The family house of Gershom Bassey, senator representing Calabar-south, was on Saturday invaded by thugs. The hoodlums looted items from the building located in Calabar, the state capital, after which they set the house ablaze. Videos of the incident circulating online show some men making away with mattresses, television sets, a chair and gas cylinder […]
Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong has again imposed a 24 hour curfew in Jos South and Jos North Local Government Areas of Plateau State with effect from 4pm on Saturday 24 October, 2020 following the looting of warehouses by suspected hoodlums. Lalong in a press statement said the reinstatement of the earlier relaxed curfew in […]
Akwa Ibom State Government has undertaken a spontaneous and proactive on-the-spot assessment of properties vandalized in Uyo, the state capital as an aftermath of the #EndSARS protest. The Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Comrade Ini Ememobong who led the Government delegation on the inspection said, the exercise is to give the team a first hand […]
A coalition of nine renegade militant groups in the Niger-Delta region has declared support for the raging EndSARS protests across the country, saying they were ready to resume hostilities, attack oil and gas facilities if Federal Government did not meet the demands of protesting Nigerian youths. The militant groups under the aegis of the Reformed […]
The First Lady , Aisha Buhari , on Saturday tweeted a song from an indigenous Hausa musician sending a plea to President Muhammadu Buhari to rescue the northern region from the ravaging insecurity. The 22- second music video , whose singer could not yet be ascertained, shows the images of four military chiefs and the […]
The Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested the organisers of the protest against “insecurity and bad governance”. In a statement on Saturday, Abdulazeez Suleiman, spokesman of Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG), said the arrested persons were invited to the office of the secret police for questioning but detained afterwards. He identified those arrested as […]
The Coalition of Civil Society Organisations has kicked against the renewed calls by some North-East elders for the sack of Service Chiefs in the wake of recent nationwide #EndSARS protest by some youths. The Head of the Coalition, Mr Shina Loremikan, spoke against the call at a media briefing in Lagos on Friday. The News […]
SECURITY has been beefed up at Wurma community in Kurfi Local Government Area of Katsina State following the murder of 11 people alleged to be bandits by local volunteers known as Yan -Sakai. The victims , who were all youths and believed to be Fulani , were reportedly murdered by the local volunteers on Monday […]
A security guard with the Federal University of Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), Mr Matthew Malik, has been killed by unknown gunmen. The body of the 62-year-old man was said to have been found on his farm on Thursday in Oye-Ekiti, Oye Local Government Area of the state. Son of the deceased, John Malik, who spoke with newsmen […]
Members of the Coalition of Concern Northern Elders for Peace and Development on Monday expressed concern over the continued silence of President Muhammadu Buhari to the growing calls for him to rejig the security architecture in the country . According to them , the resolutions of the National Assembly that the President should act swiftly […]
