August 2021

Two Katsina State House of Assembly members on Monday burst into uncontrollable tears at a plenary as the legislators deliberated over the issue of insecurity afflicting many Local Government Areas of the state.

Africa Daily News, New York gahered that the Deputy Speaker of the house, Alhaji Shehu Dalhatu-Tafoki, had earlier presented a motion of urgent public importance over the level of insecurity in the state at the plenary presided over by the Speaker, Alhaji Tasi’u Maigari.

According to Dalhatu-Tafoki, (APC Faskari), despite the efforts of the federal, state governments, and the security agencies, the security problem was increasing everyday …

Nigeria’s Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has denied any interest in the 2023 election as being widely speculated.

This is according to a statement issued on Monday by his media aide, Laolu Akande.

He said his principal is rather focused on working in his capacity as the Vice President to address the various challenges facing the country, including finding effective and lasting solutions to the security challenges and working to further boost the economy.

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‘The Office of the Vice President is not in any way connected with the distribution …

Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari has described calls to break up Nigeria as unpatriotic and also appealing to the media to stop giving voice and platform to those with such intentions.

Masari spoke in Kaduna, weekend while receiving awards from Nagarta, a Kaduna-based Amplitude Modulation radio station.

The Governor who was represented by the state Commissioner for Information, AbdulKarim Sirika, the governor said the media had a greater role to play to keep Nigeria united in the face of calls for secession and break up of the country.

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Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has threatened to drag President Muhammadu Buhari to court should he insist on going ahead with any policy that will support open grazing or grazing reserve in the country.

Gov Ortom made gave this threat when he spoke with newsmen on Sunday after arriving Makurdi from Asaba. He insisted that under his watch, the state will never accept open grazing.

While maintaining that the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria supercedes the Northern Nigeria Law that provided for Grazing Reserves, the Governor said the State government will not accept the Grazing Reserve Policy, insisting …

Bishop Callistus Onaga has lamented the alarming rate of agitations in several parts of the country, pointing out that the development is worrisome.

Onaga who is the Catholic Bishop of Enugu Diocese, made the assertion during the second plenary of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) in Enugu on Sunday, calling Nigerians to pray for solutions to the numerous challenges facing the nation.

‘Politically, the current wave of agitations all over the country is very worrisome. This informed the picking of the title of this homily ‘Will you also go away.’

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