The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has called for the overhaul of the nation’s security infrastructure to end the prevailing insurgency in the land, maintaining that the current strength of the military could not defeat the Boko Haram sect. It, therefore, ...
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EFCC renews ties with military to battle oil thieves in Niger Delta region
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said it is renewing partnerships with the navy and the army to battle oil thieves and pirates in the Niger Delta. The Port Harcourt Zonal Head of the anti-graft agency, Usman Imam, ...
Read More »Gunmen abduct Edo monarch’s wife, daughter
Unknown gunmen have kidnapped wife of the Onojie of Ewatto Kingdom in Esan South East Council Area of Edo State, His Royal Highness Ikhumhen 11, Queen Florence Ikhumhen, alongside one of her daughters. The queen, who recently retired from the ...
Read More »Ogoni cleanup mismanaged via jettisoning of emergency measures, says MOSOP
FACTIONAL president of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Fegalo Nsuke, has alleged the mismanagement of the Ogoni cleanup, insisting that the ‘jettisoning of the emergency measures of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) by the ...
Read More »IPOB threatens reprisals if security agents harass members at Kanu’s parents’ burial
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has cautioned that members of the group would retaliate should security agencies exhibit any traces of brutality during the burial of the late Eze Israel Okwu Kanu and his wife, Ugoeze Sally Mmeme at ...
Read More »Edo govt condemns violence, says bomb explosion, others plot to distabilise state
The Edo State Government has faulted claims that Governor Godwin Obaseki was behind the political violence that resulted in the bombing of residences of perceived political opponents within the state’s All Progressives Congress (APC). Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Paul ...
Read More »Creation of Operation Shege Ka Fasa polarises Arewa youths as group seeks amnesty for bandits, kidnappers
Members of the Joint Action Committee of Northern Youth Associations (JACNYA) have cautioned some Arewa youths over their comments against the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Abubakar Sa’ad and other Northern elders who recently criticised the inauguration of Operation Shege Ka ...
Read More »At Calabar event, NGO lists major obstacle to effective criminal justice law
A NON-GOVERNMENTAL organisation (NGO), Clean Foundation, has picked the police force as a major hindrance to the effective implementation of the Admission of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) 2015. During a two day workshop for officers of the Nigeria Police Force ...
Read More »EFCC levels fresh charges against Mohammed Adoke over Malabu oil deal
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday arraigned former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke (SAN), before Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja on a fresh seven-count charge revolving around money ...
Read More »Police kill two terrorists, lose officer during raid, arrest three bandits, recover arms
The police have killed two wanted commanders of the Ansaru Terror Group but lost one inspector, Mohammed Abubakar, attached to the Police Special Forces during Wednesday’s operation at Kuduru forest, Birnin-Gwari in Kaduna State. According to the police, 13 other officers ...
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