“Saudi police say a retired security official has been shot and killed in the kingdom’s south as the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a shooting there.” Source: Retired Saudi security official killed as IS claims shooting
One Eze Stephen of Ojiogu village, Ukwuagba- Ngbo community in Ohaukwu local government area of Ebonyi state has been beheaded in the lingering communal war between the people of Ngbo community and the neighbouring Agila community, Ado local government area of Benue State. Similarly, one Nwede Augustine was also kidnapped when unknown gunmen reportedly from…
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A man has been arrested by the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps in Borno State for allegedly defrauding Internally Displaced Persons in the state to the tune of N2.7m. The Corps State Commandant, Alhaji Abdullahi Ibrahim, said the suspect was arrested while selling fake forms to some IDPs in Maiduguri, claiming to use the
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Political manoeuvring engineered by the Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, led to the appointment of a former Governor of Borno State, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff as the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Abuja on Tuesday, investigations by our correspondents have revealed. His emergence was, however, received with discordant tunes from
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British police have arrested a 16-year-old for allegedly leaking personal information belonging to 9,000 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees and 20,000 FBI employees…….
Mixed reactions have continued to trail the recent amnesty given to some cattle rustlers by Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State. A group under the aegis of Concerned Indigenous People of Kano (CIPK) on Tuesday described the action as “encouraging criminality in the State.” A press statement signed by its Chairman, Mallam Bashir Shuaibu Kiru, […]
Ganduje encouraging criminality by granting cattle rustlers amnesty – Group
Cameroonian Communication Minister, Issa Bakary, said on Tuesday that Cameroonian and Nigerian troops have taken a key base of Boko Haram in northern Nigeria, killing 162 insurgents. He said in Yaounde that the assault against the insurgents in Goshe, near the Cameroonian border, lasted from Thursday to Sunday. Bakary said the allied troops destroyed four […]
A new kind of leadership that builds bridges, keeps in touch with the people while offering a new way of thinking has been recommended for leaders in different areas of the Nigerian nation. Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, expressed this view on Tuesday while receiving the new Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja […]
Osinbajo calls for new leadership thinking as Ooni visits Aso Rock
Community members worry that the women and girls, many of whom were raped, have been radicalized and might try to recruit for the militant group.
He appealed to Nigerians to claim ownership of the war against insurgence and give soldiers fighting in the North-east the needed morale boost through their support and useful information.
