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The visit of Yobe State Governor, Ibrahim Gaidam, to Dapchi turned messy as officials were injured and seven vehicles damaged following pelting of his convoy with stones by residents of the town. Boko Haram insurgents had Monday stormed Government Girls Technical College in Dapchi and disappeared with 46 schoolgirls. Some of the girls who fled into the bushes in the area had returned to the school. The crowd, on sighting the governor in the area Thursday threw stones at his convoy, injuring some of his aides as well as government officials. The anger seemed to have been precipitated by the…

More than 549 deaths and displacement of thousands in 12 states in the last 12 months were recorded, Amnesty International stated, accusing the Federal Government of unlawful killings, torture and detention of persons. Enumerating a litany of mishaps it encapsulated in 15 human rights issues in Nigeria, the London-based Non-Governmental Organisation, in its 2017/2018 annual report also lamented that inter-communal violence linked to lingering clashes between herdsmen and farming communities resulted in It reported that ”Boko Haram carried out at least 65 attacks causing 411 civilian deaths, and abducted at least 73 people. Sixteen women, including 10 policewomen, were abducted…

The Council of States Thursday endorsed $1 billion from the current $200 million to boost agriculture and empower livestock farmers including the Fulani herdsmen. The Council also recommended inter-state security joint operations to flush out bandits, especially those operating from the forests. Governor Abubakar Badaru of Jigawa State, alongside Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State and Willy Obiano of Anambra State, stated this while briefing State House correspondents after a six-hour Council of States meeting, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa, Abuja. The financial assistance to cattle farmers, they said, was not designed to…

The crisis in the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC has taken another dimension with Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the party’s lead trouble shooter accusing Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, the national chairman of erecting barriers to peace in the party. Tinubu in a letter dated February 21, 2018, specifically accused the national chairman of festering the crises through unilateral decisions regarding the crises in the Kogi, Kaduna and Adamawa chapters of the party. Meanwhile, the APC National Working Committee, NWC has constituted a team of national officers to investigate the fresh rumpus in the Kaduna State chapter of the party which led to…

A returnee professor of Econometrics who incurred the wrath of police for allegedly operating an illegal organisation in Nigeria, has been paraded, the Force Headquarters has confirmed. Brimmy Olaghere, a returnee US-based university don was alleged to have duped many unsuspecting jobless Nigerians under the pretext of giving them job in the organisation he established in United African States, USA with head office in Abuja. Parading the suspects in Abuja, Jimoh Moshood, the Force Public Relations Officer, said the force through credible information at its disposal, revealed that the organisation was among several others that “have started acquiring weapons and conducting covert…

The President and Chief Executive, Dangote Group, Mr. Aliko Dangote, has said his companies’ annual revenue for 2017 exceeded $4.1 billion. Dangote also stated that the group planned to invest $4.6 billion in the next three years on sugar, rice and dairy production alone. Speaking during the Dangote Food Distributors Award night in Lagos, Dangote said, “In 2017, our annual revenues exceeded $4.1 billion. Our new projects include the world’s largest single train petroleum refinery, which is being built in Ibeju-Lekki here in Lagos at the cost of $12 billion. ”This, we believe, will address Nigeria’s energy needs and eliminate…

General Ibrahim Babangida, a former Military Head of State, Goodluck Jonathan, Alhaji Shehu Shagari and Chief Ernest Shonekan, ex-Presidents were conspicuously absent at Thursday’s Council of States meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. At the time the meeting started few minutes after 11 a.m. before journalists left the venue only Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Yakubu Gowon and Abdulsalami Abubakar, three former Heads of State along side President Muhammadu Buhari were at the venue. The meeting, which is the third under the democratic administration of President Buhari, was also attended for the first time by Ayodele Fayose, Ekiti State governor. The Council of States…

Nigeria is ranked 148th country in Corruption Perception Index (CPI) in the world, according to a report by Transparency International (TI). A report released Wednesday by the Global anti-corruption watchdog to mark its 25 years of operations since its establishment in 1995 indicates that corruption was getting worse in Nigeria. While the country scored 27/100 and was ranked 136th in 2016, the latest CPI scores Nigeria 28/100 with 148 out of 180 countries surveyed — a significant 12 place below that of the previous year. This frightening rating has dealt a blow to the President Muhammadu Buhari administration that has…

A man who allegedly strangled his wife to death in their apartment in Agemowo area of Badagry, last December, has appeared before Magistrate court, Lagos for murder. Vanguard learned that police arrested the suspect, Akinyemi Edgar Koja, a bricklayer in an undisclosed area around Lagos Island, where he had taken refuge since the incident occurred. He was Tuesday charged to Magistrate court 12 Ebute Metta for murder from where he was remanded in prison custody by the Magistrate, Mrs Bola Folarin Williams, with the case adjourned to March 28 for hearing. During interrogation, the suspect stated that he carried out the act out of…

More than 20 shops in the building located at Iwebo lane behind Oba Market, Benin City were razed and property worth millions of naira lost over alleged refusal of tenants to pay their rents to the landlord. Mr. Idemudia Obamwonyi is said to have set ablaze the house he inherited from his late father. An eye witness said Idemudia stubbornly stopped those who made attempts to stop the fire insisting that it was better for him to get the house burnt since the tenants refused to pay their rents rather than allow them continue to live in the house. It…