And this is saying a lot considering that, just a few weeks prior, it had also invaded the Federal Government College of Buni Yadi, Yobe State, and brutally slaughtered fifty-nine students, all boys. Since 2014, the Chibok abduction saga has gone through more twists and turns than can be fitted into a feature-length movie, a […]
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Atiku planning to declare himself President, FG alleges
Information and Culture Minister, Lai Mohammed, stated this while addressing journalists in Abuja on Thursday, April 11, 2019. The Minister accused Atiku of plotting to replicate the “Venezuelan model in Nigeria“. Venezuelan model Two weeks after President Nicolas Maduro was sworn in to a second six-year term, leader of the legislature, Juan Guaido, declared himself […]
Zamfara Killings: Senate to make N10b available as intervention fund for affected communities
This decision was taken following a motion sponsored by Kabiru Marafa (APC, Zamfara Central) representing Zamfara central. At the start of plenary, Marafa was reported to have presented a motion on “the need to create an intervention fund to cater for Internally Displaced Persons and other persons affected by the activities of armed bandits in […]
Buhari wants grazing routes restored for herdsmen to end crisis
The struggle for access and control of lands over which roaming herdsmen graze their cattle has led to conflict with local farmers all over the country, resulting in the death of hundreds with herders blamed for a majority of the attacks. Armed conflicts between both sides have also been coloured by ethnic and religious sentiments […]
Fashola orders suspension of work on National Housing Project, Gwagwalada
Fashola gave the order during the inspection of the ongoing Abuja Mass Housing project in Gwagwalada, on Monday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) had written “Stop Work Inscriptions’’ on buildings at the construction site. He said the suspension became necessary in order to settle any development […]
‘Senseless killings in Nigeria makes me unhappy’ Buhari reacts to Zamfara crisis
There has been an increase in the rate of crises in states like Zamafara and Kaduna and the crises have led to the destruction of properties and lost of lives in those states. Reacting tothe killings in Zamfara and his alleged indifference to insecurity issues in the country, Buhari in a statement by Garba Shehu, […]
Pulse Explainer: Here’s all you need to know about Zamfara killings
The bandits raze markets and homes and kill villagers indiscriminately. This piece explains how Zamfara, with a population of over three million inhabitants, has become a killing field of some sort. Blood Gold Nigeria has untapped deposits of mineral resources spread across its 36 states. Some of these untapped minerals are zinc, tin and gold. […]
Simi goes hard against Yahoo boys, tells them to stop buying her music
In a live Instagram video, the soft-spoken singer criticized internet fraudsters after a fan told her to leave Yahoo boys alone because most of them are the ones buying her songs and watching her videos on Youtube. Simi then went on to tell yahoo boys that if that’s what anyone is going to use to […]
“Police must defend us, not kill us,” Femi Kuti blows hot on reform
He said this while addressing the media at the New Afrika Shrine, Lagos where a protest against Police brutality took place on Friday, April 5, 2019. The protest was in reaction to the fatal shooting of Kolade Johnson, a 36-year-old who was killed on Sunday, March 31, 2019 when the Special Anti-Cultism Squad (SACS) of […]
Sanwo-Olu visits Parents of slain Kolade Johnson, condemns extra judicial killings
Sanwo-Olu who condemned extra judicial killings of any type in Lagos and Nigeria as a whole on Saturday afternoon when he visited the parents of the late Johnson, who was allegedly killed by men of the Anti-cultism unit of the State Police Command said he will work with the security agencies to ensure avoidable death […]