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 Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum on Tuesday said over 100,000 people have been killed in the state in the last 12 years contrary to other claims on the numbers of persons killed by Boko Haram insurgents. According to the governor, 10 per cent of the population of Borno State is unaccounted for as…

Suspected bandits have attacked the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) in Kaduna. The bandits were said to have broken into the academy around 1 am Tuesday. Military sources who spoke with TheCable said an officer was killed and while two others were abducted. “They took about three officers, and one of them who resisted and tried…

Since the return to democracy in 1999, among the myriad of problems Plateau State has grappled with for close to two decades, security of lives and property appears to be the most pressing. This follows the outbreak of hostilities on 7th of September, 2001, in the city of Jos and other communities in the State….

Kidnappers of Bethel Baptist School students on Saturday night released 15 students. Recall that scores of students were kidnapped two months ago. While a few of them were released, 70 other students were still in the hands of their abductors who demanded huge sums of ransom from their parents. Following the huge demand, parents have…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Kano Zonal Command has on Wednesday arraigned Ebonine Rita Uzoamaka, before Justice Maryam Sabo of the Kano State High Court sitting in Milla Road Bompai, Kano for alleged fraud. THEANALYSTNG reports that the petitioner, Ochayi Anthony Eneche, was allegedly persuaded to invest the sum of five million six hundred…

By Festus Adedayo In 1964, the Nigerian Tribune’s editorial comment, entitled “Where do we go from here?”, a scurrilous attack on the Premier, Ladoke Akintola’s government of the Western Region,  published on April 16 of that year, landed its editor, Ilobu, now Osun State-born Ayo Ojewumi, alias Pen Atalanta, in a hot soup of sedition charges. The comment contained…

In a bid to reduce the high rate of unemployment in Lokoja Local Government,Kogi Union of Tailors (KUT) old market Zone Lokoja, has empowered 20 Youths through it apprenticeship programme. Comrade Danjuma Sulaiman,state Chairman of the union said this at the induction ceremony of the beneficiaries in Lokoja on Wednesday. He said the high rate…

In his efforts towards fostering Unity among his friends and brothers, the Chigari of Lokoja, Alhaji Ahmed Sanusi Ahmed, has Wednesday hosted Hakimis and his Lokoja kinsmen to a dinner (Walmat) The Deputy Commissioner of Police , while appreciating large crowd of lokojians who trooped his GRA residence Lokoja, explained the virtues of assisting the…

There is something in the mien of Alhaji Zakari Ahmodu Dangana, which magnetizes a first time visitor to him. His dove like nature, his warmth, confirms that this is a true leader, deserving of leading his people. Born precisely on the 3rd of January, 1940, Alhaji Dangana was born in Minna Niger State, to the…