January 23, 2021

Nasarawa State Governor Abdullahi Sule has alerted President Muhammadu Buhari over the presence of Suspected members of the terror sect, Boko Haram, in the state causing security concerns and threatening peaceful existence.

The governor briefed the President on the issue yesterday when he visited after which he spoke to reporters.

According to him, the Boko Haram members were dislodged from a location along the Abuja/Nasarawa borders last year, only for them to resurface at the Nasarawa/Benue State borders.

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They are already wrecking new forms of havoc, he said, amidst reports …

The Russian police have arrested no fewer than 1,500 protesters and forcefully broke up rallies around the country on Saturday.

Tens of thousands of protesters demanded the release of Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny, whose wife was among those detained, Aljazeera reports.

Navalny who was arrested last weekend called on his supporters to protest Saturday.

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He was arrested after he returned to Russia from Germany for the first time since being poisoned with a nerve agent he says was applied to his underpants by state security agents in August.

The authorities …

Portugal suffered record daily numbers of coronavirus deaths and new infections Saturday, official figures showed, the day before the country is set to vote in a presidential election.

According to the national health authority, the total Covid-19 toll topped 10,000 deaths after a further 274 fatalities in 24 hours.

Meanwhile, at 15,333, the number of new cases identified in the country of 10 million people was the highest since the beginning of the pandemic.

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The latest figures come on top of 80,000 new infections in the past week, making …

Following the prevailing insecurity in Ondo State occasioned by the activities of kidnappers and bandits, Governor Okuwarotimi Akeredolu on Friday gave a nod to the massive recruitment into the state Security Network otherwise known as Amotekun Corps.

According to the approval memo, the categories of officers to be recruited were regular officers, intelligence corps as well as volunteers.

The approved massive recruitment is the second batch since the creation of the security agency as part of the efforts of the governor to beef up the operation of the security outfit in fulfillment of its mandate as contained in the Ondo …