Paramount ruler of Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State, Bra Nggwe Rigwe, His Royal Highness Rev. Ronku Aka, said he lost over 600,000 of his subjects in the last 20 years. The people, he said, were lost to several and incessant attacks by Fulani herdsmen. The monarch spoke yesterday in his palace at Miango […]
Boko Haram recruited three local gangs in northwest Nigeria to kidnap hundreds of schoolboys on its behalf, security and local sources said Wednesday. The jihadist group has claimed responsibility for Friday’s attack, which targeted a secondary school in the town of Kankara, in Katsina state. But sources told AFP the operation was carried out on […]
About 5000 people are said to be homeless while 30 others have been abducted and two killed in the last one week in Niger East Senatorial District. The event, according to the Senator representing the district at the senate, Senator Muhammed Sani Musa, has raised tension and uncertainties in the minds of the people more […]
The Nigeria Union of Agriculture and Allied Employees (NUAAE), has urged the Federal Government of Nigeria to intensify efforts in flushing out the insurgents in the North East to stop further killings of farmers in the region and sections of the country. The Chairman of NUAAE in Bayelsa State, Comrade John Bipre Ndiomu, also described […]
Shehu Sani, a former senator, has faulted the federal government for “failing to effectively manage” a central database linking information of all Nigerians. Sani said while the government is asking citizens to update their SIM card registration with their national identification number (NIN), those whose data have been captured in the official database are kidnap […]
The President, Vision Africa International and Co-Chair Interfaith Dialogue Forum for Peace, Bishop Dr. Sunday Ndukwo Onuoha, has advised the National Assembly to shutdown proceedings in protest of the deteriorating security situations in the country. Speaking on Wednesday in Umuahia, the Abia State Capital, Bishop, Dr. Onuoha, said the only way the National Assembly can […]
Gunmen on Tuesday night killed three people in Agboughul community of Makurdi metropolis in Benue state. Daily Trust reports that the decessed are; Barrister Moses Udam, his wife, Nkechi and a blind octogenarian, Nyikyor Mazugu as well as three others who sustained gun wound and are now being treated in the hospital. Witnesses said the […]
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) on Wednesday declared that the Military was not part of the purported onging negotiation with the abductors of the Students of the Governmenent Science Secondary School in Kankara Local Government Area of Kastina State. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations (DMO), Major General John Eneche made the clarification in Abuja while briefing […]
Zamfara State Government has closed down 10 boarding schools in the state to prevent possible abduction of students by bandits . Speaking to journalists in a press conference on Tuesday, the Commissioner of Education , Dr. Ibrahim Abdullahi , said the schools would remain closed until the security improves . The affected schools , according […]
The National leadership of Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), has expressed dismay over the re-emerging incidence of school invasion and abduction of teachers and students across the country’s educational institutions. In a statement on Tuesday, signed by NUT’s Secretary General, Dr Mike Ike Ene, the union unequivocally called on the federal, states and local government […]
