The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has decried the increasing wave of insecurity across the country. The party also lamented the religious and ethnic divide among Nigerians, saying it is retrogressive. Director-General, ADC Global Campaign Council, Abdul-Azeez Sulieman said this at the launch of the North-West chapter of the party’s ‘Unity, Peace and Development Lecture Series’…
The Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Oladayo Amao, (NAF), has set up a committee to compile all allegations of accidental air strikes on civilians and the circumstances leading to such accidents. Spokesman of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday. The statement said,…
By Joseph Kwewum In a stunning development that has sent shockwaves across the African football landscape, the Confederation of African Football on Tuesday night announced that it had stripped Senegal of its Africa Cup of Nations title and awarded it to Morocco, hosts of the tournament. The decision, which comes three months after the conclusion…
Chairman of Farmers Herders Initiative for Peace and Development Africa (FHIPD – Africa), Salim Umar, has said that the high level of insecurity has crippled the implementation of the nomadic education programme. In a paper he presented on Friday in Kaduna at a workshop for staff of the National Commission for Nomadic Education (NCNE) from…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kaduna state has won Saturday’s re-run election in Igabi federal constituency in Kaduna state. Announcing the results, Abdullahi Dalhatu, INEC returning officer, said Hussaini Jallo of the PDP, whose election was upturn at the appeal court, emerged winner of the re-run, polling 47,313 to defeat Ibrahim Zayad of the…
The Northern Christian Leaders in the All-Progressives Congress (APC), have dissociated themselves from a statement by Babachir Lawal, endorsing the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi. Lawal had in a statement in a statement issued on Thursday announced on behalf of the Christian leaders, declared support for Obi, maintaining that the APC’s same…
