resolve to float security outfit Bauchi governor advocates state police North East Governors’ Forum, NEGF, has urged the Federal Government to seek assistance from neighbouring countries of Niger, Chad and Cameroun to end insurgency in the country. Speaking yesterday at their fourth meeting in Bauchi, they promised to float a regional security outfit in line […]
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Choppers ferry weapons, food to bandits in Zamfara Why Fed Govt declared ‘no fly zone’ in state ACF calls for extension of action to Borno, Benue, Taraba The crackdown ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari on bandits, kidnappers and other criminal elements terrorising Nigerians, has been extended. Security agents have been given the order to shoot […]
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Police Inspector General Mohammed Adamu The Delta State Police command on Thursday said it rescued 16 persons, killed an armed robber and recovered an Ak-47 rifle with live ammunition in separate locations in the state. The acting Police public relations officer, DSP Bright Edafe, in a statement, said the police received a distress call on […]
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Aerial supply of arms, ammunition and food to bandits is a major reason for the imposition of ‘no fly zone’ order on Zamfara State, it was learnt on Wednesday. Besides, helicopters are also used to illegally transport gold mineral from the state. The Federal Government slammed the “no fly” order on the state on Tuesday […]
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Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu on Thursday sent names of four commissioner-nominees to the state House of Assembly for screening. He had earlier sent 13 names of special advisers to the Assembly which was approved by the lawmakers. The new names include former appointees who served with the governor in his first term. They are […]
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‘If tiny Israel could feed self, why not South East?’ Stakeholders in agriculture and farmers in the South West, yesterday, allayed fears of food scarcity following the alleged stoppage of food supply to the region. But they were quick to challenge state governments in the region to take full advantage of massive fertile land in […]
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The first batch of Oxford/AstraZenica COVID-19 vaccine doses are offloaded from a plane during its arrival at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, in Abuja, Nigeria, on March 2, 2021. – A shipment of nearly four million coronavirus jabs arrived in Nigeria on March 2, 2021, making Africa’s most populous nation the world’s third country to […]
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By Abdu Rafiu While a great many Nigerians are trying to clear their eyes on awakening from a nightmarish dream about events in their country, school palaver in Kwara is adding its own twist to further muddle the waters. In the dream many find themselves driven to grapple with the question as to whether blood […]
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Massive military assets for ‘no-fly zone’ Zamfara Lawan to Service Chiefs: Take battle to bandits It is time to take decisive action against banditry and kidnapping in the country, the National Security Council decided on Tuesday. Flowing from this, President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered a total war on bandits, kidnappers and insurgents. Also, Senate President […]
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Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala assumed office today as the Director General of the World Trade Organisation. She is the first African and first woman to occupy the exalted office. Pictures:
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