Benue state governor, Samuel Ortom, has inaugurated a security outfit known as “Community Volunteer Guards”, to address the security challenges in the state. Speaking on Thursday at the passing-out parade of the first batch of 500 members of the Guards in Makurdi, the state capital, Ortom said, the inauguration of the security outfit would have…
Shuaibu Abubakar Audu, minister of Steel Development, says the National Steel Raw Materials Exploration Agency (NSRMEA) is one of the cornerstones of the federal government’s plan to grow the economy to $1 trillion by 2030. Speaking during a visit to the agency on Thursday in Kaduna, he said President Bola Tinubu is determined to rehabilitate…
Liberia, which along with Ethiopia are the two African countries never colonized, marked its Bicentennial as an emergent country, and this Tuesday, July 26, 2022, observed its 75th Independence Anniversary. On that historic date, the five most prominent persons on the dais who are from four countries, were of contrasting nature. Liberian President George Manneh…
One of the abducted students of Greenfield University, Kaduna, has been released. The mother of the released student, Mrs. Lauretta Attahiru, confirmed this on Tuesday to journalists in Kaduna. She did not however give details how her son was released as she declined to make further comments. The police could not however be reached to…
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) fighter jets on internal security operations have hit another terrorists enclave at Kurebe in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State, neutrazing many of the criminals. NAF Director, Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, said the terrorists had assembled at…
The Southern Kaduna Christian Leaders Association (SKCLA) has condemned the abduction and gruesome murder of Sylvester Okechukwu, a Catholic priest in Kafanchan Diocese. He was the pastor of St. Mary Catholic Church, Tachira, in Kaura LGA of Kaduna state. Okechukwu was reported to have been abducted by bandits at his residence on Tuesday night and…
