The Tiv Professionals Group (TPG), an umbrella body for some professionals from the Tiv ethnic nationality, Benue State, have called on all patriots to come together and salvage the country from the deadly activities of bandits, Boko Haram and other criminal elements threatening the corporate existence of the country. In a position paper on the…
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the suspension of the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman A statement signed by Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu on Thursday, said the suspension followed a recommendation by Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, to set up an administrative panel of inquiry to investigate the management of…
Prominent Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, says bandits who threatened to kill the remaining students of Greenfield University, Kaduna,have agreed that they will not killed them. The bandits had recently threatened to kill the students who they abducted in the school on April 18, 2021 if the parents fail to pay a N100 million and…
Parents of the 27 students of Federal College of Forestry Mechanization, Afaka, Kaduna, who were freed on Wednesday after 56 days in kidnappers’ den, have appealed to the federal government to ensure safety of educational institutions so as to give parents the confidence to send their children to school. In a statement on Thursday in…
The Kaduna state government has said that 13 kidnapped people have been rescued by troops following a fierce gun battle with bandits in Gwagwada community, Chikun Local Government Area of the state. The commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr. Samuel Aruwan disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Kaduna. The commissioner said…
The remaining 29 students of the abducted students of Federal College of Forestry, Afaka, Kaduna have regained their freedom after 55 days in captivity. Chairman of the Forum of Parents of the 39 Abducted Students, Abdullahi Usman, confirmed the release of the students in an interview. Yes, they have been released. “They did not sleep…
