Security experts and stakeholders have commended the military and other security agencies over the recent successes recorded in the fight against Boko Haram insurgents in the North-East region. The stakeholders who spoke in Bauchi, Gombe, Maiduguri and Yola, said the feat achieved had resulted to relative peace in the region. They urged the military and other security agencies to sustain the tempo, so as to improve security and restore peace for sustainable social and economic development of the region and the country. The stakeholders also urged the people to continue to support the military to ensure total elimination of the…
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Renowned author, Chimamanda Adichie on Monday said that the words – troublesome and innovative – have their pride of place in the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). Adichie delivered the keynote address at the 62nd edition of the NBA Annual General Conference holding at the Eko Atlantic City in Lagos state. The conference had the theme: “Bold Transition”. Adichie made a distinction between the words – troublesome and disruptive. According to her, both words are often used to describe negative emotions whereas they can also describe positivity. “Traditionally, the word disruptive has often been used in a negative sense; we have school…
The Commissioner of Police, Sokoto state command, Muhammad Useni Gumel has said that strengthening collaboration and synergy with other relevant security agencies will reverse the current internal security threats in the state and the country as a whole. Gumel stated this on Monday while decorating 18 officers who were promoted from the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) to Superintendent of Police (SP). “Let me assure members of the public that the police in the state are currently strengthening the existing levels of collaboration and synergy with other relevant security agencies. “This is in order to reverse the current…
NGF’S RESPONSE TO NED MUNIR NWOKO’S PRESS STATEMENT DATED 20TH AUGUST, 2022 Not surprisingly, the desperate, spurious and futile advocacy mounted and coordinated by the AGF on behalf of the so-called Paris Club Consultants to justify the plundering of the humongous sum of USD418.9m from the public treasury of the States and Local Governments continued on Saturday 20th August 2022, when Ned Nwoko, in a press statement, attempted to blur and obfuscate the real facts and legal issues in controversy by dishing out blatant lies and half-truths. The facts are and will always remain: whether the claims of the consultants…
The leaders of six opposition parties in Turkey have agreed on putting forward a joint candidate to run against incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the elections slated for June 2023. The parties include the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), the nationalist Good Party (İP), the Islamist Felicity Party (SP) and the Democrat Party (DP). Others are; former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s Future Party (GP) and ex-Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan’s Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA). The leaders of these parties reached the agreement at a meeting held on Saturday, the joint statement said and was made available to…
The Police Command in Plateau says it can justify why it arrested and charged to court 13 youths who claim to be mountaineers (hikers) in a community of Jos North local government area of the state. DSP Alfred Alabo, the Police Public Relations Officer of the command, gave the explanation in a statement. Alabo discarded the social media reports about the arrest, insisting that the reports did not represent what happened. “It is true that 13 youths were arrested at down base of a worship centre staff community, following a sting operation by the police in a suspicious manner. “The…
The Osun Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Osogbo, on Monday, granted permission to Gov. Gboyega Oyetola and the All Progressives Congress (APC) permission to inspect materials used for the July 16, governorship poll. The tribunal also granted the plaintiffs’ request to electronically scan the voters’ register used for the election, as well as the election ballot papers. Justice Tertsea Kume, the chairman of the tribunal, while granting the two applications (motion exparte) by the plaintiffs, ordered that Osun governor-elect, Sen. Ademola Adeleke be summoned through ‘substitution of service of notice’. Kume said that the notice of summon should be pasted…
The Stop TB Partnership Geneva in collaboration with Stop TB Partnership Nigeria are to mobilise resources needed to end Tuberculosis in Nigeria by 2030. According to the two organisations, only 31 per cent of the money needed for TB control activities has been generated in the country. “In Nigeria, of the $373 million needed for the TB response in 2020, only 31 per cent was available to all the implementers of TB control activities – seven per cent domestic and 24 per cent donor funds – with a 69 per cent funding gap. “It is very clear that with such…
The Headquarters, Sector 2 Joint Task Force North East Operation Hadin Kai, has commenced investigation to unravel the identity of the soldiers who allegedly murdered an Islamic scholar in Yobe. Cpt Kennedy Anyawu, the Assistant Director Army Public Relations, Headquarters Sector 2 Operation Hadin Kai, said in a statement on Sunday in Damaturu. The Police had arrested two soldiers over the murder of an Islamic cleric, Sheikh Goni Gashua on Friday. “The Sector, in collaboration with Yobe State Police Command is carrying out investigation to unravel the identity of the suspected soldiers. “Additionally, the Sector has instituted a Board of…
Agriculture stakeholders in Northwest have predicted that the high cost of fertiliser this year is likely to have a negative impact on harvest and price of farm produce. Some of them who responded to a survey conducted by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kaduna, Kano, Sokoto, Zamfara, Kebbi and Katsina, noted that most farmers could not afford the commodity, a development that would affect the yield in their farms. The stakeholders observed that apart from hike in price of fertiliser, there were other factors such as late supply of the commodity by the authorities, as well as the…