The magistrate court grade 1 in Jalingo, Taraba state, has sentenced three persons arrested by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) to 10 years’ imprisonment over arms trafficking. The convicts — Sakina Garba, Ali Gono, and Ibrahim Abdulrashi were arrested between January and February 2026 along the Wukari-Jalingo road in Taraba with arms…
The president of the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU), Hon. Jonathan Asake, has resigned his position to contest the governorship of Kaduna state on platform of the Labour Party (LP). Asake disclosed this on Tuesday in Kaduna at the official handover of the leadership of SOKAPU to the his vice, Awemi Maisamari. There had been…
The Presidency has reacted to the Easter message by the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Most Rev. Matthew Kukah, saying the he did not speak like man of God. Kukah had in his Easter message, lamented that the federal government spends billions in rehabilitating so called repentant terrorists while their victims are left to wallow in…
The Chairman of Keffi Local Government Area of Nasarawa state, Mohammed Shehu has been freed after over 24 hours in captivity. Shehu, alongside his driver, were abducted along the Keffi-Akwanga road on Friday by gunmen after killing his police orderly, Alhassan Habib. Spokeman of the Nasarawa state police command Ramhan Nansel, confirmed their release on…
By Abdul Mahmud “Social media is a terrorist organisation that we must deal with. Security agencies must deal with this terrorist organisation called social media.” These are the words of the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III. He expressed them without irony. Without hesitation; and in a disdaining way. A man of his stature,…
NIGERIA has a long history of Western education. Its first medical doctor, William Broughton Davis graduated in 1858. It had its first television station on October 31, 1959 before some Western countries like Albania and New Zealand. Yet, in July, 2021, its National Assembly voted overwhelmingly that the country must not transmit election results electronically….
