FORMER military president, General Ibrahim Babangida has called on the Federal Government to take the weekend attack on the Emir of Kano by a…
Almost a week after former head of state, General Muhammadu Buhari, declined a mediatory role to end the bloody offensive of the Islamic militant group, Boko Haram, former…
(AFP) – Nobel literature laureate Wole Soyinka said Friday that trying to end a deadly insurgency by Islamist extremist group Boko Haram through dialogue would amount to “abysmal appeasement.”
President Goodluck Jonathan earlier this year encouraged the Islamists, blamed for hundreds of deaths since 2009, to publicly state their demands, and his government has confirmed that “back-channel” talks with the group are…
The Federal Government on Wednesday said it accepted to hold dialogue with the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, in order to arrest…
Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar 111
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar 111, has appealed to perpetrators of violence to tow the path of dialogue in order to bring an end to wanton killings in the country.
Abubakar said this in a statement by…
Atiku’s Political Adviser to Govt ‘Don’t Fight Boko Haram If You Want Dialogue’
Political Adviser to former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, who himself promised in December 2010 that “those who make peaceful change impossible make violent change inevitable”, has today called on the Federal Government to stop killing Boko Haram members if it wants dialogue.
Malam Bashir Yusuf said…
Written by Chris Agbambu, Abuja Sunday, 20 May 2012
Vice President, Architect Mohammed Nemadi Sambo on Saturday urged well meaning Nigerians, Islamic clerics and eminent Nigerians, including top government officials, to ask the Boko Haram sect to drop their arms and embrace…
From ADETUTU FOLASADE-KOYI, Abuja Saturday May 12 , 2012
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Senate President, David Mark yesterday called on members of the Boko Haram sect to accept the overtures made by the Federal Government…