By Reuben Abati “What is going on?”“Where?”“Where else? Nigeria of course.”“What has happened again?”“What has not happened? The other week, we were all lamenting that 43 farmers were slaughtered in Zabarmari, in Borno State, and now the whole world is being told that hundreds of school boys have been kidnapped from their school – a […]
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says intelligence, right equipment, training of security forces needed to crush insurgency A South African military contracting company, Conella Services Ltd., engaged by President Goodluck Jonathan administration to contain the Boko Haram insurgency in 2014, yesterday expressed its readiness to return to the country, if asked to by the Federal Government, to finish the job […]
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Katsina opens talks with abductors Masari briefs Buhari in Daura Insecurity getting worse, laments Sultan One killed, 19 kidnapped in Niger President Muhammadu Buhari was put on the spot yesterday as leaders of opinion, including Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, and Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III, expressed deep concerns about the worsening security situation […]
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A truce meeting between the Federal Government and the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) was cancelled on Monday. It was the second time in a row. No reason was given for the cancellation of the parley scheduled to discuss the union’s current strike. It was gathered that ASUU was still consulting […]
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Kidnappers demand ransom, end to aerial surveillance North’s elders, JNI slam govt UN, NLC, others flay boys’ kidnap Abductors of pupils of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, took the boys away on motorcycles, the military said Monday night. The assailants came to the school premises on Friday night, shot dead one of the […]
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Being the first Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission to be given clearance to serve for a second term by the National Assembly, Prof Mahmood Yakubu may consider himself lucky. But his seeming good luck is entwined in a mesh of responsibility and great expectations by Nigerians regarding the performance of the umpire in […]
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This file screenshot taken on May 6, 2017 from a video released by the Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram shows the leader of the Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau flanked by two fighters at an unidentified location. PHOTO: THE GUARDIAN / BOKO HARAM / YOUTUBE Jihadist group Boko Haram on Tuesday […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari (left) and Katsina State Governor, Aminu Bello Masari during the governor’s visit to brief the President on the Kankara school abductions, at the President’s House in Daura, Katsina State…yesterday. Attackers injure participants, cart away valuables Masari briefsPresident on Kankara abduction Sultan queries FG’s political will Northern elders restate calls for sack of […]
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• From left: Chairman, Board of Trustees, Lagos State Security Trust Fund (LSSTF), Mr. Kehinde Durosimi-Etti; Wife of late Inspector Igoche Cornelius; Executive Secretary/CEO, (LSSTF), Dr. Abdurrazaq Balogun; Sanwo-Olu and Odumosu during a presentation to the families of Police Officers who died during the unrest that followed the EndSARS protests Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu […]
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• UN, UNICEF flay kidnap President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday came under the hammer of Northern elders and the Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI) over weekend’s abduction of 333 students of the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, Katsina State. While the elders lamented that the “President’s idea about insecurity has proved inadequate to deal with […]
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