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Hundreds of residents of Gauraka Community in Tafa Local Government Area of Niger State on Monday blocked the Abuja-Kaduna Highway to protest regular kidnapping and insecurity in the community. Most protesters, mainly youths, blocked the highway and roads while they burnt tyres. The protesters demanded that the state and Federal Government boost security in the […]
President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has met with the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF, Doctor KAYODE FAYEMI, in the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The president also met with the Chairman of the All-Progressives Congress, APC National Caretaker Committee and Yobe State Governor, MAI MALA BUNI, and the Niger State Governor, SANI BELLO. Some reports indicate that […]
The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a Brazil-based suspected drug baron, EJIOFOR ENWEREAKU, at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos. The NDLEA operatives, who rejected a 24, 500-dollar bribe, had linked EJIOFOR to earlier seizure of cocaine worth 8billion naira on May 8th. In a statement, the NDLEA […]
The House of Representatives has called on the Federal Government to suspend the planned 2021 census until the insecurity situation in the country is addressed. The House presided over by Speaker FEMI GBAJABIAMILA advised the Federal Government to suspend the exercise till such a time the country was safe enough for it. This was disclosed […]
The People Democratic Party, PDP, has tackled the presidency over the allegation that some Nigerians are plotting to forcefully remove the president. The presidency had said that some dissatisfied religious and political leaders were planning the removal of President MUHAMMADU BUHARI. However, PDP Publicity Secretary,KOLA OLOGBONDIYAN, urged the presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC) […]
Controversial Islamic cleric, AHMAD GUMI, wants the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to pay the 100 million naira demanded by the abductors of Greenfield University students, Kaduna state. The students are still in captivity after they were abducted on April 18 when gunmen attacked the school. The kidnappers have since killed five of the students […]
The Federal Government has accused the main opposition party, the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, of playing politics with security problems of the country. The Minister of Information and Culture, LAI MOHAMMED made the accusation in a news conference in Abuja, noting that the PDP alleged that kidnappers and bandits were not being brought to justice. […]
Rivers State Governor, NYESOM WIKE has told those riding on the hospitality of the Rivers people to hatch their secessionist agenda to take such activities elsewhere. Governor WIKE gave the warning when the traditional rulers, political and opinion leaders of Ekpeye nationality paid him a solidarity visit at Government House, Port Harcourt. WIKE also announced […]
Government officials in Mexico are investigating the causes of an railway bridge that collapsed and killed at least 23 people when a Mexico City metro train plunged onto a busy road below. Firemen using heavy chains to stabilize the site reportedly pulled bodies and survivors from wreckage. Other reports indicated that the injured were taken […]
Some of the mothers of the abducted students of the College of Forestry Mechanization Afaka in Kaduna State has cried out in protest to lawmakers in the National Assembly complex, Abuja. The protesters which include members of the Students Union Government, SUG, of the institution lamented over what the alleged negligence of the state and […]
