The Nigeria Association of Women Journalists, NAWOJ, has described as barbaric the killings of innocent rice farmers in Zabamari of Mafa local government area of Borno state. The association, in a statement jointly signed by the national president and secretary, Ladi Bala and Helen Udofa made available to AsheNews on Wednesday also called for collaborative action to fight the scourge. According to it, “the senseless killings of innocent Nigerians in any part of the country is totally unacceptable and MUST be checked and stopped decisively.” NAWOJ particularly expressed concerns and says that it is equally saddened by the increasing spate…
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Mr Adamu Suleiman, Secretary, Duguri Ward Development Committee (WDC), in Alkaleri local government area of Bauchi state says the community recorded about 42 snake bites from May to November 2020. Suleiman disclosed this on Wednesday in Duguri, adding that snake bites had become rampant in the community, threatening the daily existence of the people. Suleiman attributed the existence of snakes in the community to its closeness to the Yankari National Park. “Snake bites are becoming too rampant in Duguri because they migrate to the community due to its closeness to Yankari. “From May to November 2020, five persons died after…
Pfizer and BioNTech on Wednesday became the first vaccine developers in the race to alleviate the COVID-19 pandemic to get regulatory approval after completing all stages of clinical testing. The companies a U.S. pharma giant and its once relatively unknown partner in the German city of Mainz announced that Britain’s regulatory authority for pharmaceuticals had issued emergency use approval for their vaccine. The go-ahead from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) paves the way for Pfizer and BioNTech to begin delivering doses immediately to the country, they said. The companies have already signed an agreement to supply a…
By Ahmed Attahir Gusau Ahead of Bakura House of Assembly by-election in Zamfara state, the All Progressive Congress, APC, has alleged that Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has planned to use thugs to destabilize the poll. Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters in Gusau on Tuesday, the state chairman of APC, Alhaji Lawal Kaura alleged that ruling PDP had hired political thugs to destabilize the by-election. Alerting security agencies, Kaura further alleged that the thugs, who were earlier brought in to the state, were later taken to Funtua in Katsina state. “Our party was aware of the planned thuggery…
By Abdul-Azeez Suleiman The latest massacre of more than 100 innocent farmers in a single attack is significant in proving that northern votes were wasted in electing President Buhari in 2015 and 2019. It shows that northerners did make a mistake in putting up a solid, united front for him in spite of their ethno-religions differences only to be abandoned to suffer the effects of such level of insecurity, poverty and poor governance. For us in the North, policing lives and livelihoods of communities is now a major problem, it would not be an exaggeration to say bluntly that Buhari…
The Senate on Tuesday again asked President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the service chiefs. This is following Boko Haram terrorists killing of 43 rice farmers in Borno. The Senators lamented that the service chiefs had failed to secure the lives and properties of Nigerians. This is the third time that members of the Senate would pass such resolution this year. The resolution, PRNigeria reports, followed a motion by Senator Kashim Shettima on the recent killing of 43 rice farmers in Borno State by the Boko Haram insurgents. The Senate asked Buhari to replace the security chiefs with new ones “immediately”.…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 281 new infections of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. The NCDC made this known via its verified Website on Tuesday. The agency said that the infections brought the total number of cases in Nigeria to 67,838. Of the new infections, data obtained from the agency’s website showed that Lagos State recorded the highest number of infections with 123, while the Federal Capital Territory, Kaduna and Imo reported 64, 38 and 15 infections respectively. Rivers had 11; Plateau eight; Ogun five; Bayelsa and Kwara had four each; Bauchi and Edo had three…
The Tinubu Support Group (TSG) has called on the nation’s security agencies to step up intelligence gathering to prevent further loss of lives of harmless Nigerians in the northeast, especially in Borno. The TSG Head of Media, Mr Oluwatosin Johnson, made the call in a statement he issued on Tuesday in Abuja. Dozens of farmers were killed last weekend while working on their rice fields at Zabarmari in the Jere Local Government Area of Borno. Johnson said that the slaughtering of the farmers, by suspected Boko Haram terrorists, was a huge loss to the nation. “We the leadership and members…
The Police Service Commission says it discovered 925 persons that did not apply for the 2019 recruitment into the Nigeria Police Force, on the list of the 10,000 successful candidates. The Commission made the disclosure in a statement by its Spokesperson, Mr Ikechukwu Ani on Tuesday. “In the cause of screening of the list of the 10,000 successful candidates, the Commission discovered that 925 persons that never applied for recruitment and did not go through the stages and processes of recruitment. These included screening, aptitude test and medical examinations,” the statement reads. According to the commission, “We had to bend…
U.S. Attorney General, William Barr on Tuesday said the Department of Justice had found no evidence of widespread voter fraud that could upturn the Nov. 3 elections. “To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election,” The Associated Press (AP) quoted Barr as saying. This is contrary to claims by President Donald Trump, who lost to former Vice President Joe Biden, that the election was rigged against him. His camping organisation is challenging the election results in key battleground states where its lawsuits have largely been unsuccessful. In early…