The United States has accused the Nigerian government for not bringing anyone to justice for the killing of members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) also known as Shiites. The US also frowned at how Nigerian courts continue to convict citizens for blasphemy, sentence them to long-term imprisonment and death. US Secretary of State,…
By Daniel Dauda, Jos Plateau state governor, Mr. Simon Lalong, has said the late Gen. Joshua Nimyel Dogonyaro was always advising him on how to handle security matters in the state. Dogonyaro died on Thursday at the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH), following an illness. Speaking when he paid a condolence visit to the family…
By Daniel Dauda in Jos Hundreds of residents of Abattoir Area, Giring Ward in Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau state on Friday, protest against alleged nefarious activities of a Lebanese who specialised in defiling minors. The residents who trooped to the Giring Police Station in their numbers alleged further that the Lebanese made…
Parents of the remaining 16 and abducted students and a staff of Greenfield University, Kaduna, on Friday appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to help secure the release of the students before “something sinister happens to them.” On April 18, 2021, bandits invaded the school at about 8:30am and abducted 23 students including some staff. The…
The late General Joshua Dogonyaro (rtd), who died on Thursday at the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) at a ripe age of 80, will be remembered for many things during his military carrier. One is the coup speech he read when the military regime of then Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, the current Nigerian President was…
Members of the minority parties from the 19 northern states in the House of Representatives have asked President Muhammadu Buhari to redress his skewed appointments which have divided the nation along ethnic and religious lines. The lawmakers also endorsed the position of the 17 Southern Governors Forum on open grazing and the restructuring of the…
