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Most international attention on Niger focuses on the Boko Haram conflict in the country’s east (Diffa region) and the Liptako-Gourma crisis in its west (Tillabéri and Tahoua regions). But the Maradi region, along Niger’s south-central border with Nigeria, is becoming another hotspot that could strain national efforts to curb insecurity. Since 2017, Maradi has been affected by the expansion of organised and violent banditry …

• Alerts to the resurgence of new Android Trojan apps The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has alerted telecoms consumers and members of the public to an ongoing cyber-vulnerability that allows a nearby hacker to unlock a vehicle, start the engine wirelessly and make away with the automobile. It said the fact that car remotes are categorised as short-range devices that make …

Gunmen have attacked three locations in Anambra state. The areas include: Ogidi headquarters of Idemili North local government area, Military checkpoint at the highbrow 3-3 Housing Estate in Onitsha and Eke Oko in Aguata local government area. The incidents occurred barely two days the Governor of the state, Chukwuma Chukwuma Soludo, visited the detained leader of the Indigenous People of …

A Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed May 24 for a definite hearing on a suit instituted against the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) by the Peoples Democratic Party on the controversial sections 84 (11) and (12) of the Electoral Act 2022. Justice Inyang Ekwo fixed the new date on Monday to enable Buhari and the PDP to …

• Sokoto schools to remain shut• Deborah’s parents: We can’t say anything, we have left all to God• Police deny report identifying the suspected killer as a foreigner• Ohanaeze Ndigbo, OPC, and others condemn the destruction of Igbo property, charge northern leaders to halt Sokoto mayhem• Blasphemy: Withdraw from Inter-Religious Council, northern CAN tell Christian leaders• TEKAN demands justice for slain …

• Amaechi promises to resign today, says rail project will be continued by colleagues • Buhari’s adviser on power joins Jigawa guber race• Confusion as el-Rufai presents Amaechi to Kaduna APC delegates as Buhari’s financier  The last of the controversial Section 84(12) of the Electoral Amendment Act 2022 has not been heard as it emerged yesterday that President Muhammadu Buhari and the …

BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON Benin City, Nigeria – Edo State Commissioner of Police (CP) Abutu Yaro has appealed to the general public to be calm as police have begun investigation into a mob action in which a criminal suspect was allegedly burnt alive in Auchi town last weekend. Auchi is the administrative headquarters of Etsako West Local Government Area of the …

Controversial Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has faulted those of the school of thought that killing is the punishment for blasphemy, saying Prophet Muhammad never killed for blasphemy during his time despite insults from his critics. Gumi stated this during his religious teaching class in his Kaduna Juma’at mosque, according to PRNigeria. He said if the Prophet refrained from killing …

Abdulfatai Olagunju, a rusticated student of the University of Ilorin, Kwara State, who was arrested by the police, tells TUNDE OYEKOLA of the PUNCH newspaper, that he is a member of the Eiye Confraternity and recounts some of his exploits What can you tell us about yourself? I am Abdulfatai Olagunju Tijani Ifeanyi. I’m from Erin-Ile in the Oyun Local …

Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has seized 203, 879 tablets of various pharmaceutical opioids and illicit substances in raids across Abia, Kaduna, Yobe and Kogi States. The NDLEA said this in a statement by its Spokesperson, Mr Fem Babafemi, on Sunday in Abuja, according to the News Agency of Nigeria. Babafemi said that the agency also foiled fresh …