The Federal Government has said the 700-hectare integrated farm estate being developed in Okwuha Obayin Village in Ajaokuta Local Government Area of Kogi State will curb clashes between herders and farmers within and outside the state. It said the major reason for developing the facility was to improve the country’s livestock sector, reduce conflict in […]

Proposes Interim Dividend Zenith Bank Plc has reported profit before tax of N117.06bn for the first half of 2021, rising by 2.67 per cent year on year. Its audited interim report for the six months ended June 2021, said the bank’s net interest income increased by 1.61 per cent to N159.94bn in H1 2021 from […]

The Presidency on Saturday said that President Muhammadu Buhari did not accept any invitation to be the negotiator of terrorist group Boko Haram in 2012. Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, made this known in an interview with BBC News Pidgin on Saturday. He was reacting to an allegation […]

Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination has urged the governors in southern Nigeria to unanimously reject the recently assented Petroleum Industry Act by President Muhammadu Buhari or face “never-seen-before mass action.” The group, in a statement on Friday by its Chairman, Prof Banji Akintoye, described the PIA as “a gargantuan move by some vested interest […]

A notorious militia and gang leader, Thomos Obi Tawo, fondly called “General Iron” in Boki Local Government Area, Cross River State where he previously held sway, was on Thursday killed in a gun battle with local vilgilante in the area. He was killed along with some of his gang members and his lifeless body was […]

Imo State Police Command says that it has ‘neutralised’ leader of the Eastern Security Network, the paramilitary organisation of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, a pro-Biafra separatist movement. But the Police did not disclose the identity of the ‘neutralised’ ESN leader. It, however, disclosed the arms and ammunition, as well as other items allegedly […]

Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, says what the Federal Government has done to AK-47-wielding bandits is worse than designating them as terrorists. He spoke in an interview with BBC News Pidgin on Saturday morning. He was responding to a question on why the President Muhammadu Buhari administration has not outlawed blood-sucking bandits just as it proscribed […]

The Nigerian Army and the Police in Zamfara have begun collaborating in the fight against banditry and restoring security in the state, the GOC, 8 Division Nigerian Army, Sokoto, Maj.-Gen. Uwem Bassey has said. Bassey, also the Force Commander, Operation Hadarin Daji, stated this when he paid a courtesy visit to the Zamfara Commissioner of […]