Govt officials always present whenever I meet bandits, says Dr Gumi

Popular Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has disclosed that his interactions with bandits were done in the presence of government officials. Gumi disclosed this while rebuking those calling for his arrest and prosecution over his interaction with bandits. The Islamic cleric described those calling for his arrest as “clowns.” Recall that the Human Rights Writers…

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Banditry: We’re paying ransom in hundreds of millions to bandits, Zazzau, Birnin Gwari emirs lament

The emirs of Zazzau and Birnin-Gwari, Ahmed Nuhu-Bamalli and Zubairu Maigwari II, on Wednesday, lamented that their subjects have been paying hundreds of millions of Naira as ransom to rescue their loved ones from kidnappers in the state. The emirs made the lamentation on Wednesday during the presentation of the state’s 2020 Annual Security Report…

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Insecurity: Gunmen abduct teachers, students in Edo

Gunmen on Wednesday night invaded the  by  for face mask violation, other offencesInstitute of Construction Technology, Uromi, Esan Northeast Local Government Area of Edo State and abducted yet-to-be-ascertained number of teachers and students. According to eye witness The the kidnappers invaded the institute on Wednesday night, amid sporadic gunshots. The development, it was gathered heightened…

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Kogi State Universal Basic Education Board(SUBEB) File 2

Chairman Kogi-SUBEB, Comrade Suleiman Abdullahi Ndalayi, has commended the State Commissioner for Education Hon Wemi Jones for initiating State Education Sector Plan (SESP) and State Education Strategic Operational Plan (SESOP), saying it would make education in the state to regain its lost glory and take the sector to a greater height. Comrade Suleiman also thanked…

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Where is Murtala Nyako?

By Olusegun Adeniyi On 16th April 2014, the Northern Governors Forum met in Kaduna to discuss the security challenge facing the region at the time. Three days later, Admiral Murtala Nyako (rtd), then Governor of Adamawa State, released a memo he presented at the session titled ‘On-Going Full-Fledged Genocide in Northern Nigeria’. In the poorly written,…

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