Banditry: Katsina Government sets up committee to determine number of indigent refugees, IDPs

Katsina State Government has set up a committee to secure statistics of its indigenes that fled to neighbouring states or countries as a result of security challenges. Alhaji Ibrahim Katsina, Special Adviser to Governor Aminu Masari on Security Matters, said on Saturday in Katsina that the exercise is aimed at exploring the possibility of rehabilitating […]

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Queen Elizabeth suffers ‘sprained back’

(Photo by Arthur Edwards / Pool / AFP) Queen Elizabeth II on Sunday missed the annual Remembrance service at the Cenotaph with a “sprained back”, further stoking fears for her health after she was forced to cancel a series of engagements on medical advice. The ceremony, honouring the sacrifice of British and Commonwealth service personnel […]

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2023: Northern group drums support for Igbo president

The Association of Arewa Community in Igboland has called for support for the emergence of an Igbo person as president of Nigeria in the 2023 General Elections. Its National President, Alhaji Mohammed Umaru, who made the appeal at a news briefing on Sunday in Umuahia, described the Igbo people as “accommodating”. Umaru harped on the […]

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SERAP petitions UN over raid on Supreme Court Justice Mary Odili’s home

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has petitioned the United Nation, seeking its intervention in bringing to justice the individuals responsible for the raid on the residence of Supreme Court Justice, Mary Odili. The human rights group in a petition dated November 13, 2021 and addressed to the UN Special Rapporteur on the independence […]

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How ISWAP killed army general in Borno, by Ndume

Fresh facts have emerged on how Libyan mercenaries believed to have joined forces with insurgents of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) in the Northeast, killed Brigadier General Dzarma Zirkushu and three other soldiers in Borno. Chairman Senate Committee on Army, Senator Muhammed Ali Ndume, who spoke on the deadly attack in Abuja, […]

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How secondary school student staged own kidnapping to extort mum

Police Inspector General Aliyu Baba A 17-year-old student, Obinna Nwatu has reportedly connived with another young man to stage his own kidnapp and extort money from his mother, Mrs. Rose Nwatu. The teenager who is a Senior Secondary School (SSS) 3 student of Good Shepherd Secondary School, Umuahia, Abia State allegedly conspired with his gang […]

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Niger Delta group replies Akpabio over delay of NDDC board inauguration

Our attention has been drawn to a belated but futile attempt by the embattled Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, in a statement which he released, titled “Re: Formation of NDDC Board Not Part of My Responsibilities.” In the statement published in a national daily on Sunday, November 14, 2021, Senator Akpabio unsuccessfully […]

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Buhari in South Africa to seek $40bn investments

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday arrived Durban, South Africa, from Paris as part of his ongoing socio-economic diplomatic missions aimed at enhancing security and economic transformation of the country. He is in Durban at the special invitation of President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa, to attend the inauguration of the second Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF) […]

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Defence Headquarters debunks coup story as false

The Defence Headquarters says the publication by an online newspaper claiming that the Nigerian military had warned politicians and officers against a coup was false. “It is a malicious attempt to bring the military to disrepute. “It is obvious that the online newspaper which published the mischievous story has its own sinister intention to cause […]

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