The former Catholic Archbishop of Abuja Diocese, Archbishop John Onaiyekan has asked the current administration led by President Muhammadu Buhari to vacate power if it has run out of ideas on how to protect lives and property.
The celebrated Archbishop stated this while speaking with journalists in Minna, Niger State capital, after the ordination of the Auxiliary Bishop of Minna Diocese, the Cleric lamented the high rate of crime in the country.
Onaiyekan, who rejected the idea of negotiating with bandits, asked those in government to ‘stop pretending‘ that they are in charge, saying non-state actors are making …
The former governor of Lagos State and APC national leader, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has appealed to Nigerians not to turn the security challenges in the country into ethnic, tribal, or religious crises warning that any war in Nigeria would completely submerge west Africa.
Tinubu, who spoke on Friday during the eighth-day Fidau prayer for late Lateef Jakande, first civilian governor of Lagos state, said that if there is war in Nigeria, the whole region would be completely destabilized.
He said; ‘Nigeria is currently facing crises, the crisis of insurgency, of banditry and all aspects of insecurity. But God …
Days after the abduction of school children in Kagara Town, armed bandits on Saturday evening launched another attack on Gurmana Ward in Shiroro local government area of Niger state.
African Daily News can confirm that over 15 people are suspected to have drowned in River Kaduna as they tried to escape from the bandit’s attack, the exact number of Saturday’s victims is yet to be ascertained.
Sources said that the bandits were armed with sophisticated weapons and were shooting sporadically when they entered the community.
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Chairman of the South West Governors Forum, Rotimi Akeredolu has fired a warning to his Bauchi State counterpart asking him ‘not to set Nigeria on fire with his statements’.
The Ondo State Governor was reacting to the statement credited to the Bauchi Governor, Bala Mohammed, that Nigerians don’t need his permission to live in forests reserve describing the statement as ‘provoking and insensitive’ to say the least.
Akeredolu had earlier directed herdsmen in the state government forest reserve in Ondo state to vacate or register with the state following the spate of kidnappings, killings, rape, and other criminal activities.
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Members of Fright Forwarders Transport Association have barricaded the Port Harcourt International Airport Junction, stopping vehicular movements.
The members of the Association blocked the roads with their containers in protest against an attack on one of their members by security operatives at a checkpoint around the airport junction.
Africa Daily News, New York reports that the incident took place Friday night after an argument broke out between a security agent and a driver.
As at press time, there is no vehicular movement around the Airport junction as members have vowed to …
The renewed troubleshooting of renowned Kaduna-based Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahnad Gumi, has continued to cause controversies among Nigerians, especially on the social media platform, Twitter.
Nigerians were first piqued when reports and images surfaced online of the meeting Gumi had with two set of bandits in forests in Zamfara State.
In the images that accompanied the reports, the Islamic cleric was seen with heavily armed bandits, who gleefully told him that they took up arms because of the certain injustices done to them by the Nigerian state.
The images took many …
The Deputy Speaker, Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon Felicia Bassey, has advocated the emergence of a woman as president of Nigeria.
Bassey made the call following the emergence of Ngozi Okonjo Iweala as the head of the World Trade Organisation and Kamala Harry as Vice President of the United States of America, USA.
She said Nigerian women have the intellectual capacity and other endowments to lead the country.
In an interview on Friday, the lawmaker said the perennial issue of insecurity and economic downturn in …
The king of Eswatini formerly Swaziland on Friday revealed that he had recovered from Covid-19 in January after taking an anti-viral drug sent by Taiwan, with which the kingdom maintains diplomatic relations.
The tiny southern African country is the only state on the continent still resisting Chinese pressure to cut ties with Taiwan, which Beijing regards as a renegade province.
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King Mswati III, Africa’s last absolute monarch, on Friday thanked the Taiwanese president for sending the medication, which he did not name, and said the government would ‘immediately‘ procure …
The Reds are heading into this fixture on a positive note, as they grabbed a crucial triumph against RB Leipzig in the UEFA Champions League Round of 16 first leg.
The reigning champions have been going through a rough patch for quite a while now, and they are well aware of the fact that from now on, they need to be steady enough for the remaining games to ensure their spot
According to a report from SITE Intelligence Group, the Islamic State group yesterday claimed responsibility for the February 3 killing of four soldiers in a rugged region of central Tunisia.
SITE which is a US monitor of jihadist groups on Thursday said that the soldiers were killed in three blasts ignited by its fighters near Mount Mghila and that a ‘spy‘ was beheaded separately by IS.
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The defense ministry announced the losses the same day, saying the soldiers in ‘a military unit tasked with carrying …
Odua Peoples Congress, Agbekoya, Hunters Group, Isokan Ile Yoruba, Vigilante Group of Nigeria, Ibarapa Group, and Community Society Awareness Initiative have vowed to do everything they can to defend Yorubaland against invasion by killer herdsmen.
This was made known in a communique issued after their meeting on Friday in Lagos. The groups, under the aegis of South-West Security Stakeholders, urged the Obas and traditional leaders of Yorubaland to always inform them of any invasion in their domain or territory.
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The Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki has blamed the heightened tension in the state over the idea of grazing lands on those he described as the same political opponents he discredited and defeated in the last gubernatorial poll in the state.
The governor who had been reported to have earlier promised to establish grazing lands for herders, but in a swift twist, while speaking to State House correspondents after meeting with the Chief of Staff to the President, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, at the presidential villa, Abuja, weekend, he said his government was only encouraging private citizens to do business …
