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Confusion seems to be trailing Federal Government planning to dump ranches and set up colonies with facilities for herdsmen to rear their cattle in states of the federation. Before now, Federal Government had contemplated establishing ranches in different states of the federation to ease growing tension between the herdsmen and the farmers. It was rumoured that the government had sent a bill to the National Assembly for deliberation and passage into law, an action the government vehemently denied. Government’s inertia in finding lasting solution to the herdsmen/farmers’ clashes have led to the death of scores of farmers and other defenceless…

Igwedibia Johnson (a.k.a Don Wanny), the notorious militant leader from Omoku in Rivers State, killed Sunday by a joint security forces had once resided along Fulga Street in Uyo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State 24 years ago as an innocent and hard working businessman; an investigation by StraightNews has shown. StraightNews gathered from an anonymous source that Wanni, who lived in a house close to Faith and Power Church from 1994 to 1998 as a big boy, operated a drinking joint along Idoro road in Uyo and was an owner of a BMW car then. “I used to…

A 28-year-old Nigerian lady, who bagged first class in both her first and master’s degrees, has now bagged PH.d from the Herriot Watts University. She studied from 2013-2017. The lady, Veronica Ebiweni Omofoma, made her academic mark by bagging first class in Electronic Electrical engineering in her first degree and Master’s in Engineering from the University of Hull from 2007 – 2011. She emerged the best overall graduating student in the University of Hull, United Kingdom. A popular Nigerian comedian, Alibaba, who took to his Instagram, said “she graduated with first class in Electronic/Electrical Engineering in the first degree, first…

The people of Niger State and in neighbouring states are panicked over the January 5 deadline given by some youths in the state to the Abuja Electricity Development Company (AEDC) to improve its services by ensuring uninterrupted supply of electricity for 24 hours daily or face the consequences. Consequently, the security operatives in the state and the government are gripped with fear by the threat because similar threat to occupy AEDC offices issued by the youths was carried out and it resulted in four-day blackout in Minna and environs last December. Their threat to blow up the three hydroelectric dams…

In 12 months, Akwa Ibom State has gotten three Commissioners of Police, investigation by StraightNews shows. Don Awunah, the Commissioner of Police in Akwa Ibom State, was transferred from the state barely seven months after assuming office. Mr. Awunah, the 21st commissioner of police in the state, took over from his predecessor, Muritala Mani, in January 2017. Don Awunah, was also transferred from the state barely seven months after assuming office. According to the then police spokesperson in the state, Ikechukwu Chukwu, Mr. Awunah was transferred to the Nigeria Police Academy, Kano. Until his posting to Akwa Ibom, Mr. Awunah…

After languishing 53 days in kidnappers’ den, three Catholic Reverend Sisters and three women, who were kidnapped by gunmen in Edo State, have regained their freedom. The sisters are serving with the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Convent while the other women were picked from another location. The Superior-General of the convent, Sister Agatha Osarekhoe, confirmed the development on Sunday. According to her, one of the victims, Veronica Ajayi, was released at about 6 p.m. on Saturday, while the other five were released 12 midnight Sunday. It was not clear if ransom had been paid the abductors who had initially demanded…

An Akwa Ibom Pentecostal pastor has berated Nigerian leaders who are not free from tissues of corruption, but take the lead in the crusade against corruption practices. Dr. Sylvanus Ukafia, who is the state Chairman of Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Akwa Ibom branch, lamented that apart from some Nigerian leaders who crusade against corruption being naïve and biased, yet they are enmeshed in corruption practices. Preaching Sunday to mark first Sunday in the New Year service at Insight Bible Church, Uyo, he lamented a situation where some leaders do not know their date of birth, yet they want to…

Public primary school teachers in Kaduna State will commence indefinite strike on Monday, January 8 in solidarity of their 21,780 members sacked by the state government. In a notice of strike dated January 4, 2018 and signed by the union’s Assistant Secretary General, Adamu Anglo, the state Wing of the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) directed its members to proceed without delay. NAN reports that the teachers were sacked for allegedly failing to score 75 per cent pass mark of the competency test organised by the state government in June 2017. The notice, circulated to all the union executives in…

Northern elders, Sunday, have repudiated the stand of their chairman, Chief Paul Unongo, on his position that former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, is the chief financier of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association. The association is said to oppose Anti-open Grazing legislation in Benue State and reportedly behind the killings in the state. Alhaji Yerima Shettima, a member of the NEF, told Sunday Vanguard in a telephone interview that the forum of Northern leaders had not met for a long time and had never taken any position on the killings in Benue and many other parts of Nigeria. Yerima, who…

The Chairman of the Northern Elders Forum, Paul Unongo has branded Atiku Abubakar,  former Vice President a sponsor of Fulani herdsmen who have been killing hundreds of Nigerians. Unongo who said this during an interview with one of our correspondents on Friday described Atiku as a prince of the Tiv Court, a chief financier and most influential member of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, the apex body of Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria. The NEF Chairman said, “I am aware that the most powerful person in Miyetti Allah is Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, who wants to be the next…