By Abdu Rafiu There is this inexorable sliding down the slope of the cliff in most parts of the world. In Nigeria, robust discourse is fast giving way to rancorous threats of violent conflict. The air is filled and thick with talk of imminent war and you wonder: Do we know what we are saying? […]
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Governor Bello Bandits who kidnapped pupils of the Salihu Tanko Islamiyya School in Tegina town in the Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State have contacted the management of the institution. The bandits contacted the school headmaster, Alhaji Abubakar Alhassan, around 4pm on Monday, asking him to pay N110m as ransom for the release of […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, warned people behind security problems in the country, saying he would soon be hard on them. He also said secessionists were too young to know loss of lives and other tragedies that attended the Nigerian civil war of 1967 to 1970. Buhari said these at the Presidential Villa, Abuja after […]
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The Movement for the Actualisation of a Sovereign State of Biafra on Tuesday said that the success of the Monday sit-at-home order declared by the Indigenous People of Biafra had shown that nobody can ignore the Igbo any longer. MASSOB’s leader, Uchenna Madu said the overwhelming compliance to the order had proven that the Igbo […]
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The Senate Public Accounts Committee on Tuesday threatened to invoke the necessary provisions of the constitution to compel about 56 agencies of Federal Government to appear before it from next week Tuesday. The Chairman of the Senate panel, Senator Matthew Urhoghide, said this while addressing journalists after some agencies summoned to appear before it shunned […]
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The remains of an officer of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Josephine Onche, who was declared missing a few days to her wedding in 2019, have been found in a shallow grave in the Obi Local Government Area of Benue State. Josephine’s family had on December 20, 2019, declared her missing after going […]
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EDO State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has denied receiving the congratulatory letters written by the duo of former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, and the candidate of the APC in the last Edo State governorship election, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu. Obaseki, who spoke to his supporters along Ring Road, Benin, on Tuesday, said […]
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set to contest 2023 presidential election condemns ‘reckless foreign borrowing‘ Former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and candidate of the Young Progressive Party (YPP) in the 2019 presidential elections, Prof. Kingsley Moghalu, has canvassed electoral reforms that will enable Nigerians abroad to vote from their countries of abode. Moghalu, who made […]
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Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki (middle); Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu (left) and Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Osarodion Ogie, (right), during a rally to celebrate the governor’s Supreme Court victory in Benin City…yesterday ‘Ruling end of godfather syndrome, freedom for Edo people’ Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, yesterday, led citizens of the state, party […]
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Stakeholders demand 1963 Constitution, state police, others Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has advocated the scrapping of the current National Assembly system due to its wastefulness, urging the legislative arm of government to embrace unicameral legislature. According to him, “we recommend, most enthusiastically, a return to the 1963 Republican Constitution. We will resolve many fundamental […]
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