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According to the Presidency, the IGP has ordered the arrest of Igboho over the incident that transpired in Ibarapa last Friday. If there is anything that is a consensus in Nigeria today, it is the security challenges rocking every part of the nation. People wake up every day doubting their existence for another 24 hours because of insecurity perpetrated by …

In this interview with a popular broadcaster, Kola Olootu, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, speaks on why he gave a quit order to killer herdsmen in the Ibarapa area of Oke Ogun, Oyo State. WALE OYEWALE, who monitored the interview online, brings the excerpts We heard that you have been arrested, is that true? God forbid. You were seen …

(CNN) Larry King, the longtime CNN host who became an icon through his interviews with countless newsmakers and his sartorial sensibilities, has died. He was 87. King hosted “Larry King Live” on CNN for over 25 years, interviewing presidential candidates, celebrities, athletes, movie stars and everyday people. He retired in 2010 after taping more than 6,000 episodes of the show. …

Edo State Government and the Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP) have concluded plans for the procurement and installation of Hydromet Flood Early Warning System, Automatic and Manual Weather Stations and DCP-Data Collection Platform for River Gauging in Edo State. Edo State Project Coordinator of NEWMAP, Dr. Tom Obaseki, in a publication for bid made available to journalists in Benin City, noted that …

Edo State Skills Development Agency (EdoJobs) in partnership with Azura Power Plc has trained youths in the state on welding, cassava production, ruminant animal rearing, fashion design and phone repairs and maintenance to equip the youths with trade skills for self-reliance and improve their livelihood. Managing Director of EdoJobs, Ukinebo Dare, during the flag-off of the training session, said that …

Watchers of the media spectrum in Edo state have held that the practice of briefing ‘selected’ journalists by a forward-looking government as that of Edo goes against the grain of fairness, objectivity and balance, rights group, Civil Empowerment & Rule of Law Support Initiative (CERLSI) has told Governor Godwin Obaseki. CERLSI therefore urged the governor to reform processes linked to …

The Senator representing Ogun West Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Tolu Odebiyi, has asked the Federal Government, military, and the police authorities to probe the alleged harassment of his constituents by soldiers and Fulani herdsmen. There were media reports on Saturday that Fulani herdsmen allegedly engaged the services of some soldiers to beat up farmers in some communities in …

The police say ‘Rescue Me’ app’ will aid timely arrival of officers at crime scenes anywhere in Nigeria. The Nigerian police have introduced a software, ‘rescue me app,’ to aid the timely arrival of officers at crime scenes anywhere in Nigeria. The commissioner of police in Jigawa State, Usman Gonna, told reporters that the police developed the application to tackle insecurity through …

Residents, Obas, and some monarchs of Ketu-speaking villages in Yewa North Local Government Area, Ogun State have lamented that they were brutalised by soldiers who escorted herdsmen to graze in their communities. In separate interviews with The Nation, the residents narrated that the soldiers, numbering about 10, flogged them for daring to prevent the herders from grazing. It was learnt that …

(CNN) President Joe Biden spent his first week in office trying to convince the nation to see themselves not as Democrats or Republicans, but as Americans united in defeating the pandemic. Then on Friday night, the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump got a formal date on the calendar, complicating every bipartisan goal on the new President’s agenda.After four exhausting years of Trump that …