The Coalition of Northern Groups, CNG, has opined that the recent Zabarmari killings in Borno state, has justified the demand for concerted but regulated self protection initiatives. This is contained in a statement by the Spokesperson of the group, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, a copy of which was made available to AsheNews on Saturday. CNG advised that, like the Kurdish Peshmerga, Nigerians should not surrender their hope and destiny to Boko Haram and other security challenges but “compose regimented and volunteer forces, fully funded and backed by their state governments and fight in defence of their homes and families. Read full statement…
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Maryam Umar, a 20-year-old student of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto has won the BBC Hausa women’s short story writing competition for 2020. Umar in her story titled, “Rai da Cuta” (Life & sickness) tells the story of Azima whose husband returns from a trip exhibiting all the symptoms of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). Although his wife is heavily pregnant, he refuses to isolate himself and remains in denial of the virus. Azima locks him up in a room but soon finds out she has already contracted the from her husband. This eventually leads to the loss of her baby and a…
Zamfara state government says it has called on the federal government to urgently wade into political crisis allegedly being brewed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state. The petition tagged ‘open letter to President Buhari’, was read and signed by Sen. Lawal Daniya, Zamfara West and Chairman, PDP Bakura State Constituency by-election Committee. The PDP reported the APC for allegedly using dangerous weapons including daggers, axes, cutlasses bows and arrows and dane guns and chatting war songs, uncomplimentary remarks and innuendos with a view to incite disturbance of public peace against the PDP supporters. “In an attempt to…
The 36 state governors are to meet President Muhammadu Buhari, as soon as possible, to address security challenges across the country, the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) said. The forum disclosed this in a communiqué signed by its Chairman and Governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, after its 22nd teleconference meeting in Abuja on Friday. According to the communique, Buhari will particularly speak in the light of attack on farmers in Borno State. The communiqué said the governors deliberated on issues affecting the country, particularly on national security and the killings of some 43 rice farmers in Garin Kwashebe in Jere…
The Zazzau Emirate Council has approved the conferment of the traditional title of Kuliyan Zazzau and fixed the 12th of December, 2020 for the official turbanning by the Emir of Zazzau Ambassador Ahmed Nuhu Bamalli. A statement released by a family member, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman said the approval is contained in a letter from the Emirate Council dated 3rd December, 2020 and signed by Secretary to the Council, Alhaji Barau Musa Aliyu, the Sarkin Fulanin Zazzau. Suleiman said the conferment of the title on Justice Bello represents an acknowledgement of his contributions to the general development of Zazzau and its people.…
An official of the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing, FMWH, on Friday charged communities in Gombe state, to ensure proper maintenance of 550 projects executed in their communities between 2018 and 2019. Dr Aisha Ndayako-Mohammed, the Director of Special Projects Unit, SPU, of the ministry stated this in an interview in Kanawa community, Yamaltu-Deba local government area of the state on Friday. Speaking after inspecting some of the projects, she said that there was need for communities to ensure good maintenance culture so that those projects would serve their purpose for the benefit of the people. Ndayako-Mohammed who was…
The Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Friday, upheld the conviction and death sentence that was handed to Maryam Sanda, daughter-inlaw to a former Chairman of the PDP, Mohammed Haliru. Delivering judgment, Justice Stephen Adah, who read the decision on behalf of the three-member panel of justices held that the trial judge was right in his decision. “I have gone through the record before the court and I am fully certain that the learned trial court did not engage any investigation outside the evidence before it,” he said. “The appellant did not point out where the trial judge went out…
Nigeria’s former Chief of Defence Staff and member of the Supreme Military Council and Armed Forces Ruling Council, retired General Domkat Bali has died. Bali died in the early hours of Friday in Jos, Plateau state. Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with the people and government of Plateau over the passing of an illustrious son and highly decorated retired military officer, Gen. Domkat Bali. The president’s condolence message is contained in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Friday. Buhari, who spoke with the wife of the deceased, Esther…
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed optimism that improvement in relations between Nigeria and South Africa will speed up the process of development on the African continent. The Nigerian leader made this known when he met with the Chairman of the African National Congress (ANC) and South Africa’s Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Gwede Mantashe. Mantashe was in the State House, Abuja on Friday as Special Envoy of his country. Buhari cited his last trip to South Africa during which he and President Cyril Ramaphosa worked together in resolving the migrants’ crisis between two brotherly nations. “There was this ‘small…
The second prosecution witness, PW2, Abdulrahman Arabo, in the ongoing trial of Paul Usoro, SAN, a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, for alleged N1.4b billion fraud, on Wednesday 3, 2020, told Justice Rilwan Aikawa of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos how the defendant received a sum of N1.1 billion from the Akwa-Ibom State government. Usoro was first arraigned on December 18, 2018 before Justice Muslim Hassan of the same court. He was later re-arraigned on March 1, 2019 on a 10-count charge bordering on money laundering to the tune of N1.4bn. One of the…