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February, 2021

  • 27 February

    Saraki mediates in Makinde, Fayose feud

    Saraki, in a tweet on Friday, said both Makinde and Fayose were ready to work together in the interest of the PDP. Already PDP is feeling thoroughly embarrassed by the bad publicity brought to the Peoples Democratic Party by the public spat between the Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, and his Bauchi State counterpart, Bala Mohammed, the PDP Governors ...

  • 27 February

    Car snatchers’ new mode of Operations exposed !

    Suspected robber, Kudus Yunus, has been arrested by the police for allegedly carjacking about seven vehicles in different parts of Lagos State. He was apprehended alongside two car dealers, Abdulbasit Mohammed and Tony Nwadia; a suspected smuggler, Kazeem Aluko, a Customs agent, Joseph Oyeniyi and two alleged gunrunners, Chigozie Odinaka and Ahmed Adebayo. One Abudulahi Mohammed and Nasiru Mohammed, accused ...

  • 27 February

    North cuts off foodstuffs, Cow meat supplies to South West

    Truckloads of cattle and foodstuffs, including tomatoes, pepper, onions and beans, were prevented from entering Kwara State at the Jebba border with Niger State on Thursday. The Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria has commenced an indefinite strike, following the failure of the government to address the alleged killings of its members in parts of the country. ...

  • 27 February

    Foodstuff & Cattle Dealers demand N450bn compensation from FG

    The Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria has commenced an indefinite strike, following the failure of the government to address the alleged killings of its members in parts of the country. The union is also stopping its members from moving cattle and foodstuffs to the southern part of the country Tahir demanded N450bn compensation from the government ...

  • 27 February

    Nigeria, Now The Largest Producer of Cassava in the World— FG

    The Federal Government on Wednesday in Bauchi declared that Nigeria is now the largest producer of cassava in the world. Mrs Karima Babangida, Director, Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Abuja, made the disclosure at a workshop on cassava production organised by the ministry. Babangida, who was represented by Regional Director, North East, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Alhaji Umar ...

  • 27 February

    Buhari to State govs : Stop rewarding bandits with money & vehicles, it ‘ll boomerang

    President Muhammadu Buhari has described the latest abduction of hundreds of students of Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe in Zamfara State as inhumane and totally unacceptable, sending out a strong warning to bandits and their sponsors. Reacting to the incident on Friday, President Buhari said that “this administration will not succumb to blackmail by bandits who target innocent school students ...

  • 27 February

    Opinion: Zamfara and Futility of Amnesty for Bandits

    All through February before they Struck at dawn on Friday 26 , everybody thought Zamfara had seen the end of Banditry.This is because the amnesty declared and pursued by Governor Bello Matawalle has witnessed the renunciation of Banditry by different groups and surrendering of huge cache of arms and ammunition. Indeed one of the the dreaded groups led by the ...

  • 26 February

    BREAKING: Again, Gunmen abduct over 300 girls in Zamfara school around 1.00 a. m

    Another Set Of Students, over 300 has been Kidnapped In Zamfara. Some gunmen suspected to be bandits entered schoolgirls at Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe in the Talata-Mafara Local Government Area of Zamfara State. A staff of the school, who begged for anonymity, said the bandits arrived in the school around 1am on Friday with Hilux vehicles and motorcycles and ...

  • 26 February

    3 Herdersmen who allegedly set Village ablaze in Ogun arrested

    By Felix Mordi Three of the herdsmen who, last Thursday, allegedly conspired to attack a village in the Ayetoro area of Ogun State, have been arrested. The gun-totting and blood-thirsty herders, We gathered, besieged Bamajo Village in the early hours of the day and caught the villagers napping. In the unprovoked and senseless attack, houses were torched just as the ...

  • 26 February

    Policeman Knocked Off Lagos Bridge By Driver Alive, Out Of Hospital – Police

    David Zapaina, a police inspector, who was knocked off a bridge into a canal in Lagos State by a driver is alive and has been discharged from hospital. Muyiwa Adejobi, the Public Relations Officer of the Lagos Police Command, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday. In a viral video on Wednesday, the driver, identified by the police as Sunday ...