Apparently alarmed by the spate of hate speeches and threat from northern youths to South Easterners to vacate the north before October 1, members of the National Peace Committee today met inRead More…
Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar (Rtd), Chairman of the National Peace Committee Issued on July 11, 2017 We’ve recently come to the end of the holy month of Ramadan, for millions of Nigerians, aRead More…
By Matthew Hassan Kukah, Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese Convocation lecture, delivered at the 21st Convocation Ceremony at the University of Abuja, February 24th, 2017) On January 20th, 2017, the world literallyRead More…
Fr. Atta Barkindo For the past one decade, there has been a rise in violent activities perpetrated by various extremist groups around the Lake Chad region and the Sahel. In February 2007,Read More…
By Fr. Atta Barkindo Boko Haram’s activities in the Lake Chad basin have blighted the lives of millions of Nigerians since 2009. The indifference which for years exemplified the government’s response toRead More…
Fr. Atta Barkindo By the time Muhammad Yusuf became leader of Boko Haram in 2003 he was already entrenched in the Islamic activism of the region. Born in January 1970 inRead More…
For two weeks in July, members of the Nigeria police force battled members of a sect within Islam known asBoko Haram. The violence first started after the members of the so calledRead More…