Insecurity: Senate president, security chiefs, meet
Cross section of Service Chiefs during a meeting on Wednesday at the National Assembly with the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, over insecurity. Photo by Sylvanus Tyoakaa.
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Coercion or Conviction: The troubling surge of political defections in Nigeria
By Shu’aibu Usman Leman_ The recent flurry of defections to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Nigeria has ignited a fervent and often acrimonious debate concerning the true motivations underpinning these significant political realignments. While some observers might readily interpret this discernible trend as a resounding endorsement of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s nascent administration and…
Nigerian army denies killing 70 people in Benue
The Nigerian Army has denied allegations by residents of Mbator in Shangev-Tiev of Konshisha Local Government Area of Benue State that at least 70 innocent persons were killed during an invasion by soldiers. In a statement on Friday the army said the allegations were not true. A group known as Shangev-Tiev Assembly (STA), had at…
Barkindo, outgoing OPEC Secretary General is dead
The secretary-general of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo, is dead. The Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC), disclosed this on a tweeter post in the early hours of Wednesday. He said Barkindo died at about 11p.m on Tuesday few hours after delivering a speech to…
Supreme Court to deliver judgment on LG autonomy suit Thursday
The Supreme Court is to deliver judgment on the suit seeking full autonomy for the 774 local governments in the country tomorrow, July 11. Notices on the development have been dispatched to lawyers. The federal government instituted the suit marked SC/CV/343/2024 against all the 36 states of the federation. In the suit filed by Lateef Fagbemi, attorney-general…
Governors should provide adequate teachers, infrastructure for nomadic schools, NCNE boss urges
Bashir Usman executive secretary of the National Commission for Nomadic Education (NCNE), has called on governors of the 36 states of the federation to provide adequate teachers and infrastructure for Nomadic Primary schools. He made the called on Tuesday in Kaduna, while declaring opened, a three – day workshop on skills acquisition and sustainable livelihoods…