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Benue State, Governor Samuel Ortom has claimed that the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration cannot even be compared to the worst of military governments in Nigeria.

Ortom asserted that Nigerians were better off during the military regimes than Buhari’s present administration.

He noted that Nigeria is more divided along ethnic and religious lines under Buhari’s administration than all previous governments.

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The governor disclosed this while speaking with journalists in Makurdi, the state capital yesterday.

Ortom accused the current Federal Government of deceiving Nigerians.

According to Ortom: ‘I have been privileged …

President Muhammadu Buhari’s assistant on social media Lauretta Onochie has opened up on why her principal will not release Nnamdi Kanu.

According to her, the President would not release the secessionist leader because of the killing of notable and average Nigerians in the South-East region by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).

Onochie accused the secessionist leader of having led to the death of many Nigerians including Chike Akunyili, husband of a former Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, late Prof Dora Akunyili.

Onochie was reacting to the call by civil societies, traditional, opinion, …

The crisis rocking the Plateau Assembly took a new twist on Monday as the embattled factional Speaker, Abok Ayuba, was taken away by in a police van from the assembly complex.

As he was being led away by a police team led by the Commissioner of Police in the state,Edward Egbuka, Ayuba in a brief chat with journalists said he did not know whether he was arrested or not.

The crisis rocking the Assembly was set off when Ayuba was impeached by 8 members of the assembly who also elected Yakubu Sanda as the new Speaker on 27 October.

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Governorship candidates in the forthcoming Anambra election have called for dialogue with secessionist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra.

Candidates of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Andy Uba; All Progressives Grand Alliance, Professor Chukwuma Soludo and Valentine Ozigbo of the Peoples Democratic Party made the call during their Live Debate organised by Arise News on Monday.

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‘I believe in engagement. If you don’t engage them, how will you know what their problem is? I believe in engagement to dialogue because their problem is work,’ Uba said when asked to

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has dismissed insinuations that he supports RUGA by applying for funds meant to implement the policy being imposed on Nigerians by the Federal Government.

The Governor insisted that the state is only working in line with the recommendations as contained in the National Livestock Transformation Plan, NLTP document as approved by the National Economic Council, NEC to enhance ranching and not for RUGA settlements.

Governor Ortom made the clarification Monday, November 1, 2021 while fielding questions from newsmen at the Makurdi Airport on his return from the PDP National Convention in Abuja.

He stated that …

Senator Shehu Sani, a former federal lawmaker, has asked the government to go ahead and declare bandits as federal civil servants since it is becoming difficult for them to pronounce them terrorists.

Well-meaning Nigerians, individuals and groups have provided various reason the Buhari administration should declare bandits’ groups in the North as terrorists.

However, the government has remained adamant to the calls, saying that there is a process to declare a group as a terrorist organisation.

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Bandits and kidnappers are on rampage in the North West, killing, kidnapping and maiming …

There was pandemonium at the Plateau State House of Assembly in the early hours of Monday as thugs gained access from the back of the Assembly complex to wreak havoc and attempt to remove members who were already sitted in the House.

The security operatives were taken by surprise when some unknown persons made their way through the back of the House to stop the embattled Speaker, Abok Ayuba, and some members of the House from going ahead with any proceedings which led to a response and clash with youths who were protesting outside the complex in support of the …

President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday played host to National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu in Aso Rock.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that both men held a closed-door meeting.

Tinubu ton newsmen at the end of the meeting, the former governor of Lagos stated that he was at the presidential villa to thank the president for visiting him in London where he sought medical treatment.

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‘I came to thank President Muhammadu Buhari for visiting me in London when I had a knee surgery. He …

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has condemned the raid on the residence of a Supreme Court judge, Justice Mary Odili, by security operatives.

Africa Daily News, New York recalls that security operatives invaded Odili’s home on Friday, based on claims that “illegal activities” were going on there.

The search warrant showed that the panel comprises the EFCC, the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), and the Ministry of Justice.

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But, the anti-graft agency denied reports that its operatives were behind the raid.

Reacting, in a press statement issued by the media office of Atiku, …