The Kaduna state government says troops have neutralised many bandits,including some of those behind the kidnapping in 2021 of students of the Federal College of Forestry and the security breached at the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), Kaduna. Samuel Aruwan, the commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday in…
No fewer than 20 people were said to have been killed in attacks on communities in Taraba State by invading fulani terrorists. Several communities were also said to have been sacked by the criminals. It was learnt that the affected communities are located in Yangtu Development Area and Ussa Local Government Area of the state….
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has said any airline transacting business in Nigeria in foreign currency is an enemy of the country. In a statement on Friday in Kaduna, Audu Ogbe, Chairman of the forum, said, “No airline wishing any country good should involve itself in sabotaging its economy through dwarfing the value of its…
The Department of State Services (DSS) have raided the residences of two relations of Tukur Mamu, the train hostage negotiator. In a statement on Friday, Ibrahim Mada, Special Projects Manager, Desert Herald newspaper, published by Mamu, said the DSS stormed the Kaduna residences of the publisher’s brother, Ibrahim Mamu and his brother in-law, Abdullahi Mashi…
Queen Elizabeth II, the UK’s longest-serving monarch, has died at Balmoral aged 96, after reigning for 70 years. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reports that the Queen died peacefully at Balmoral on Thursday afternoon. The Queen came to the throne in 1952 and witnessed enormous social change. With her death, her eldest son Charles, the…
Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike, on Thursday insisted that it is against the constitution of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the national chairman and presidential candidate to come from the same region. Speaking at the inauguration of a campus of the Rivers State University in Ahoada east LGA of the state, the resignation of…
