The Adara Development Association (ADA) has raised alarm over renewed activities of bandits terrorising its communities in Kachia and Kajuru Local Government Areas of Kaduna state. The group, in a statement on Monday, signed by Livinus Jatau, its, Publicity Secretary, called on the government to take urgent steps to contain the situation. The association recalled…
Kaduna state governor, Senator Uba Sani, has said that military and law enforcement strategies alone are not sufficient to curb the growing threat of violent extremism in Nigeria’s north-west. The governor stated this on Tuesday in Kaduna while declaring opened a two day summit on Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism in North West zone. Sani,…
Uba Sani, governor of Kaduna state , has announced the reduction of school fees in state owned tertiary institutions. In 2021, the former administration of ex- governor Nasir El- Rufai increased school fees in state tertiary institutions amid protests by students and cries by parents. At a press conference on Monday at the government house,…
“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…
Governor of Ondo, Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN), has warned that current hardship being faced by Nigerian as result of the scarcity of new naira notes and hike in petrol price, may lead to “unpleasant consequences” if the situation is not addressed. In a statement on Friday, Akeredolu called on President Muhammadu Buhari to take urgent steps…
Nigeria Is a Failed State The first step to restoring stability and security is recognizing that the government has lost control. By Robert I. Rotberg, founding director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Program on Intrastate Conflict and president emeritus of the World Peace Foundation, and John Campbell, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign…
