The House of Representatives has asked the Chief of Defence staff to, as a matter of urgency, deploy Special Forces to Ussa and Takum Local Government Areas of Taraba state to stop the killings by bandits. The house also directed the Inspector General of Police to deploy mobile Police Force to the sections of Takum-…
Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, says that he is confident of winning the 2023 Presidential election. He therefore, asked Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna state to stay and work with him as president. Tinubu who spoke on Saturday in Kaduna at the 7th edition of Kaduna Investment Summit promised…
The leadership of Miyyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association (MACBAN) in Taraba state has handed over 11 suspected kidnappers and gun runners to the police. The suspects were handed over to the state police commissioner, Mr Abimbola Sokoya, on Sunday. They were presented during the formal inauguration of a 16-man committee set up to tackle criminal…
The United States House of Representatives Subcommittee on Africa is to hold an open hearing on Thursday, November 20, 2025, to examine President Donald Trump’s recent redesignation of Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC). The CPC designation, if ratified by the Senate, would allow the US to impose sanctions on Nigerian officials found…
Air Peace has distanced itself from the circumstances surrounding the arrest of President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero. In a statement on Monday, ailine said the arrest has wrongly been linked to a petition it filed over the disruption of its services by the NLC in 2023. The airline disclosed that the…
Thirty-seven years ago, precisely on May 22-23, 1986, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) students embarked on a peaceful protest against their Vice Chancellor, Professor Ango Abdullahi, who invited the police to quell the protest. The violence inflicted by the police is only comparable to that of the 1978 “Ali-Must-Go” nation-wide students’ protest against the increase in…
