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Since the advent of Boko Haram insurgency in the country more than 10 years ago, different layers of insecurity have been allowed to fester, with the escalation of herders’-farmer’ clashes, armed robbery, cattle rustling and now, mass abduction of students from their hostels at night. This new wave of kidnapping by bandits, who are taking…
The Nigerian Youths Movement for Tinubu (NYMT), on Tuesday, urged the National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu to join the 2023 presidential race. The organization declared that Tinubu was the perfect fit to take over from President Muhammadu Buhari. Mukhtar Mukhtar, Director General, NYMT, told reporters in Abuja that he has been…
No fewer than 100 miners operating between Anka and Maru Local Government Areas of Zamfara State have been abducted by bandits, the Emir of Anka, Alhaji Attahiru Ahmad, has disclosed. Ahmad, who is also the Chairman of the state Council of Chiefs, made this known in Gusau on Tuesday when the Chief of Defence Staff,…
By Donatus Okpe I thought year 2020’s womb was extraordinarily created for deaths particularly the deaths of the great as well that of young men. I prayed in January 2021 not see the deaths of loved ones especially young people. Last year I lost about 10 persons that had intimate relationship with me.As I was…
Federal College of Dental Technology and Therapy, Enugu has dissociated itself from a statement in circulation, portraying the college as already possessing full authorisation to run independent degree programmes.Purveyors of the controversial statement had acted on the recent approval granted by the National Universities Commission (NUC) for the commencement of degree programmes in the college…
• ‘Nobody will gain from Nigeria’s break-up’ Bishop of Catholic Archdiocese of Sokoto, Matthew Hassan Kukah, has said Nigeria’s Presidents since independence came to power without preparing to solve the nation’s challenges. Kukah spoke during a virtual session moderated by Toyin Falola, a professor of History at the University of Texas in the United States…
Sule Lamido, a former Jigawa State Governor, has declared that there is no All Progressives Congress, APC, in Nigeria. According to the former governor and presidential aspirant in the 2019 general election, the ruling party has disintegrated Lamido said that the country was more divided under the APC-led Federal Government. He stated this on Monday…
The Nigerian Army has warned popular Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi and other “opinion merchants” in the country to exercise restraint with their utterances and not drag the Army to disrepute. The warning is contained in a statement titled, ‘Nigerian Army Does Not Deploy Its Troops Along Ethnic Or Religious Lines’, signed on Monday by…
Mallam Iliya Gwaram, the father of one of the abducted Jangebe schoolgirls, who himself had been in captivity, regained his freedom on Monday night with tales of sadness and joy. Gwaram, who was brought to Government House, Gusau around 9 p.m. on Monday, said he told his daughter not to recognise him in the den…
Threatens suspension of Governor from party Some members of the Kogi State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) under the auspices of Concerned APC Members, have berated State Governor, Yahaya Bello, over what they called his “blinded ambition” to contest for the office of the President in 2023. The group said Bello’s new found…
