The President of the National Association of Parents Teachers Association of Nigeria (NAPTA), Alhaji Haruna Danjuma has pleaded with the abductors of the students of Greenfield University, Kaduna, to spare the lives of their victims. One Sani Idris Jalingo who claimed to be the leader of the bandits that abducted the students on April 18…
The Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum (SMBLF) has raised fresh concerns over the increasing boldness of terrorists operating across Nigeria, warning that the nation’s security situation is deteriorating. In a statement on Thursday in Kaduna, the group said the frequency, spread and brutality of attacks clearly indicate a worsening crisis. The statement was jointly…
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has appealed Kaduna state governor to rescind the dismissal of nurses below level 14 and seek for peaceful resolution of the crisis with the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC). In a statement in the evening on Tuesday, spokesman of the forum, Mr. Emmanuel Yawe, said the sacking of the nurses will…
The Kaduna state government has confirmed that eight corpses have so far been recovered while 26 people were injured in Monday’s terrorists attack on the Abuja- Kaduna train. Samuel Aruwan, the Kaduna state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday. He said the state government had received the…
Leaders of Benue communities in the diaspora have rejected President Bola Tinubu’s statement suggesting that the killings in Benue state by criminal fulani herdsmen is a communal conflict. In an open letter issued following the June 14 massacre in Yelewata, Guma LGA, where over 200 people were reportedly killed by suspected armed herders, the diaspora group said the call…
The federal government has imposed a seven-year embargo on the establishment of new federal universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education. The minister of education, Dr. Tunji Alausa announced this at a briefing with ourselves after a meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday at the Presidential Villa Abuja. The minister cited the proliferation…
