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The Nigerian Army has dismissed allegations by a lawmaker in Abia that military personnel were aiding and abetting criminality in the Isuikwuato Local Government Area of the state. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, in a statement in Abuja, warned the lawmaker to desist from such blackmail. Nwachukwu said that the assembly member representing Isuikwuato constituency of Abia had...

The Federal Government has dismissed the calls of Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State, his Benue State counterpart, Samuel Ortom, some individuals and organisations, that people should defend themselves against bandits. The Minister of Police Affairs, Muhammed Dingyadi, during the 2nd annual media briefing at Force headquarters in Abuja, said the government was not in support of citizen self-defence as...

The Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has cautioned President Muhammadu Buhari against reinventing grazing reserves in Nigeria, saying open pastoralism is not in the interest of even the Fulani herdsmen. Speaking at the 63rd Birthday lecture of renowned journalist and author, Richard Akinnola, on Monday in Lagos, the governor said it was high time the country had a...

The National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF), an anti-Taliban resistance group, has declared that it is prepared to fight the armed gang which has taken control of the country. Taliban took control of Kabul, Afghanistan capital, on August 15 following the withdrawal of US troops and subsequent escape of the country’s president. The armed group is currently working towards forming the...

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has accused the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari of a hidden agenda to fulanise Nigeria. He alleged that the president was in support of the activities of Fulani herdsmen who were terrorizing citizens, and killing people in efforts to chase them from their ancestral lands. The governor spoke on Tuesday during an interview on Channels...

Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina State has explained why he asked the people of the state to arm themselves against bandits terrorizing them across the state. According to him, despite the state government’s effort towards protecting the citizens, hardly a day passes without innocent people getting killed by bandits or abducted. His call for self protection came in the wake...

A chieftain of the All progressives Congress (APC) and a Special Adviser to Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Drainage and Sewage, Joe Igbokwe, has raised the alarm over alleged threats to his life amidst a recent ban from visiting the South-East by members of the proscribed Igbo separatist group, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Igbokwe, who has been a...

Northern Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has criticised politicians for their display of wealth amid the widespread poverty in the country during the wedding of President Muhammadu Buhari’s son, Yusuf, in Kano State. Gumi, who stated this during a sermon at the Sultan Bello Mosque in Kaduna on Sunday, likened the politicians to bandits stating both have taken advantage of...

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has threatened legal action against President Muhammadu Buhari if he decides to implement the Grazing Reserve Policy. President Buhari had, last week, approved recommendations of a committee to review “with dispatch,” 368 grazing sites, across 25 states in the country, “to determine the levels of encroachment.” The president’s directive followed his approval of the recommendations...

There is anxiety in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the crisis bedeviling it is worsening ahead of the party’s national convention. The current wave of uncertainty and anxiety in the party is sequel to the decision of the embattled national chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, not to leave office in October. Multiple sources in the party confided in our correspondent yesterday...