“A horrific incident occurred in Oron, Akwa Ibom State, earlier today, where a 42-year-old man, Victor Okoh, allegedly murdered his 38-year-old wife, Victoria Okoh, with a machete over accusations of infidelity,” an online newspaper reported last week. The brutal killing of Victoria Okoh adds to the growing and tragic list of women who have met…
With less than 24 hours to leave office, Kaduna state governor, Nasir El-Rufai has declared the Atyap Community Development Association (ACDA), as an unlawful and signed an order to proscribe it. The ACDA is a socio-cultural association of the Atyap ethnic nationality in Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of the state. In a statement…
By Sylvanus Tyoakaa, Abuja The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) and the Senate President, Ahmad Lawal have mourn the death, Paul Unongo, a former minister of Iron and Steel in the second republic. Unongo,a former Convener of the NEF, died on Tuesday in Jos, Plateau state following a protracted illness. The NEF,in a statement on Wednesday…
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has condemned the coordinated suicide bomb attacks on Gwoza community in Borno State. At least 18 people were killed while 30 others were injured on Saturday in multiple attacks by female suicide bombers during a wedding in Gwoza. The first suicide bomber detonated during a marriage celebration, minutes later the…
By Patience Dombin, Jos The Plateau state government has directed all public officers wishing to contest the 2023 general elections to resign their appointments on or before February 28, 2022. A memo dated January 31, 2022, published on Sunday on the Facebook page of the Plateau State Governor’s Directorate of Press Facebook, said the directive…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been advised not to toe the ignoble path of his predecessors who only mourned victims of killings in press statements, thereby reducing themselves to mourners-in-chief instead of taking responsibility as commanders-in-chief. Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara gave the advice when he led some serving and former members of the House of…
