizen reporters affiliated with Saharareporters have reported another bomb explosion in the Hausa quarters in Sapele, Delta state.
The explosion happened at an Arabic school along Urhobo Road. The explosion was similar to the one that ripped through a Mosque in the township on December 10.
There are unconfirmed reports of 3 injuries.
Saharareporters will continue to provide details as...
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Seven Children Hurt In New Bomb Attack On... →
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The Delta State police command has confirmed that another bomb was detonated in the Hausa quarters in Sapele, Delta state. The bomb explosion happened at a Qu’ranic school along Urhobo Road in Central Sapele as earlier reported by Saharareporters. The attack was similar to the one that ripped through a Mosque in the township on Dec. 10 at a local Mosque in the...
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Suswam's Wife Dupes Benue Women-Premier Magazine →
Despite the wide publicity given to the fifth edition of celebrate Benue women organized by the First Lady of Benue Arch. Mrs. Dooshima Yemisi Suswam, the occasion was scarcely attended, The Premier investigation has revealed.
The fifth edition which also featured the second anniversary breakfast prayer fellowship and book lunch witnessed a scanty population of women both at the IBB square and...
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Boko Haram Killed Two Senior Police Officers, 13... →
Five explosions rocked the beleaguered townships of Damaturu and Potiskum in Yobe State today as combined teams of the Nigerian police and army engaged Boko Haram militants in sustained firefights overnight.
Meanwhile Saharareporters has confirmed today that two senior police officers and 13 others were killed in the attacks that started yesterday. Yet unconfirmed reports also disclosed that 10...
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Commentary: Homosexuality And Nigeria’s Enochs and... →
An unmistakable irony marks the current crusade of Africa’s Christians against what they see as the evil of homosexuality. Let’s call it the holy irony, though unholy might be the apt modifier given the stunning absence of Christian love and understanding that characterises it.
It is the irony of a people once enslaved and colonised by Europe partly for their heathenism now assuming the mantle of...
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Akwa Ibom: Oil Worker Killed At N20 Police... →
The shameful checkpoint bribe collection culture of the Nigerian Police claimed another life on Saturday in Akwa Ibom State.
Divine Asubob, a 32-year old oil worker at the Qua Iboe oil fields operated by Mobil Producing Nigeria, was crushed to death at a police check point in Esit Eket local government.
SaharaReporters learnt that the deceased, who was riding a motorbike, met his untimely death...
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Boko Haram Admits Death Of Three Members in... →
The insurgent Islamist group, Boko Haram, yesterday confirmed that three of its members were killed by their own bombs in Saturday’s explosion in Shuwari, Maiduguri.
A spokesman of the group, Abul Qaqa, made the confirmation in a telephone conference with newsmen in Maiduguri on Sunday.
“We have hundreds of members that are willing to sacrifice their lives in this crusade,” said Mr....
Alleged Independence Day Bombers, Charles Okah And... →
Charles Okah and Obi Nwabueze, who were arraigned in October 2010 for alleged involvement in last year’s the Independence Day bombing in Abuja, have warned the Comptroller-General of Prisons over the harsh and inhuman treatment they are enduring in Kuje Prisons.
In a petition filed today by Ogbenovo Otemu and Matthew Omonade on behalf of Festus Keyamo Chambers, the lawyers alerted the ...
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COMMENTARY: Senate and Gays By Damola Awoyokun →
“If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, he shall pay her father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.”
That is Deuteronomy 22:28. The holy Quran’s Surat Al-Mā’idah 5:38 commands: “As for the thief, the male and the female, ...
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Police Killing of Chief Onokpite in Delta State:... →
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The family of Chief Ogbe Onokpite, the candidate of the Citizens Peoples Party (CPP) in the Delta State 2007 and 2011 gubernatorial elections who died of police gunshot wounds on November 26, has appealed to the Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission to commence a thorough investigation of the incident in order to bring to justice the...
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Jonathan's Budget Presentation: National Assembly... →
Workers at Nigeria’s National Assembly today got more than what they bargain for as the combined team of security agencies subjected them to rigorous screening as Jonathan submits 2012 budget.
A team of heavily armed anti riot mobile policemen and plain cloth operatives were stationed at the main gate. Also a mobile scanning vehicle was stationed at the main gate scanning all vehicles...
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Early Morning Bomb Blast Hits Maiduguri →
The restive northeastern city of Maiduguri experienced yet another bomb explosion this morning. A bomb exploded on Ali Ngoshe street in the London-Chiki area of the city.
A source told SaharaReporters that there are no known casualties so far.
