The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), has condemned the rampant killings in Benue state, alleging that some indigenes of the state were responsible for the killings. The forum also attributed the killings in the state to the activities of the livestock guards, set up by the state government to enforce the band on open grazing. The…
In this column, last week, I wrote about “The madness which manifests as nothing more than a sickness, to borrow from Michel Foucault, that points at the abnormality that had seized the mind of Abuja, and elsewhere”. I posited, among others, that the madness which manifests in the officialdom has turned our quarters of political…
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) have signed a pact to promote peace in the country ahead of the 2023 elections. In a statement on Wednesday by Samson Ayokunle, immediate past president of CAN, the two religious organisations signed the accord at the international religious freedom…
The Osun governorship election petition tribunal has sacked Ademola Adeleke as governor of the state. In August 2022, Gboyega Oyetola, former Osun governor, and the All Progressives Congress (APC) petitioned the tribunal to challenge the election victory of Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Among several issues, Oyetola went to the tribunal that…
The Yakubu Pam led faction of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Northern states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has accused Nuhu Ribadu, National Security Adviser (NSA) of taking side in the leadership crisis rocking the religious body. In a statement on Thursday in Kaduna, Sunday Oibe, Secretary General of the faction, expressed…
Uba Sani, governor of Kaduna state, says some unscrupulous elements whose interests are alien to majority rule have been working assiduously to derail the country’s hard won democracy. Speaking while declaring opened the 48th edition of the National Council on Information And National Orientation on Friday in Kaduna, Sani accused them of manipulating Nigerians and…
