February 23, 2021

A  group of Niger Delta militants that calls themselves Supreme Egbesu Liberation Fighters, has threatened to destroy critical infrastructure in Lagos and Abuja.

In a short video posted on Tuesday by Africa Independent Television (AIT), the group accused the federal government of marginalizing the region and also reneging on its promise to deliver on the amnesty programme.

A masked member of the group while reading from a written statement in the video said, after accepting the amnesty pact, ’till date, there are no schools, no potable water, no light, no hospital and access roads for our people to enjoy’.…

Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi has stated that what Nigeria is witnessing, whether banditry or kidnapping, has no name other than terrorism.

Gov. Fayemi, who is also the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, made this clarification on Tuesday when he paid a visit to his Niger State counterpart, Abubakar Sani Bello.

He was reacting to the recent kidnapping of some students and staff of the Government Science College, Kagara in Rafi Local Government in Niger State by bandits.

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He said, ‘At the level of the governors’ forum, we met …

Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai, have stated that Nigeria has the highest number of poor people in the world a development which he believes is worrisome while calling on government at all levels to do better than they are currently doing to reverse the ugly trend.

The governor made the remark at the launch of the Social Protection Agency in the state capital on Tuesday.

He said his government established the agency to ensure that all social protection programmes are delivered in an integrated, inclusive and sustainable manner.

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Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine on Monday disclosed that he was abandoning a legal bid to overturn the results of last month’s presidential election, accusing the judiciary of lack of independence and favouring veteran ruler Yoweri Museveni.

The 76-year-old former rebel leader won a sixth term in office on January 14 with 58 percent of the vote. Wine, a 39-year-old singer-turned-lawmaker, came second with 35 percent and decried the election as a sham.

He filed a petition in the Supreme Court on February 1 challenging the result, alleging voter intimidation, the abduction of his party officials, and widespread rigging including …