Buhari Sad After “Alleged Execution” Of Four Aid Workers
Solomon Elusoji President Muhammadu Buhari, on Saturday, expressed sorrow over the death of four aid workers killed by terrorists in the country’s north-east region. On Friday, French aid group, Action Against Hunger, said jihadists had executed four hostages who had been held since July. According to the group, the four were among six hostages held by the […]
Edo vigilantes kill herdsmen in shootout
Members of a local vigilante group in Esan west local government area of Edo state have shot dead suspected Fulani herdsmen during an exchange of fire. The Fulani herdsmen were said to have attacked the vigilante group along Uhiele Egoro Na Oka road at about 7.30 pm on Wednesday while on patrol along the road. […]
Senegal Leads Opportunity Boom In The MSGBC Basin
Dakar, Senegal, December 12, 2019: In the context of what PwC’s Africa oil & gas review 2019 describes as an exciting growth phase for the continent fuelled by large oil and gas discoveries and subsequent increased investor appetite, the MSGBC Basin shines through as one of the most exciting areas of frontier exploration in the region. Read on […]
PUNCH AND ITS SINISTER MOTIVES FOR ATTACKS ON PRESIDENT BUHARI
The reported new editorial policy of the Punch Newspapers to address President Muhammadu Buhari as Major General in his official title and refer to his government as a regime instead of administration, comes to us as totally curious and utterly incredible. The paper claimed that it is changing President Buhari’s official title to General because […]
Omoyele Sowore: Portrait of A Life in Protest
by Reuben Abati The mishandling of the Omoyele Sowore case has become clearly an albatross for the Nigerian government, an embarrassment for the incumbent Federal Government and a public relations disaster for both the Department of State Services and Nigeria as a whole. All of that was patently avoidable. Inadvertently, the Federal Government has turned […]
El Rufai’s cabinet is mini Nigeria—Obasanjo
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has described Kaduna town as a melting pot of all the ethnic groups in Nigeria and commended the pan-Nigerian character of Governor Nasir El Rufai’s cabinet. The former president who was in Kaduna on a private visit to Governor El Rufai on Wednesday, described himself as a son-of-the soil having lived […]
World Anti Corruption Day: Sokoto EFCC causes 4 convictions, received 236 petitions, prosecutes 20 cases, secure forfeitures
By Ado Hassan, SokotoTHE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Sokoto Zonal Office has said that it has secure four convictions out of 20 prosecutions from 236 petitions received by the anti graft agency in the zone. Similarly, the zone disclosed that it had made over N910 million monetary recoveries from its operations between January to […]
Over 100 Anwar Al-Awlaki Videos Found on YouTube
Report Marks Second Time Awlaki’s Propaganda Re-uploaded to Platform (New York, N.Y.) – On December 5, The Times (London) reported its discovery of over 100 radicalizing extremist videos from notorious al-Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki on Google-owned YouTube. The videos were identified by the news outlet using “obvious search terms” including “The Battle of Hearts and Minds”—which the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) has previously noted […]
Irona Tasks Aides on Productivity
… Says, ISOPADEC Projects For Commissioning Soon Deputy Governor of Imo State, Engr. Gerald Irona has charged statutory aides in his office to remain productive, while adding value to the Rebuild Imo Administration of Chief Emeka Ihedioha. The Deputy Governor gave the charge during a parley with statutory appointees in his office who paid him […]
DSS AND THE 6TH DECEMBER, 2019 FEDERAL HIGH COURT, ABUJA INCIDENT
DSS PRESS RELEASE DSS AND THE 6TH DECEMBER, 2019 FEDERAL HIGH COURT, ABUJA INCIDENT It has become important that the Department of State Services responds to the serial misinformation being circulated in the media about its involvement in the incident that occurred on 6th December, 2019 at the Federal High Court, Abuja. It is instructive […]