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Boko Haram insurgents and unidentified gunmen have gone on a killing and kidnapping spree in various parts of Nigeria this weekend, killing at least five persons and abducting no less than 40 men and women. Boko Haram fighters killed five persons and abducted at least 30 women when they attacked Kwapre, a village in Hong […]

  The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested an intending air passenger, Okonkwo Chimezie Henry, who wraps of cocaine worth N423 million.   NDLEA arrested Okonkwo at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos on Easter Day, Sunday, 4th April, 2021, where he was headed for Madrid, Spain.   Following his arrest, he […]

Northerners living in Imo State have been assured of their safety and stay in the state by the governor, Hope Uzodinma.  The governor gave the assurance when he met with the leaders of the Northern community who paid him a solidarity visit in Owerri, and also to ask for the governor’s support in view of […]

Gan Allah Fulani Development Association of Nigeria has demanded compensation of Sarikin Fulani Igangan, Alh Salihu AbdulKadir, who was displaced from Igangan in Ibarapa North Local Government Area of Oyo State. The association also called on the Federal and Oyo State governments to ensure the return of the displaced leader to Igangan. The association asked […]

The South-East region on Sunday announced the has launched its own joint security outfit codenamed EBUBEAGU. Imo State Government disclosed this on its official Twitter handle  “South-East Governors set up the South-East joint security outfit code named EBUBEAGU,” the tweet read. The announcement came after governors and stakeholders of the region held a security meeting […]

Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, who is on a medical check-up, has said he is taking “a short rest” in London. This was disclosed on Thursday in a statement issued by Buhari’s  Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu. Garba said that President Buhari disclosed this in a letter he wrote to the King […]

Africa needs around $12bn to procure and distribute sufficient numbers of Covid-19 vaccines to achieve adequate protection against the virus, the World Bank and IMF said in a report at their virtual Spring meetings this week.  The sum is about the same as the total official debt service payments deferred by 45 of the world’s […]

Twenty newly established private universities, including James Hope University owned by Dr. Jim Ovia, founder of Zenith Bank, have been given their provisional licenses. The licenses were given by the National Universities Commission, which regulates university education in Nigeria. This has raised the number of private universities in the country to 99, according to the […]

The Nigerian Army says it has lost one officer ad 10 soldiers who were killed in an ambush attack by unknown gunmen in Benue State. A statement by the Army said the soldiers had initially been declared missing after they failed to return from a routine assignment, but days after, their bodies were found at […]

Zamfara State Governor Bello Mohammed Matawalle, who is almost on his way out of the People’s Democratic Party, as he is being wooed by the ruling All Progressives Congress, has warned that the North might retaliate attacks on northerners in the south. In a statement he signed by himself, Matawalle noted that the northerners’ lives, […]

Hope Uzodimma, the governor of Imo Governor, has blamed “aggrieved” politicians for the spate of attacks on police facilities in his state, vowing to expose them shortly. The governor’s words were not enough to stop the attacks, as gunmen in the early hours of Thursday, attacked another police state in Imo, set detainees free, and […]

The Federal Government has said that the National Sports Festival holding in Benin City, Edo State, continues as planned. This nullifies an earlier announcement by the Local Organising Committee late Wednesday that the festival would be coming to an abrupt end by midday Thursday (today) due to lack of funds. The announcement that the festival […]