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The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Mathew Kukah, on Sunday said President Buhari has destroyed every aspect of life in Nigeria but has allowed corruption to thrive and grow. “With everything literally broken down, our country has become one big emergency national hospital with full occupancy,” the Bishop said in an Easter message to his congregation in Sokoto and shared with …

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently review and withdraw the pardon granted to former governors of Plateau and Taraba States, Senator Joshua Dariye, and Rev Jolly Nyame, respectively, who are serving jail terms for corruption. SERAP also urged Buhari to “propose constitutional amendment to the National Assembly to reform the provisions on the …

Terrorists have turned Kaduna State into a war zone and made travelling between the state and Abuja a nightmare with impudent attacks on road, rail and air facilities. Terrorists have turned Kaduna State into a war zone and made travelling between the state and Abuja a nightmare with impudent attacks on road, rail and air facilities. The growing infamy of …

• Corruption Responsible For Alarming Rate Of Insecurity — Religious Leaders• APC Administration Can’t Improve Situation, We Must Choose Wisely In 2023 – Bishop Oke• Leaders’ Insincerity, Inaction Have Damaged Citizens – Badejo• Lead In Fear Of God, Egbunu Charges Politicians• Govs Call For Prayers To Steer Nation Back To Peace, Prosperity• Say Only Divine Intervention Can Save Nation From Hardship …

Manning checkpoints and patrolling towns and cities: the reservists of Ukraine’s territorial defence force are the last line standing between ordinary civilians and Russian troops. Standing 2.07 metres (six feet 9.5 inches) and dressed in camouflage fatigues that reveal only his eyes under a hood, “Buffalo” quit his job in construction and signed up for the force when the Russians …

President Muhammadu Buhari has granted state pardon to Enitan Ransome-Kuti, the former military Commander of the Multinational Joint Task Force, who was convicted by a Special Court Martial in January 2015. Mr Ransome-Kuti is a son of the late human rights activist, Beko Ransome-Kuti, and a nephew of the late Afrobeat maestro, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. The former military commander was among …

By Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku Abuja, Nigeria – Acting Force Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Adejobi Olumuyiwa has said that the police is planning to punish and hold DPOs and Commanders responsible for the misdeeds of their men. CSP Adejobi said that the move is to stop rampant cases of extortion, harassment and brutality in the Nigeria Police Force, NPF. “In …

Following Joint efforts by the Air Components of Operation Hadin Kai and Nigerien Air Force under the Multinational Joint Task Force, several key leaders of ISWAP in the Tunbuns including notorious Amir, Ibn Usman have been neutralized. Competent intelligence recently received has revealed that the joint air strikes undertaken on Friday 14 April 2022 at Tumbun Rego and a training …

Tragedy struck at Claratian University of Nigeria, Nekede, in Owerri, Imo State, on Friday, as a seminarian, Suel Ambrose, slumped and died while acting in a drama on campus. Our correspondent who visited the campus on Saturday morning was told by students that the deceased who hailed from Benue State was dramatising the role of the biblical Peter in the …

President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria has told presidential aspirants in the ruling All Progressives Congress to go to the field and sell their candidatures to the electorate, Saturday PUNCH has learnt. A Presidency source told one of PUNCH correspondents that Buhari did not ask any of those who consulted him to either run or drop their ambitions. Rather, the President …