The Kaduna state government has confirmed the killing of a student and the abduction of 10 others including lectures by bandits at the state owned Nuhu Bamali Polytechnic, Zaria. The bandits were said to have invaded the school on Thursday night at about 11pm, unleashing terror on the students and staff. In a statement on…
Eight people have been abducted by gunmen who invdaded Nuhu Bamali Polytechnic, Zaria, Kaduna state on Thursday night. However, three of the victims were said to have been released on Friday morning. One of the two students who were shot by the hoodlums was said to have died in the hospital on Friday morning. The…
The United States Secretary of States, Antony Blinken, has condemned the suspension of Twitter by the Nigerian government, saying, restricting the use of social media has no place in a democracy. Blinken’s spokesman, Ned Price, in a statement on Thursday, said, “The United States condemns the ongoing suspension of Twitter by the Nigerian government and…
In this interview with Daniel Dauda in Jos, the President of Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA), Rev. Stephen Panya, speaks on the recent public hearing on the amendment of the 1999 Constitution and the need for Christians to change their perceptions about politics: Excepts. You have been talking about insecurity, the Church has also raised…
The immediate past United States Secretary of State and former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Mike Pompeo, has decried the massacre of Christians in Nigeria, saying that least 1,500 Christians have been killed in the last six months. In an article published on Wednesday in American Centre for Law and Justice (https://aclj.org/), Pompeo…
The federal government has declared Monday, June 14, as public holiday to mark Democracy Day. The was contained in a statement on Thursday by Shuaib Belgore, Permanent Secretary, ministry of interior. The statement quoted the Interior minister, Rauf Aregbesola, urging Nigerians to embrace the spirit of brotherliness for peace to thrive in the nation. The…
