The United States House of Representatives has issued a resolution urging both the Nigerian and the US. governments to prioritise the rescue of the remaining Chibok girls who were kidnapped a decade ago. April 14, 2024, marked 10 years since 276 girls of the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, a community in Borno State,…
The management of the Federal College of Education (Special), Oyo State, on Tuesday, denied having any of its lecturers among the suspected Yoruba Nation agitators. On Saturday, some masked persons with weapons invaded the state Government Secretariat at Agodi in Ibadan, the state capital and 21 of them were arrested by the joint security personnel deployed to…
The Senior Pastor of Kingsway International Christian Centre, Mathew Ashimolowo, has asked the Federal Government to address the rising hunger and poverty ravaging the country. Ashimolowo, who made the call at the birthday celebration of Apostle Lawrence Achudume held in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, on Monday, lamented that there was a huge gap between the…
The Governor of Katsina State, Dikko Radda, has inaugurated 10 armoured vehicles to fight bandits and other criminals in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the governor inaugurated the armoured vehicles on Monday in Katsina. Radda said the vehicles would be deployed by the state joint security teams to effectively fight bandits…
The Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, on Tuesday, signed an executive order proscribing ethnic vigilance groups in the state. Signing the executive order in Lafia, Sule gave members of the Kungiwar Zaman Lafiya Nomad Vigilante, Bassa Vigilante, Eggon Vigilante and other similar organisations operating in the state, two weeks to hand over all their weapons…
The Air component of Operation Hadin Kai has executed a precision airstrike on the hideouts of ISWAP terrorists, killing over 30 of their fighters within Kolleram village along the shores of Lake Chad. The Director, Public Relations and Information, Nigerian Air Force, AVM Edward Gabkwet, stated this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. Gabkwet…
The Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, has warned youths in the Okuama community and environs to shun violence and avoid being used as cannon fodders. A Tuesday statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Daniel Alabrah, noted that Diri urged the people of Igbomotoru 1 and 2 communities in the Southern…
The faction of New Nigeria People’s Party under the leadership of Major Agbo on Tuesday suspended the Governor of Kano State, Abba Yusuf, for six months over his failure to appear before its disciplinary committee to defend an alleged Infraction on the party’s constitution. Yusuf’s suspension was announced by the National Secretary of the faction,…
Israel’s foreign minister Israel Katz has disclosed that he wrote to 32 countries and spoke with dozens of foreign ministers following the major Iranian attack on Israel. He called for sanctions to be imposed on Iran’s missile programme and for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to be declared a terrorist organisation. “This morning I sent…
Napoli are leaning heavily on proceeds from Victor Osimhen’s sale to shore up the team ahead of 2024/25, The Azzurri look to quickly shake off their nightmarish season that has seen them falter terribly in their Serie A title defence. The club’s president, Aurelio De Laurentiis, is aware that a decisive response is needed in the…
A Pro-Democracy group, ‘Kwara Must Change’, has told Arewa PUNCH that it is galvanising a political revolution in 2019 aimed at sustaining the newly installed progressive order in Kwara State come 2027. The group which disclosed that it rallied over 70 youth groups in 2018 to rescue Kwara State from the Saraki dynasty stressed that the mission…
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, says the Nigerian Army has made considerable progress in stabilising the nation’s security in spite of a few obvious challenges. Lagbaja said this at the opening of the First Quarter of the Chief of Army Staff Conference 2024, on Tuesday in Abuja. He said but for…
