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El Rufai gaffe on open grazing laws

Posted by admin Governors, Headlines, Kaduna, State News Sunday, October 3rd, 2021

BRIEFINGNOTES Following Governor Nasir el-Rufai’s recent statement that the anti-open grazing laws enacted by his southern colleagues are not implementable, Ejiofor Alike writes that it is only in a faulty federation that the head of one federating unit can make comments to demean the position of his colleagues and interfere in the laws made in […]

Kano Naval Base: Where Critics Got it Wrong

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Headlines, Kano, Navy, State News Saturday, October 2nd, 2021

Ali M. Ali I watched with growing consternation the opposition to the establishment of a Naval ‘base’’ in Kano. The decision followed the approval by the Navy Council to establish three such bases in Lekki, Oguta and Kano. The one in Kano appears to be the one causing bellyache. It has raised a lot of […]

Kwara Leaders Recommend Yahaya Bello’s Security Template

Posted by admin Governors, Headlines, Kogi, Kwara, State News Saturday, October 2nd, 2021

Olaoluwakitan Babatunde Prominent clerics, religious leaders and eminent sons and daughters of Ilorin Emirate in Kwara State have asked Governors in Nigeria to adopt the strategy used by Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State in tackling insecurity in his state, for the country at large. This call was made at a special prayer for the […]

Baba-Ahmed: Mandela turns in his grave

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, October 2nd, 2021

DIALOGUE WITH NIGERIA By Akin Osuntokun In 2013, an indignant Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed wrote of a moving encounter he had with the Madiba, President Nelson Mandela in 2007.The subject matter of the encounter was appropriately Nigeria on which the two shared identical views. I will presently recall excerpts and lessons cited approvingly by Baba-Ahmed of […]

Nigeria needs Nationalist President to build trust, Says Lamido

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, October 2nd, 2021

By Bennett Oghifo Former Governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Sule Lamido, has said Nigeria needs a nationalist as president in 2023 to heal the great division that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has caused. “We desire a country where there is peace for every Nigerian. What will we do to restore common bond/trust among […]

Dr. Chike Akunyili, husband of late Prof. Dora Akunyili shot dead in Anambra

Posted by admin Anambra, Headlines, State News Wednesday, September 29th, 2021

Armed men have reportedly killed Dr. Chike Akunyili, the husband of late Ex- Nigeria’s Minister of information Prof. Dora Akunyili, in Anambra state, South East Nigeria. It was gathered that Dr Akunyili, who was the Chief Medical Director of the popular St. Leo hospital Enugu, was murdered at Umuoji in Idemili Council area of Anambra […]

Mobs kill clergyman in Kano

Posted by admin Headlines, Kano, State News Tuesday, September 28th, 2021

…we’ve arrested seven persons in connection with the incident – Police Mobs have reportedly killed a pastor identified as Reverend Yohanna Shuaibu in Massu, a village in Sumaila Local Government Area of Kano State. It was gathered that the mobs also burnt down the slain pastor’s house, church and mission school. The information available to […]

CNN discovers location of ‘Radio Biafra’ in London

Posted by admin Biafra, Headlines Monday, September 27th, 2021

CNN discovers location of ‘Radio Biafra’ in London By Nwafor Sunday For years now, Nigerians have asked for the location of ‘Radio Biafra’, a network of internet-based amateur radio stations broadcasting the agenda of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. Yesterday, the Cable News Network, CNN, discovered a tucked away down a quiet, leafy street […]

Bandits Attack Joint Base, kill military personnel in Sokoto

Posted by admin Air Force, Armed Forces, Army, Headlines, Navy, Sokoto, State News, Uncategorized Monday, September 27th, 2021

By Onuminya Innocent Residents yesterday said gunmen suspected to be armed bandits attacked a joint military base codenamed “Burkusuma camp’ located in Sabon Birni Local Government Area of Sokoto State and killed unspecified number of military personnel. Villagers and security sources told THISDAY that the attack took place in the early hours of Friday. It was gathered that the […]

61st Independence: Army notifies FCT residents of movement of heavy military equipment (Is it independence or war?)

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Army, Headlines Monday, September 27th, 2021

The Nigerian Army has urged residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) not to panic as heavy military equipment will be moved ahead of Nigeria’s 61st Independence celebration. The Commander, Guards Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Mohammed Usman, disclosed this in a statement issued by the Assistant Director, Army Public Relations, Guard Brigade, Capt. Godfrey Abakpa, on Monday […]