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Yar’Adua’s Government Denies Buying Guns From Militants

Yar'Adua's Government Denies Buying Guns From Militants

The Nigerian government has denied allegations it is buying guns and ammunition to prove its amnesty program in the Niger Delta is on course.
Policemen displayed weapons Saturday collected from Niger delta militants as part of the government amnesty program in Yenagoa, Nigeria.

“Militants are responding to the amnesty program,” Timiebi Koripamo-Agary from the state-run Amnesty Committee [...]

Central Bank of Nigeria Publishes List of Debtors

Central Bank of Nigeria Publishes List of Debtors

Following the recent regulatory action of the Central Bank
of Nigeria on the five (5) banks, it has become necessary
to use this medium to request the following defaulting
customers of the affected banks to pay without further
delay their indebtedness, failing which the banks will take
all appropriate legal actions to ensure repayment.
These are the largest debtors and the [...]

Profiles of New Bank Chiefs

Profiles of New Bank Chiefs

Suzanne Olufunke Iroche

Suzanne Iroche has several years experience in the banking industry. She commenced her banking career with First Bank in 1981 after which she moved to International Merchant Bank,in 1982 where she worked in various areas. In 1986, she proceeded to The J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois, [...]

Cecilia Ibru- Removal of Bank Chiefs Illegal…

Cecilia Ibru- Removal of Bank Chiefs Illegal...

The Chief Executive Officer of Oceanic Bank, Mrs. Cecilia Ibru OFR, who was removed by the Central Bank of Nigeria yesterday, condemned the action of the CBN in sacking the management of Oceanic Bank Plc.
Making a case for Oceanic Bank International Plc she said that her bank in its 2008 accounts had an asset base [...]

EFCC arrests Ahmed Bello, immediate past Comptroller-General of Customs…

EFCC arrests  Ahmed Bello, immediate past Comptroller-General of Customs...

Economic and Financial Crime Commission, (EFCC) has arrested the immediate past Comptroller-General of Customs, Ahmed Bello and five others alleged to have been indicted in the N2.5 billion import duty scam involving the Vaswani Group owned by the Vaswani brothers.

Others arrested with Bello are Comptroller, Apapa Port, Lagos, Awata Suleiman, another official from the [...]

Boko Haram: 300 Christians Were Held Hostage and Forced To Convert to Islam…

Boko Haram: 300 Christians Were Held Hostage and Forced To Convert to Islam...

Meanwhile, it has been revealed that about 300 Christians held hostage by the Boko Haram leader were forced to denounce their faith and convert to Islam. Some of them narrated their harrowing experience to journalists after being released.

It was gathered that even after some were converted to Islam by their abductees, they were slaughtered.
One of [...]

Yar’Adua Orders Probe of Boko Haram’s Leader’s Death

Yar’Adua Orders Probe of Boko Haram's Leader’s Death

President Umaru musa Yar’Adua has ordered a probe of the death of Boko Haram leader, Mohammed Yusuf, an incident that has raised questions of extra-judicial killing by security agents.

This comes as a security source confirmed to THISDAY that a similar group opposed to Western education has been traced to Niger State.
There were conflicting reports regarding [...]

Buji Foi- Video of alleged Boko Haram Financier’s Execution… UPDATE Picture of Corpse Added

Buji Foi- Video of alleged Boko Haram Financier's Execution... UPDATE Picture of Corpse Added

It would make sense if each and every officer involved in this execution is arrested and sentenced to death. We, the taxpayers do not provide them with weapons to line citizens up on the street for summary executions.
We have an active judiciary and laws in the books to deal with pretty much all sorts of [...]

Summary Execution for Boko Haram Financier…

Summary Execution for Boko Haram Financier...

Oh my, while I support the summary execution of Mohammed Yusuf, the leader of Boko Haram, I cannot say I support same for anyone accused of being involved with the sect.
Secondly, the concept of ’summary execution’ in a nation that has a judiciary is just ludicrous…
Naija Pundit
Guardian
THE military offensive against members of the extremist Boko [...]

Video and Transcript of Interrogation of Boko Haram Leader

Here is the video and transcript of the interrogation of Boko Haram leader. Video (in Hausa) follows transcript:
NPF- Nigeria Police Force
MD- Mohammed Yusuf

NPF: Yesterday we went to your house; we saw a lot of animals, students and stuff you guys are putting together. What are you going to do with all these stuff?
MY: [...]