2022

Residents of Jos, the Plateau state capital, have lamented the deplorable state of roads in parts of the metropolis, describing them as death traps. The residents, in a report, published in the latest edition of the state owned newspaper, Sunday Standard, said car crashes occur almost on a daily basis within the metropolis as a result…

The Kaduna state government says troops have neutralised many bandits,including some of those behind the kidnapping in 2021 of students of the Federal College of Forestry and the security breached at the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), Kaduna. Samuel Aruwan, the commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday in…

No fewer than 20 people were said to have been killed in attacks on communities in Taraba State by invading fulani terrorists. Several communities were also said to have been sacked by the criminals. It was learnt that the affected communities are located in Yangtu Development Area and Ussa Local Government Area of the state….

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has said  any airline transacting business in Nigeria in foreign currency is an enemy of the country. In a statement on Friday in Kaduna, Audu Ogbe, Chairman of the forum, said, “No airline wishing any country good should involve itself in sabotaging its economy through dwarfing the value of its…

The Department of State Services (DSS) have raided the residences of two relations of Tukur Mamu, the train hostage negotiator. In a statement on Friday, Ibrahim Mada, Special Projects Manager, Desert Herald newspaper, published by Mamu, said the DSS stormed the Kaduna residences of the publisher’s brother, Ibrahim Mamu and his brother in-law, Abdullahi Mashi…