Terrorists in fresh attack on Gatawa village in Sabon Birni local government area of Sokoto state on Friday, kidnapped the chief imam, Aminu Garba and 10 other persons during a congregational prayer. They also blocked Sabon Birni-Gatawa road, shot three persons and kidnapped seven others on Saturday. The member, representing Sabon Birni South constituency in the state assembly, Sa’idu Ibrahim confirmed the attack, adding that the injured persons were currently receiving treatment at the Sokoto Othopeadic hospital in Wamakko. He said another woman who was shot at Dama village got her leg amputated because it could not be fixed. The…
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Our current situation of a glaring failure of the rule of law must disturb any Nigerian who has come of age. The average citizen today lives in fear. When you retire into your house, you pray to God to deliver you from evil marauders who have removed peace from the calmness of the night. When the sun rises, you again rely on God to protect you from those who have become the law unto themselves. In Nigeria today, the rule of law has taken flight. Charlatans carrying guns that are daily becoming accessible to any riff-raff who wants to own…
By Festus Adedayo Does Bisi Akande know that, whether on issues of security, economy, social or political, butcherbirds have taken over Nigeria? Does he know that under Buhari, Nigerians groan daily? If he knew, why shower butcherbirds with eulogies if you are not one? As former governor of Osun State and pioneer Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande, got ready to launch his autobiography in Lagos last Friday, a day before the launch, one very unAfrican event occurred in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso. Christophe Joseph-Marie Dabiré, the West African country’s Prime Minister, presented his letter…
Terrorists have killed one Pastor Dauda Bature who was in charge of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) parish in the Narayi area of Chikun local government area of Kaduna state, ChannelsTV has reported. Abducted by the terrorists on November 8, Bature was killed despite the payment of an unspecified amount of money to his captors as a ransom for his release. Police authorities in Kaduna were yet to react to the killing, but a top member of the church confirmed the death of the clergyman to ChannelsTV on Saturday. The source explained that the bandits kidnapped Bature on November…
Rev. Jonathan Nicole, President, Shippers Association of Lagos, says maritime sector issues made Nigeria to lose a bid to secure a seat in the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) Council. Nicole made the disclosure in an interview in Lagos on Saturday. He urged the federal government to urgently resolve the issues which, he said, gave the sector a bad name. Nigeria on Friday lost election into Category C of the IMO, after years of failed efforts to rejoin the elitist group of maritime nations since it lost re-election bid in 2011. The new members of Category C are Bahamas, Belgium, Chile,…
The new variant Omicron is responsible for the resurgence of COVID-19 confirmed cases in South Africa, the country’s Health Minister, Joe Phaahla has said. He also pointed out that preliminary evidence suggested that there may be an increased risk of reinfection with this variant. Phaahla told a digital press briefing on Friday that the new variant Omicron was responsible for the resurgence of COVID-19 cases. “Recent genomic sequencing results revealed that Omicron was the dominant variant among samples sequenced during November 2021 – 70 percent (250/358) as of yesterday,” he said. Weekly cases in Gauteng province have increased by 415…
Tanzania and Kenya have agreed to exchange roan antelopes and female black rhinoceros in a move aimed at boosting reproduction of the two species. Tanzanian President Samia Hassan said at the State House that Tanzania would offer Kenya 20 roan antelopes at a request by the visiting Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta. After talks between the two leaders, Hassan said that Tanzania would deliver the 20 roan antelopes to Kenya before Christmas. “Tanzania has currently about 4,000 roan antelopes while Kenya has only 12 of the specie. “President Kenyatta has also accepted our request for black female rhinoceros that will be…
MultiChoice’ South African TV network, Mzansi Magic, has announced the return of classic reality television show, ‘Big Brother Africa’, after a seven-year break The show is expected to be launched in 2022. According to new reports, casting has begun in earnest for the show, tagged ‘Big Brother Mzansi’, and produced by Randburg-based Red Pepper Pictures (same producers of the Nigerian edition of the show). M-Net’s Executive Head of Programming, Nomsa Philiso confirmed the forthcoming show. “This year marks 20 years since the very first Big Brother on MultiChoice’s M-Net and we are excited to celebrate this milestone by commissioning a…
The Arewa Defenders Forum says it has identified certain elements commissioned by Southeast politicians to form ad-hoc groups to be deployed against the interest of the North in the buildup to the 2023 elections. “One such groups is a certain Arewa Concerned Civil Society Organisations of Nigeria (ACCSON) that recently attacked the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum President, Shettima Yarima for merely re-echoing the North’s position on the South East presidency debate. Reacting to the attack on Yerima, Coordinator of the Arewa Defenders Forum, Mohammed Lawal described the action of the ACCSON as indecent, outright betrayal of the general interests of…
Sokoto state governor, Aminu Tambuwal has told president Muhammadu Buhari that the state is left vulnerable to the activities of bandits and required urgent action from the presidency. The governor said this when he received the nation’s security chiefs led by the National Security Adviser (NSA), Babagana Munguno at the government house on Friday. Tambuwal said that Sokoto, in the last four days, had witnessed broad-daylight attacks and kidnappings “in some parts of Isa, Sabon Birni, Tangaza, Illela and several other local government areas of the state.” According to him, this situation was heightened by the influx of bandits and…