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Former Governor of Sokoto state,Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa has declared that Northern elders are angry with President Muhammadu Buhari over his poor handling of insecurity in the country. Speaking in Abuja yesterday, the former governor said thousands of people were displaced in the North while the government spends billions on COVID-19. He said if the North…
The Northern Elders Forum has asked herders in Ondo State not to leave their locations and resist moves to be labelled as criminals. In a statement on Wednesday, the spokesman of the group, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, told the Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, to rescind the ultimatum given to herders to vacate forest reserves in the…
A video, which was again recirculated on the social media on Wednesday, has seen a former President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, explaining to the people of his home state, Kwara, why the then Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, allegedly implicated him in the robbery in Offa area of the state in…
The Police on Wednesday said it had arrested 25 suspects in connection with kidnapping, armed robbery, murder, cattle rustling, unlawful possession of weapons and other violent crimes across the country. The Force Public Relations Officers, CP Frank Mba, disclosed this at a media briefing in Abuja. He said a total of five AK47 riffles with…
The Vice-Principal of the Kadandani Community School in Rimi Local Government Area of Katsina State, Ibrahim Tukur, has been arrested for impregnating a 12-year-old student of the school. Tukur was among suspects paraded by the spokesman of the Katsina State Police Command, Gambo Isah, in Katsina on Wednesday. According to Isah: “Ibrahim Tukur is a…
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike with Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers on Wednesday donated N500 million to support the Sokoto State Government in rebuilding the Sokoto Central Market ravaged by fire on Tuesday morning. Mr Wike, who visited the scene of the market inferno barely 24 hours after the disaster,…
A former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari will never support the presidential ambition of the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu. TheAnalystNG reports that Tinubu has not officially declared his intention to run for the Presidency in 2023. But while delivering a speech during the…
Police in Kano have on Wednesday paraded four suspected kidnappers including a 23 year widow Maryam Muhammad, of Butsa Village, Gusau, local government area of Zamfara State. Parading the suspects, police spokesperson in Kano Abdullahi Haruna said the accused were arrested on Friday at a rented apartment located at Jaba Quarters, Ungogo local government area where…
The Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) on Wednesday shared to the three tiers of government N619.343 billion as Federation allocation for December, 2020. This amount includes cost of collection to Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) and Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). The Federal Government received N218.297 billion, the States N178.280 billion,…
A group known as APC mandate defenders has faulted the claim of Yahaya Bello, governor of Kogi state, that the COVID-19 vaccines are meant to kill people. The governor, who has repeatedly disregard COVID-19 protocol and denied the existence of the virus, had told a crowd to reject vaccines because they are “meant to kill”. “Vaccines are…