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FOI: FG Sued Over Spending Of Recovered Stolen... →
A civil society group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged the Federal Government to court over “alleged failure to release information and documents on the spending of recovered stolen funds.”
The suit filed last week at the Federal High Court Ikeja followed a Freedom of Information request to the Accountant General of the Federation dated 26 September 2011.
The...
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Boko Haram: Senator Ndume To Remain In SSS Custody →
Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume (PDP, Borno) who is facing terrorism charges, was today remanded in State Security Services (SSS) custody by a Federal High Court, which will decide on his bail application next Friday, December 16.
The Senator was arrested for his links with the Islamic militant group Boko Haram. In court today, the prosecution counsel, Mrs. Fatunde, argued that Senator Ndume’s...
Nigerian Police Harassment Traumatizes British... →
26- year-old Khomeini Bukhari, a British citizen, is still recovering from an incident that he said left him “psychologically traumatized,” and he will not find rest until media outlets throughout the world know what happened to him.
Bukhari wants justice for the harassment he recently encountered from a couple of Nigerian police officers.
That’s why he contacted the likes of Sahara Reporters,...
Kaduna Blast Was A Bomb, Red Cross Says →
The Nigerian Red Cross is backing eyewitness accounts that yesterday’s blast in Kaduna, in which several people were killed, was a bomb blast, not a gas explosion, the Associated Press (AP) has said, based on an internal Red Cross report on the incident a reporter saw today.
Yesterday, the Nigeria Police in Kaduna claimed that the explosion had resulted from a gas cylinder, dismissing...
Monumental Oil Subsidy Fraud And Corruption At The... →
On Thursday December 1, the Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, cringed when the senate joint committee investigating the management of funds set aside for petroleum subsidy handed her a seven-day ultimatum to produce a secret forensic report on the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation in her custody.
The audit, done for her ministry by renowned audit and advisory consultancy, KPMG,...
Nigerian, Osita Mba, May Be Sacked By HM Revenue &... →
Nigerians are often in the news abroad for Advance Fee Fraud and similar offences. According to the following story, published on December 8, 2011 by The Guardian (UK), Osita Mba was just the opposite: a principled lawyer who reported how officials of HM Revenue & Customs had compromised their positions in favour of Goldman Sachs. He may be fired, or prosecuted.
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Book: Late Nigeria President (Umaru Yar'adua)... →
Nigeria’s late President Umaru Yar’Adua grew so weak while in office that at one stage he needed to be carried by a soldier during a state visit to Togo, ultimately becoming unable to speak in the last weeks of his life, according to a new book by his former spokesman Olusegun Adeniyi. Umaru Yar’Adua died in May 2010 and according to a book written by his former spokesman the ill...
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WatchNigerians Protest: Gay & Proud
LGBT activists and those alike, convened in New York on Dec. 5th 2011, at the Nigeria Mission House to protest against Nigeria’s recent passing of the Anti Gay bill, which plans to ban homosexuality in the country.
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Trial Of Niger Delta Activist, Sunny Ofehe,... →
Is Sunny Ofehe a terrorist or a peace activist? The question before a court in the Netherlands will remain unanswered for some time. On Monday, his trial was postponed once more, this time to allow for further investigation.
It is to be hoped that when the trial resumes, the proceedings will finally shed light on why the man who calls himself a peace activist was charged with conspiring to commit...
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Nigeria Is One Of Africa’s "Big Messes of... →
Professor Richard Joseph of Northwestern University has described Nigeria as one of the Big Messes of Countries in Africa. He made the declaration at the 3rd Achebe Colloquium on Africa going on at the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts at Brown University. Other countries he classified as such are Sudan, Congo and Somalia.
Professor Joseph was speaking as part of the panel that...
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CNPP's Reaction To Former President Obasanjo's... →
Former president Olusegun Obasanjo’s statement that, ‘there is the possibility of having the Arab Spring in Nigeria if similar conditions, hardship and unemployment which gave birth to it are not addressed’ is highly commendable.
Whereas Chief Obasanjo as a former president who presided over the affairs of the country in the midst of unprecedented oil revenue, cannot absolve himself of the...
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Court Sentences Boko Haram's Ex-spokesperson To 3... →
An Abuja magistrate court has sentenced to three-year jail term an ex-spokesperson of the Nigeria’s extremist Boko Haram sect blamed for scores of attacks, including the August suicide bombing of UN headquarters here, killing 23 people and injuring more than 80 others.
Chief Magistrate Oyebola Oyewumi had convicted Ali Konduga for felony on November 22 after he pleaded guilty to the...