A Yoruba socio-cultural group, Apapo O’odua Koya, (AOKOYA), has alleged that dozens of Yoruba and Igbo youths were about being framed up by the police high command with kidnappings. It claimed that the force was deploying its covert code-name ‘Operation ...
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Jukun women in Taraba protest against spouses’ killings by suspected Tiv militias, group clears Benue indigenes of wrongdoing
Jukun women took to the streets of Donga in Donga Local Council of Taraba State to protest against the incessant killings by suspected Tiv militias of their spouses. During a march to the palace of the first class traditional ruler ...
Read More »Centre accuses foreign media of promoting insurgency in Nigeria
The Centre for Social Justice, Equality and Transparency has accused foreign media outfits of promoting the activities of the terrorists in Nigeria. In a report presented in Abuja by its Executive Director, Isaac Ikpa, the group revealed that in the ...
Read More »Ignore terrorists’ panic claims in Lake Chad, military advises Nigerians
The Nigerian Army has urged the public to disregard the claims by Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) that it had captured military personnel and equipment in Lake Chad region. In a statement yesterday in Maiduguri, Borno State, spokesman of ...
Read More »President Buhari commends Ecobank’s financial inclusion drive, support for SMEs
President Muhammadu Buhari has commended Ecobank for its various initiatives targeted at promoting financial inclusion in the country, noting that it is key to the government’s diversification agenda. Buhari spoke when the Board of Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI) visited him ...
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