No fewer than 27 people, including men and women, have been reportedly killed in a fresh attack by gunmen in Bindi-Jebbu of the Tahoss community in Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau State. The attack said to have been carried out by suspected fulani bandits on Monday left many people injured. Several people who sustained…
Former sports minister, Solomon Dalung, has dismissed reports associating him with the interim leadership of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), describing the reports as “fake news”. Dalung also denied his membership of the third force, a political movement led by former Kano state governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso which recently moved to the NNPP. Dalung, Senator…
The Imo state police command said the killers of Ahmed Gulak, former political aide to ex President Goodluck Jonathan, had been “neutralized.” Gulak was killed on Sunday by gunmen in Owerri, the Imo state capital on his way to the airport to catch a flight to Abuja. Spokesman of the Imo state police command, Bala Elkana,…
In a decisive move to end months of leadership controversy and institutional embarrassment, the National Secretariat of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), has formally disbanded its regional chapters known as Northern CAN and Southern CAN. The decision was conveyed in a public notice signed by the CAN President, Archbishop Daniel Okoh, and the General…
By Shu’aibu Usman Leman Across Northern Nigeria, the seasonal migration of Fulani pastoralists continues year after year—largely unchecked and seemingly undeterred by decades of debate, policy failures, and escalating communal tensions. Despite repeated promises to resolve the frequent and often deadly clashes between these nomadic cattle herders and sedentary farming communities, little has been done…
The authorities of the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital (UATH) has dismissed allegations that the former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Dr. Obadiah Mailafia, was treated shabbily at the hospital before he died on Sunday morning. The Middle Belt Forum (MBF) has alleged that Mailafia was treated shabbily by doctors at…
