Day: May 23, 2014

Army Rubbishes Second Mutiny Report

The Nigerian Army has reacted to an online report that soldiers in Maimalari Barracks, Maiduguri, Borno State, manhandled their new GOC posted to them after the former senior officer was shot by some angry officers. In a statement released on Friday by Director, Defence Information in the Army, Maj-Gen Chris Olukolade, the Army stated that…

Police Foils Bomb Attack In Abuja

A bomb attack was on Friday foiled by the police in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja. It was believed that suspected Boko Haram members planned to blow up the area until the men of the Anti Bomb Squad, ABS, of the Nigeria Police stopped it. It was learnt that a Golf car filled with…

Nigeria’s President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, shocked the #BringBackOurGirls demonstrators who protested the abduction of nearly 300 schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno State, over a month ago by the terrorist group called Boko Haram. At the protest on Thursday, the Minister of State, FCT, Mrs Olajumoke Akinjide, who conveyed Jonathan’s speech to the demonstrators, urged them to…