Jonathan in Makurdi today Nigerian Soldiers operating in Zaria arrested five persons they claimed are potential suicide bombers of the Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati wal-Jihad sect widely known as Boko Haram. The arrests were made in tertiary institutions around the city of Zaria in Kaduna State.
A combined team of soldiers and state security operatives have surrounded a house in Mabera layout in Mabera Itti within the Sokoto metropolis.
According to sources, a house suspected to house armed militants remained under total cordon two a days after detained Boko haram leaders claimed they targeted the Sutan of Sokoto as part of a wider plan to islamize Nigeria.
Earlier there were reports of exchange of gunfire between the soldiers and armed occupants of the house.
One of the kidnapped victims blindfolded by captors The Federal Government raised N111 billion ($703.73 million) at a bond auction on Wednesday, its second this year, with yields on the 2019 bonds marginally higher than at its previous auction, while yields fell on its 2012 bonds, the Debt Management Office (DMO) said yesterday.
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Anambra State Government has proposed to spend N624 million for the conduct of local government election in the state this year.
GUNMEN suspected to be members of the Islamic Boko Haram sect bombed a kiosk in the Abaganaram ward, Maiduguri metropolis, injuring one of the soldiers that engaged the sect members in a shoot out for over half an hour, yesterday.
Delta State Police Command, yesterday, charged six suspected robbers alleged to have disarmed and shot dead six police officers, including an Assistant Superintendent of Police and two Inspectors of Police, between 2011 and this year, in the state before a Magistrate’s Court in Warri on a seven-count charge of conspiracy, murder and stealing.
GUNMEN suspected to be members of the Islamic Boko Haram sect bombed a kiosk in the Abaganaram ward, Maiduguri metropolis, injuring one of the soldiers that engaged the sect members in a shoot out for more than half an hour, yesterday.
Prominent South-South leaders, a former governor and ex-militants in the region, yesterday, took up the northern governors in their agitation for a review of revenue allocation formula saying they were either uninformed, fishing for trouble or have deliberately set out to provoke the South-South.
SENATOR Uche Chukwumerije yesterday in an emotion laden voice sympathised with the people of Asaba, describing the city as the blackest spot in the history of Nigerian civil war.
The Netherlands Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Bert Ronhaar, has identified access to market as the major bottleneck of farmers in the country.
