Two persons have been reportedly killed in Oriuzo, Ezza North local government area of Ebonyi state over an alleged political differences. One Shedrak Nwode from Umuezoha, alongside a girl said to be his girlfriend was allegedly shot dead by the Coordinator of Ezza North East development centre, Ikechukwu Nwafor, an appointee of Ebonyi state governor […]
The federal government has raised the number of beneficiaries of National Social Investment Programmes, NSIP, to accommodate more people. Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, who disclosed this Monday, at a ministerial press conference in Abuja, said President Muhammadu Buhari raised the number of the beneficiaries of the programme […]
Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant, Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, has come out to defend his statement where he said that the 43 slain farmers did not get military clearance before farming on the area. Hours after he spoke with BBC, Shehu began to trend online; his statement went viral with many Nigerians […]
….…One of them, a Condemned Prisoner snatched a vehicle 30 minutes after, sold it in Kaduna & snatched another car in Kaduna. The Police at Force headquarters on Monday paraded 34 suspected criminals including five escapee prisoners who escaped from the Oko Correctional Center in Benin when hoodlums hiding under the ENDSARS protests broke the […]
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State , on Monday , appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to sustain the policy on the ban of rice importation and not succumb to any pressure . The governor made the appeal in Makurdi when the Minister of Information and Culture , Alhaji Lai Mohammed, paid him a courtesy visit […]
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday urged Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to end fighting, voicing concern as a military offensive pursued the Tigray region’ s dissident leaders . Pompeo in a phone call with Abiy “ called for a complete end to the fighting and constructive dialogue to resolve the crisis , […]
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday , said he has directed the nation ’ s Armed Forces to take the anti -terrorism fight to the insurgents. According to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity , Garba Shehu, the President disclosed this in a message he sent through his Chief of Staff […]
Three men in a kidnap gang have been sentenced to death by hanging for the 2016 kidnap of two reverend sisters. They were among seven suspects—including a couple—arraigned for the kidnap of Reverend Sisters Perpetua Idowu Apo and Bukola Roseline Familade, along with their driver Yohanna Zibai, at Onipetesi along Ore-Lagos expressway in 2016. They […]
The United States Government has condemned the killing of not less than 43 rice farmers in Borno State. Mission in Nigeria on Monday commiserated with the families of the deceased, stating further that it would continue to support the Nigerian Government to bring the perpetrators of the act to justice. “The United States condemns in […]
Four persons have been reportedly shot dead in Oriuzo, and Onueke in Ezza North and Ezza South Local Government Areas of Ebonyi following a renewed clash between two rival cult groups. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the clash was between members of Ayez and Barga confraternities. One of the victims identified as […]
