January 2021

The newly appointed Service Chiefs on Sunday afternoon arrived Maiduguri the Borno State capital to meet critical stakeholders and brainstorm on strategies to end the protracted Boko Haram insurgency.

The Service Chiefs who were appointed a few days ago by President Muhammadu Buhari were led on the visit by the Chief of Defence Staff, Major General Lucky Irabor.

They torched down at the headquarters of the Air Task Force of Operation Lafiya Dole in Maiduguri on Sunday afternoon at about 1330 hours.

With the Chief of Defence were Chief of Army Staff, Maj. General Ibrahim Attahiru; Chief of Naval Staff, …

Russian Police on Sunday detained more than 4,400 people across Russia and blocked off the center of Moscow in a massive clampdown on protesters who are demanding the release of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.

Thousands of protesters defied government warnings to rally from Vladivostok to Saint Petersburg in the second weekend of mass demonstrations over the arrest of President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent opponent.

Navalny was detained at a Moscow airport in mid-January after flying back to Russia from Germany where he was recovering from an August poisoning he blames on the Kremlin.

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Following the activities of some herders perpetrating criminal activities in Ondo State in the past few months, the status of the state as one of the most peaceful in Nigeria is gradually being eroded.

With kidnappings and banditry holding sway in most parts of the state, the Northern Senatorial District of the State has been the most hit with the daring moves of criminals operating under the guise of herders.

The dreaded roads which had become a haven for kidnapping activities allegedly perpetrated by herders include, Owo-Ose highway, Akure-Owo highway …

The International body vested with the responsibility of settling disputes related to Sports through Arbitration, The Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS), has temporarily reinstated former CAF President, Ahmad Ahmad.

The Malagasy who has been President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) since March 17, 2017 was banned for five years by FIFA in November 2020 for financial misconduct.

The FIFA ethics committee found ‘Ahmad had breached his duty of loyalty, offered gifts and other benefits, mismanaged funds and abused his position as the CAF President.’

Ahmad, a former Government official in Madagascar, was also fined 200,000 Swiss francs …

A commandant of Oyo State Security Network Agency also known as Amotekun in one of the local government areas in the state is dead.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the deceased, Mr. Tajudeen Idowu Salaudeen, who until his death, commandant of Amotekun in Kajola local government area died on Thursday.

Our correspondent learnt that the deceased died in a motorcycle accident.

The deceased, who is also known as Arogunmasa (the one that does not run because of war) was on his way to Okeho town when the incident occurred.

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