Nigeria and African news

Operatives of the Department of State Services have arrested the President of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Bello Bodejo, over the creation of a vigilante group in Nasarawa State. According to The Punch newspapers, Bodejo was arrested on Tuesday at the Miyetti Allah’s Head Office, Tundun Maliya Cattle Market, Kilometre 22, Abuja-Keffi Expressway, Tundun-Wada, Karu Local…

A former Head of Service (HoS) in Cross River state, Dr. Chris Ita, is dead. His death was announced in a letter by the family, dated August 18, and addressed to the President General of Keffi Old Boys Association (KOBA), an umbrella body for old boys of Government College, Keffi, in Nasarawa state, where the…

Onuminya Ochowechi in Sokoto The General Officer, Commanding (GOC) 8 Division of the Nigerian Army, Sokoto, Maj. Gen. Godwin Mutkut, has commended personnel who participated in the Division’s 2023 Inter-Brigade Corporal and Below Competition. The competition is part of the Nigerian Army training activities that holds every year in all the army divisions across the…

A member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Rimamnde Shawulu Kwewum, has said that Christians cannot be relevant in the scheme of things by sitting in their comfort zones. Speaking at a “Political and Economic Summit,” organised by the Youth Wing of the Christian Association of Nigeria (Youth CAN), which held at ECWA Goodnews, Minna,…

Tajudeen Abbas, the lawmaker representing Zaria federal constituency, Kaduna state, has been elected speaker of the house of representatives. The election held on Tuesday during the inauguration of the house. Abbas scored 353 votes to defeat Sani Jaji, a Zamfara lawmaker who polled 3 votes and Idris Wase, the immediate past former deputy speaker, representing…