The President of the Senate Ahmad Lawan, has expressed dismay over the killing of a motor driver at Garin Alkali in Bursari Local Government of Yobe State. The incident ignited violent protests in the neighbouring town of Gashua, the headquarters of Bade Local Government on Saturday.A statement by Ola Awoniyi the special adviser to Lawan expressed sympathy with the family of the victim.Lawn in the statement called for a thorough investigation into the incident with a view to bringing whoever has a hand in the killing to book. “I am deeply saddened by the tragic news at Garin Alkali on…
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Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has directed immediate and full investigation into the killing of a motorcycle rider and the burning of the Old Police Barracks in Kabba town, Kabba Bunu Local Government Area of the state. Recall there was pandemonium in the Kabba town, as aAngry youths had stormed the streets following the alleged killing of a young motorcycle rider by security operatives. The angry youths burnt the old Kabba Police Barracks following the incident. The governor called on the youths in Kabba to remain calm and allow investigation into the matter for necessary action. The governor described…
The Association of Ebonyi State Indigenes in the Diaspora (AESID) has asked the Inspector General of Police Usman Alkali Baba, to sack the Ebonyi state Commissioner of Police Aliyu Garba for his inability to curtail the activities of “illegal Ebubeagu security outfit terrorizing innocent citizens of the state.”The Ebonyi indigenes in diaspora also called on the IGP and the Nigerian government to arrest the Ebubeagu members, disarm and disband the group for “terrorising Ebonyians.”In a statement signed Sunday and made available to newsmen in Abuja by AESID’s President Ambassador Paschal Oluchukwu, alleged of persistent attacks being unleashed against dissenting and…
The Gbagada Jasmine Lions Club has reached out to 200 underprivileged families with food and other palliative measures to alleviate hunger.The programme, “Lion Club feed the hungry” was held last Saturday at Ilaje community in Bariga, Lagos in partnership with Honeywell PLCThe president, Lion Ada Okorie who spoke to our correspondent shortly after the programme said that the project was in line with Lions Club International 5 Global Causes .”Moreso, the project is aimed at actualising my promise at the commencement of the Lion year last July” and during my installation as the 8th President of Gbagada Jasmine Lions Club,…
The African Diaspora Development Institute (ADDI) and a Nigerian firm on the aiges of International Property Investment and Development (IPIAD) have embarked on a journey to bring back home descendants of Africans that were sold into slavery all over the world. To this end, plans are on the way to develop a-major 5-star mixed-use business, leisure and historical destination resort city project Rivers state. The project being championed by IPIAD, a historical tourism development firm, ADDI and other foreign partners is aim to attract back home African Americans who want to relocate to Nigeria or re-discover their ancestral roots, families,…
The South-south Emerging Leaders’ Forum (SELF) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to sustain his anti-corruption policy by supporting a corruption-free aspirant among all the contenders for the position of national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The forum said President Buhari’s major legacies after 2023 should include his successor and those that will emerge the leadership of his party are not indicted by any anti-corruption agency. In a statement Sunday in Abuja, national coordinator of the forum Barrister Preye Wilson, also challenged Northern political elites not to support a corrupt Southern politician as President Muhammadu Buhari’s successor. Barrister Wilson…
South South Youth Coalition and Northern Youth Alliance for Positive Change have declared their support for the presidential ambition of Senator Orji Uzor Kalu for 2023. A statement by officials of the groups entitled “TRANSFORMATION AGENDA FOR NIGERIANS 2023” issued after an enlarged meeting held in Benin City said the former Governor of Abia State was a better aspirant as they urged Nigerians to support him. According to the statement jointly signed by Comrade Solomon Okoduwa, Coordinator General South South Youth Coalition and Mr. Umar Yusuf, Coordinator General Northern Youth Coalition they agreed that it was time an Igbo man…
By Ahmed Rufa’i, Dutse Three children of same parents have drowned in a river at Gaduwa Kazamaki Fulani Settlement of Guri local government of Jigawa state. The children were reported missing after they went out with their family’s camels for grazing. The children it was gathered went to a river located at Kazamaki Village where they were drowned while attempting to swim. Confirming the incident the Jigawa state commissioner of police CP Aliyu Sale Tafida said, the command through its police Division in Guri local government received a report of the missing children on 20/10.2022. The commissioner who spoke through…
Apparently piqued by the theft of Anambra state resources, the Governor -elect, of the State, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, has taken a tough decision to put an end to all revenue window contracts in the state from the first day in office.Soludo also disclosed that he will use executive order to terminate such theft of the state’s resources by revenue thieves.The Governor elect spoke during a meeting with stakeholders at Agulu, Anaocha Local Government Area of the state on Saturday.He berated the state internally generated revenue boss, for allegedly distributing revenue windows to some people.“We learnt revenue windows are already being…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has maintained his earlier declaration that he will no longer engage in partisan politics.He spoke when national Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Iyorchia Ayu, led top leaders of the party to visit him.Obasanjo who was president on the platform of the party for two consecutive terms between 1999 and 2007 in Abeokuta said “I’m no longer in partisan politics and there is nothing that can bring me back. Anybody who wants my advice, I will always be there in the best interest of Nigeria.“Whatever I do in my own life…because I became president on the…