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“If my brother says the North is going, be sure the middle-belt is not going with you. You are on your own. We have served and sacrificed for this country. The war that occurred, the Middle-belt was used to fight while the North sat back to enjoy. The non-Hausa speaking part of the North has suffered the most from Boko …

The sit-at-home directive by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) turned bloody yesterday in parts of the Southeast. No fewer than three policemen were found dead in Enugu State. Two suspected IPOB members were feared dead in Ebonyi State. Commercial activities were grounded in the five Southeast states as well as parts of Delta and Rivers states as residents …

•Say dialogue, restructuring only ways to address Nigeria’s challenges The leadership of major socio-cultural groups from Southern and Middle Belt part of Nigeria yesterday charted a new path for the emergence of a new constitution for Nigeria. Their proposals, made at a dialogue session christened, ‘The ‘Nigeria’s 2023 Presidential Transition Inter-ethnic Peace Dialogue,’ in Abuja, came against the backdrop of …

• HURIWA accuses security agents of selective killingsThe Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Major-General Farouk Yahaya, yesterday, said the military must develop novel plans, processes and strategies to meet the changing nature of the battle space. He also advocated strict adherence to traditions and doctrines to make the Nigerian military a more professional and formidable one that could meet the …

The cost of insecurity to the economy is much greater Last week revelation by the Presidential Economic Advisory Council (PEAC) that banditry, Boko Haram insurgency, farmer-herder’s conflict, separatist agitation, and other violent eruptions cost the nation a whopping sum of $10.3bn in 2020, has continued to elicit debate. Insecurity, according to the council, has crippled economic activities nationwide and contracted …

Scores of protesters yesterday took to the streets of Lagos to protest insecurity and high cost of living in the state. Falana and others during the process The protesters, led by Jaye Gaskiya, an activist, included human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana (SAN), and his son, Folarin. Others were trade unions, civil society, students, farmers …

The southern governors ban on open grazing is a legal decision informed by security threats Among the many resolutions passed by the Southern Governors Forum (SGF) which met recently at Asaba, Delta State, the presidency has deemed it fit to react only to the item dealing with the ban on open grazing. Although Forum Chairman, Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State …

Former Edo State governor, Mr Adams Oshiomhole and All Progressives Congress, APC, Edo State governorship candidate in the September 19, 2020 poll, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, have congratulated Governor Godwin Obaseki on his recent victory at the Supreme Court. Oshiomhole in a letter to  Obaseki by his media aide, Victor Oshioke, said: “Congratulations on your victory at the Supreme Court, which …

Edo State Government has expressed concern over 16,100 Nigerians killed annually by tobacco, calling for urgent measures and partnerships among relevant stakeholders to check its consumption and reduce the health and other risks associated with tobacco use. Permanent Secretary, Edo State Ministry of Health, Dr. Osamwonyi Irowa said this while briefing journalists in Benin City in commemoration of the World …

President Joe Biden commemorated those who died serving in the military in Memorial Day remarks at Arlington National Cemetery and urged Americans to honor the fallen by strengthening and protecting the nation’s democracy, the CNN reported today. “Democracy itself is in peril, here at home and around the world. What we do now — what we do now, how we …