The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and the Arewa Youths for Development and National Unity (AYDNU) have called on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to extend the deadline for currency swap. In separate statements on Saturday in Kaduna, both groups said many rural communities will not be able to change the old notes before the…
Ramatu Kyari, wife of the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Abba Kyari, on Monday slumped at the Federal High Court, Abuja. She slumped and fell on the floor while men of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) were leading Kyari and others out of the court premises. She was quickly carried and rushed…
Rivers state governor, Mr. Nyesom Wike has announced that the state government will give N20 million to each of the 11 families of the police personnel killed by gunmen during the recent attacks on police formations in the state. The governor announced this on Monday in Port Harcourt during a condolence visit to the Commissioner…
Plateau governor-elect, Caleb Mutfwang, has promised to work with other leaders toward returning persons displaced by violent attacks to their ancestral land. Mutfwang made the promise on Saturday in Jos at the 2023 Nzem Berom, a cultural festival of the Berom ethnic nationality in Plateau state. Many people whose communities were taken over by rampaging…
Two people were critically injured and several houses were burnt down during clashes between the Tivs and Jukuns on Wednesday. The incident according to the Punch newspaper, happened at a riverside beside a rice mill around a New Bridge at Wurukum in Makurdi, Benue state capital. The crisis was said to have made a traditional…
By Abdul Mahmud This new year scarcely requires a seer to reveal its gravity. It stands as a decisive threshold for both Nigeria’s political class and the country itself. As the final full year before the 2027 general election, it unfolds within an atmosphere markedly defined not by open contestation but by cooptation, not by…
