President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev. Daniel Okoh (left), presenting a plague to encourage Gov. Samuel Ortom of Benue state of his good works, during an event at the weekend in Makurdi. Photo by Sylvanus Tyoakaa
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Screening Committee has disqualified 10 of its 23 presidential aspirants. Chairman of the screening committee, John Odigie-Oyegun, disclosed this on Friday in Abuja while submitting the report of the committee to the APC National Chairman, Abduallahi Adamu. The 23 aspirants were screened on Monday and Tuesday. Adamu hinted…
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), has expressed concern over the hash economic conditions Nigerians are going through amid deteriorating security situation. This was contained in a communique issued at the end of its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting on Tuesday in Kaduna. The meeting which was attended by members of the forum across the 19…
Obadiah Mailafiya, a former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is dead. Luka Binniyat, spokesman of the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU), confirmed Mailafiya’s death in a telephone chat on Sunday. Binniyat said Mailafiya who took refuge in Markudi, Benue state, following alleged persistent harassment by the Department of State Security Services (DSS),…
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has called on the federal government to consider other strategies, including unconventional measures in addressing the security challenges in the north. In a communique issued on Wednesday at the end of the meeting of its board of trustees (BoT) in Kaduna, the forum said, the current approaches to fighting insurgents…
A former Inspector-General of Police, Tafa Balogun, has died. Balogun who was appointed AIG in March 2002, was said to have died at a hospital in Lekki, Lagos at about 8:30 pm on Thursday following a brief illness. He was aged 74, few days to his 75th birthday. He was born on August 25, 1947,…
