January 2020

Plateau governor and chairman, Northern Governors Forum, Simon Lalong, has directed the state Police Commmissioner, Isaac Akinmoyede, to arrest and detain community leaders in local councils where killings occured with a view to identifying the perpetrators of the  crime.

He said the community leaders should not be released until they produce the  masterminds of the recent killings in Mangu and Bokkos local government areas of the state.

Lalong gave the directive yesterday, during a security meeting with stakeholders from Bokkos, Mangu, Barkin-Ladi and Riyom local government areas, held at Government House, Jos. Police confirmed 13 persons dead and five injured …

The leadership of the Imo State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party has said the seat of the defectors would be declared vacant.

This is as just the party said that it would invoke the extant laws to ensure that the anomaly is corrected.

Recall that eight members of the state House of Assembly elected on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party defected to the All Progressives Congress on Tuesday.

Imo PDP legal adviser, Mr. Gerry Egemba who stated this said that the party would invoke the extant laws against the defectors, noting that they had no reason to …

The winner of the Saturday rerun election for Njaba State constituency at the Imo State House of Assembly, Uju Onwudiwe, has confirmed that she would be defecting from her party, the Action Alliance (AA), to the All Progressive Congress (APC) as soon as she is sworn-in.

Onwudiwe, who disclosed this to Daily Sun in Owerri, said that this has been the initial plan of the party members who she said were loyal to the governorship candidate of their party, Uche Nwosu.

According to the lawmaker, the only delay in defecting to the APC had been the Supreme Court judgement …

Borno State governor, Babagana Zulum has sworn in 26 special advisers including two non-natives from the southwest and southeast parts of the country.

Zulum at a brief ceremony at the Maiduguri Government House on Wednesday said their appointments were based on their contributions to the state in their various endeavours and success of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the last elections.

The governor who was represented by his deputy, Umar Kadafur, urged them to show more dedication to their duties to justify the confidence repose on them.

Among the appointees included Alhaji Yusuf Alao from Oyo State and …

A coalition of extractive sector non-governmental organisations have called for adoption of legal reforms which foster transparency as a long lasting panacea to rampant violence in the artisanal and small scale mining.

In press statement released by the Publish What You Pay (Zimbabwe), the civic groups called on government to embrace transparency reforms, saying the opaque nature of mining operations and governance are part of the root cause of Machete violence.

They also urged government to decriminalize the artisanal and small scale mining by regulating their activities.

“As the government of Zimbabwe takes action to contain machete gangs who have …