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Uba Sani, governor of Kaduna state, has asked community and traditional leaders to deal decisively with the menace of informants undermining security in their localities. In a statement he shared on his X handle, after an emergency security meeting on Wednesday with stakeholders from the seven Local Government Areas worst hit by insecurity, the governor…

Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, says the social media gives him high blood pressure. He said,  he stopped reading anything on the social media because they abuse hell out of him and he gets angry. In a video shared on twitter, Tinubu said, if he wants to hear anything, his…

The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Taraba state, Senator Emmanuel Bwacha has been sacked by federal high court in Jalingo, the state capital. Delivering judgment in a suit filed against Bwacha by one of the APC governorship candidates, David Sabo Kente, on Tuesday, the presiding judge, Simon Amobeda, held that no governorship…

The Niger State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has urged the federal government to adequately equip the Nigeria Police to fight insurgents bandits and other criminal elements in the country. The state Chairman of the association, Most Rev. Bulus Yohanna, made the call when he paid a courtesy visit to the Niger…

Nasir El-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, says the activities of bandits and terrorists are threatening the economy of rural communities in the North-west. Addressing a quarterly security meeting of State Directors of the Department of State Services (DSS) in the North West, on Wednesday in Kaduna, the governor said bandits have openly tried to crush…