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One person was feared killed in a renewed bloody brawl between Offa and Erin-Ile both of Offa and Oyun local areas of Kwara state. It was gathered that the hostilities between members of transport unions in the two local government areas allegedly started on Wednesday and escalated Thursday. There was a report of gunshots and…
Directs NIS to tighten border security Worried by the rising level of insecurity in the country, President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday charged the nation’s security agencies to up the ante in their drive towards protection of lives and property. He also directed the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) to improve surveillance and control around the nation’s…
The All Progressives Congress has urged security agencies to investigate the attack on its youth office in Gusau, Zamfara. The state APC Caretaker Chairman, Alhaji Lawal Liman said this on Thursday while assessing the level of damage at the office. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that hoodlums on Tuesday attacked the office located at…
Choppers ferry weapons, food to bandits in Zamfara Why Fed Govt declared ‘no fly zone’ in state ACF calls for extension of action to Borno, Benue, Taraba The crackdown ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari on bandits, kidnappers and other criminal elements terrorising Nigerians, has been extended. Security agents have been given the order to shoot…
Following the violence that erupted in Jangebe community on Wednesday, the Zamfara State Government has imposed a dust-to-dawn curfew on the community to prevent any further breach of peace. The Commissioner for Information, Hon. Sulaiman Tunau Anka, who announced the decision of the state government in a statement issued to journalists on Thursday, said the…
Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, said he had engaged with controversial Yoruba activist, Mr Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, over the demands made by Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria to lift their food blockade to Southern Nigeria. Bello spoke to journalists late on Wednesday in Abuja after the Union…
A social political group from Kogi State under the aegis of Progressives Mandate Movement PMM has thrown its weight behind the petition submitted to the anti-graft body, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC by the leadership of Anti-corruption Networks, detailing the allegations of financial mismanagement and corruption against Kogi state governor, Yahaya Bello It…
The House of Representatives on Wednesday urged President Muhammadu Buhari to order the Independent National Electoral Commission to create more Federal constituencies before the 2023 general elections, as it lashed out at the Commission for violating the 1999 constitution, mandating it to do so. The resolution was passed sequel to the adoption of a motion…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has raised alarm over what it described as a sinister plot by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its Federal Government to forcefully take over the governance of Zamfara state through an imposition of an orchestrated state of emergency in the state. This was contained in a statement that was…
In an effort to make Onitsha River Port functional, and to decongest the Lagos Ports, the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) is to engage the services of Akewa Colmar Terminal Limited (ACTL) to move containers from Lagos Ports to Onitsha River Port via Burutu Port in Delta State. Ths was contained in a press statement…
