As June 12 commemoration of Democracy Day approaches, the Inspector General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, has directed Zonal Assistant Inspectors General of Police and Commissioners of Police in states and FCT to deal firmly with any person or group who may want to take advantage of the event to threaten internal security order. Speaking during a meeting with …
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Indeed, Nigeria is passing through a perilous time in her 60 years of existence. Nobody, not even the ‘seers’ that flood the space with prophecies, ever imagined the nation will deteriorate to this stage where animals are valued more than humans; at least animals are killed with good reasons unlike humans nowadays. Only Chinua Achebe foresaw it a bit in his …
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Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has described as unacceptable, a situation in Ambrose Alli University, where an association of “Esan Professors and those of Afemai Professors” has run aground the ivory tower. Obaseki, therefore reassured that his government will ensure the restructuring of the state-owned University to meet global standards and attract foreign partnership. The Governor who spoke to …
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The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan has disclosed that the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, which has been 20 years in making, will be passed before the end of June 2021. Lawan who made this disclosure at the opening of the 2021 Nigeria International Petroleum Summit, NIPS, in Abuja on Monday, said the joint committee of the Senate and the House of …
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Women farmers have called on the Plateau Government to implement its Gender Equal Opportunity Law (GEOL), to address discrimination against women in land inheritance. Mrs Jessica Vonkat, Coordinator of Country Women Association in Nigeria (COWAN), Plateau branch, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Jos. NAN reports that Plateau is the …
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The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has ordered all broadcasting stations in Nigeria to suspend the use of the popular microblogging platform, Twitter. This was contained in a statement issued by its Director General, Armstrong Idachaba, on Monday morning. Mr Idachaba said television and radio stations are advised to de-install twitter handles and “desist from using twitter as a source (UGC) of information …
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At least six bodies were seen in a video of the attack in Igangan, Oyo State. Igangan, a southern Oyo town that shot to prominence amid Yoruba-Fulani tensions early this year, came under a night attack, leaving several persons dead and properties razed. Still and motion pictures obtained by PREMIUM TIMES depict severely hacked and bloodied human bodies, apparently attacked …
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A chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party and member of the Historical Society of Nigeria, Dr Umar Ardo, tells JESUSEGUN ALAGBE he believes Fulani herdsmen attacks and banditry can end by July if the Federal Government applies the Fulani psychology of ‘Pulaku’ on the perpetrators In a viral video clip last week, the Deputy Chief Imam of the National Mosque, Abuja, …
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The body of one of the abducted Islamic children, who died in captivity, has been discovered, the Nation learnt on Sunday. The three-year-old was one of the 156 children abducted from the Salihu Tanko Islamic School in Tegina a week ago. The body of the child was discovered a few kilometres away from Tegina town. The father of one of …
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Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, yesterday, insisted that President Muhammadu Buhari should tender an apology to Ndigbo for the civil war contentions against Southeast, noting that Igboland will never be destroyed twice. In a statement in Abakaliki, the Secretary-General of Ohanaeze, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, said President Buhari should show Igbo love and not war threats by repeating the episode of the civil war experience, which …
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