Senators and three governors on Tuesday expressed concern about the nationwide ceaseless killings and kidnappings in the country, urging the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd,), to seek foreign help. The lawmakers, while debating a motion on activities of Boko Haram in Niger State, described insecurity in the country as not only terrible, but […]
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State on Monday appointed a Deputy Vice Chancellor, Management Services, of the University of Lagos, Prof Ben Oghojafor as the Vice Chancellor of the newly-established Denis Osadebey University, Anwai, Asaba. Also appointed is Prof. (Mrs.) Stella Chinye Chiemeke as the Vice Chancellor of University of Delta, Agbor. She is […]
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has expressed confidence that Nigeria will overcome her current security challenges. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, said that the vice president made this known when he received a traditional ruler from Nasarawa State, Alhaji Ahmed Hassan, the Yankanje Uke. Osinbajo assured that the present […]
Governor Abubakar Bello of Niger State, on Monday said Boko Haram had already infiltrated the state and had not only hoisted their flags in captured villages, including Kaure village in the Shiroro Local Government of the state, they had also forcefully allocated displaced women to themselves as wives. The governor speaking when he visited […]
Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, weekend, reiterated that the All Progressives Congress, APC would sack the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP from some States in the South-South region in 2023. Omo-Agege who stated this at Illah in Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State, shortly after inspecting the rehabilitation work […]
Chad’s military transitional government said Sunday it would not negotiate with the rebels blamed for killing the country’s president of three decades, raising the specter that the armed fighters might press ahead with their threats to attack the capital. A spokesman for the rebel group known as the Front for Change and Concord in […]
The Kaduna State Government has said one person was killed and four others abducted in the attack on Haske Baptist Church at Manini village, in Chikun Local Government Area. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the gunmen attacked the church at about 9.a.m on Sunday. The government said Dr Zechariah Dogonyaro was shot […]
Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers has strongly condemned “the barbaric and dastardly” attack on security personnel along Omagwa/Isiokpo/Elele Owerri Road in Ikwerre Local Government Area of the state. Wike made this known on Sunday in a statement by his Media Aide, Mr Kelvin Ebiri, in Port Harcourt. He said: “ There is no justification […]
Rights activist, Chief Rita Lori Ogbebor, has called on Delta State governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, to avert another crisis between Ijaw and Itsekiri by calling those threatening to sack Itsekiri communities from their lands. She also warned that recent events in the area were reminiscent of the early days of the Ijaw/Itsekiri crisis also […]
Rebels in Chad threatened to depose the son of the country’s slain president after he was named interim leader of the strategic central African nation, raising the specter Wednesday of a violent power struggle. It was not certain how close the rebel column was to N’Djamena, the capital city of 1 million people, or […]
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