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The Kaduna State government on Sunday night confirmed the killing of Capt. Abdulkarim Ibn Na’Allah, the son of the Senator representing Kebbi South Senatorial District, Bala Na’Allah. The deceased, a trained pilot, was killed by suspected bandits at his Malali residence in the Government Reservation Area (GRA), Kaduna North local government area of the state. The state’s Commissioner for Internal Security...

The federal government on Sunday berated the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) for giving it 21 days as an ultimatum to resolve the industrial dispute between it, resident doctors and other affiliated unions of the association. The NMA had on Saturday in a communiqué issued at the end of its NEC meeting, which was signed by its president, Prof. Innocent Ujah...

The 27th of August every year is special to Abia and Abians as it is was the day the labours of the founding fathers of Abia state yielded fruit, the day Abia was created out of the old Imo State. Just like yesterday and to the glory of God, Abia is already 30 with Several milestones as achievements and not...

Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State on Wednesday explained the reasons the state’s residents did not comply with the sit-at-home order by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra’s (IPOB). The governor said only a constituted authority like his government could give order on when people should stay away from their work or businesses. Uzodinma spoke while fielding questions from State House reporters...

More than 20 corpses were on Wednesday dumped at the main gate of Plateau State Government House following an attack on Yelwan Zangam village in Jos North Local Government Area of the state. The protest by hundreds of angry youths was the aftermath of Tuesday’s night attack on Yelwan Zangam, a community inhabited by the Anaguta ethnic group in the...

The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Lucky Irabor, has said the Army would engage retired military officers to tackle insecurity in the northeast. He disclosed this on Tuesday at a one-day interactive session with retired senior officers from the north-eastern zone held at the 23 Armoured Brigade in Yola, Adamawa State. “It is part of the reason why I am...

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...