Month: June 2017

  • CSO Protests Harassment of Benue Whistle-blower, Tsav To CJN, AGF

    CSO Protests Harassment of Benue Whistle-blower, Tsav To CJN, AGF

    …Seeks protection of elder-stateman The Advocate of Social Justice For All (ASJA) has appealed to the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) and the Hon. Attorney General and Minister of Justice (AGF) to put an eye on the Benue State Judiciary so as to check mate the negative tendencies and mindset of the executive Governor of…

  • Buhari Doing Fine, Not On Life Support – Nigerians In Diaspora Blast Fayose

    Buhari Doing Fine, Not On Life Support – Nigerians In Diaspora Blast Fayose

    The Nigeria in Diaspora Monitoring Group (United Kingdom Chapter) has faulted the recent media report, which alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari has been on “life support for 20-days. Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, had in a statement he personally urged Nigerians to pray for the President as all was not well with him. “Like every…

  • Boko Haram: A Business Empire Demystified?

    Boko Haram: A Business Empire Demystified?

    By Richards Murphy Let me ask Nigerians these pertinent questions. When security agents arrest suspected Boko Haram terrorists and find in their possession dangerous and high-caliber guns and bombs, does it strike anything in anybody? Or what do people think each time soldiers raid terrorists hideouts /caves and recover materials for the manufacture of lethal…

  • Taraba governor, speaker mourn Suntai

    Taraba governor, speaker mourn Suntai

    Taraba Gov. Darius Ishaku and the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Mr Abel Diah, have described the death of a former governor of the state, Danbaba Suntai, as a huge loss to the state and the entire Nigeria. Ishaku said in a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Media, Mr Nelson Len,…

  • Kwankwaso Did Not Support Northern Youths – Southern Mandate

    Kwankwaso Did Not Support Northern Youths – Southern Mandate

    By Ikhili Monday EBALU, Benin city   A  Socio political group, Southern Mandate of Nigeria (SMN), have condemned in strong terms the statement accredited to Afenifere, Ohaneze ndigbo and highly respected Elder statesman Alh Balarabe Musa of   accusing Sen. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of supporting Northern Youths on the quit Notice given to the Ibos from…

  • Fashola’s Claims on 2017 Budget Mischievous and Misleading – Reps

    Fashola’s Claims on 2017 Budget Mischievous and Misleading – Reps

    By Aaron Ossai The House of Representatives has said that the minister of Works, Power and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, SAN, is peddling inaccuracies, misleading and calculated mischief about the 2017 budget in an attempt to blackmail the National Assembly and set it on a collision course with the executive. In a press statement signed…

  • Eid-el-Fitr: Dogara Felicitates With Muslims, Calls For Unity Among Nigerians

    Eid-el-Fitr: Dogara Felicitates With Muslims, Calls For Unity Among Nigerians

    By Aaron Ossai Speaker of House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has urged religious leaders to continue to preach and promote the virtues of unity, genuine love for one another and peaceful co-existence for Nigeria to attain greatness and eschew divisive and hate tendencies. This is contained in a goodwill message to the Muslim Ummah…

  • Mother of 9 Arrested For Human Trafficking

    Mother of 9 Arrested For Human Trafficking

    By Ikhili Monday EBALU, Benin City The Benin Zonal Command of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), has arrested a 40 years old woman and mother of nine, Mrs Halimatu Omoruyi Osifo, for offences bordering on human trafficking. Addressing newsmen in Benin City, the Commander, NAPTIP Benin Zonal Command, Nduka…

  • Bauchi Establishes 33 and 20 Hectares of Orchard and Woodlot Plantation

    Bauchi Establishes 33 and 20 Hectares of Orchard and Woodlot Plantation

    By Sule ALIYU, Bauchi The APC administration in Bauchi state has within the past two years established 33 hectares of orchard and 20 hectares of Woodlot plantation under the Great Green Wall (GGW) programme of the Federal Government. The State Commissioner for Agriculture, Barrister Yakubu Kirfi said the programme was implemented in three Northern fringes…

  • Imam Wants Hajj Fair Reduced

    Imam Wants Hajj Fair Reduced

    By Sule ALIYU, Bauchi Chief Imam of Bauchi, Bala Ahmad Baban-Inna has called upon the Federal Government to critically look at the high rate of over N1.5 million this year’s Hajj fare for possible reduction to allow common man perform the obligatory exercise in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Baban- Inna, in his Eid-el-fitr sermon at the…