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Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President and 2019 Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, has asked President Buhari not to “rationalise killings.” Atiku made the statement while reacting President Muhammadu Buhari’s statement that 90 percent of Boko Haram’s victims in the past years have been Muslims. Reacting to the President’s comment, Atiku Abubakar said the killing of any human being irrespective of religion must be condemned unequivocally. Buhari, Tuesday, declared “It is the reality that some 90 per cent of all Boko Haram’s victims have been Muslims. They include a copycat abduction of over 100 Muslim schoolgirls, along with their single…

By Akanimo Sampson The Red Chambers of Nigeria’s bicameral Legislature has started to explore the best possible means to give the security architecture of the country a shot at the elbow. To this end, Ahmad Lawan, Senate President, has inaugurated an 18-man ad-hoc panel of senators to look into the matter. The panel which was set up on Tuesday is saddled with the responsibility of recommending ways to improving the present security situation in the country. The Senate had last week, after exhaustive deliberations on the security situation in Nigeria resolved to set up the ad-hoc panel on Nigeria security…

By: Akakan Umoh Studies have shown that food is one of the basic needs of man. It is an essential thing that man needs during his stay on earth to survive. If you go to weddings, the kind of meals thrown away is enough to feed a whole village. Don’t be shocked, because it happens. Even you reading this could be guilty of this too. People prefer to waste food, forgetting that there are people out there that have barely eaten a square meals, that needs the food more than them. I can remember one incident. During one of my…

By Akanimo Sampson A Lassa fever war has erupted in Rivers State, the oil and gas capital of Nigeria, forcing the state government to take some tough measures in a seeming desperate bid to contain the spread of the epidemic in the big oil state. Chief of Staff to Governor Nyesom Wike, Chukwuemeka Woke, an engineer, who made the war against Lassa fever in the state known while declaring open a one-day sensitisation seminar on the fever for staffers of Government House, Port Harcourt, said in the last one week the state has not recorded any new cases following the maximum…

By: Ray Ekpu Nigeria has since independence established its reputation firmly as an import crazy country. We import almost anything from corn to cake and caviar and from mushrooms to manicure materials and from trolleys to toothpick. We have an exotic taste for imports. On balance we also do export something: crude oil, and a few other things. But when you crunch the export and import numbers we come tragically short or shortchanged. We are simply more of consumers and less of producers. But recently the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) did us a favour. It imported some words from Nigeria…

An octogenarian cultural music maestro in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria has passed into eternity, a family source has stated. Uko Akpan Ekpo Umana, the founder of the famous Uko Akpan Cultural Group, died at 88. Among his popular songs are Se Ukpono Se’jen Akpono Ette, Nse Agwo Ananam Adi Duko afon, Anyie Agwo Eku Abogho, Mkpa Asong anjen Abogho, Naira Udoji, and Edemne Ema Agwo Inogho Uko Akpan. Born in 1932 into Nto Ekpo Umana family of Ikot Obong in Afaha Obong, Abak local government area of Akwa Ibom State, Uko Akpan was a holder of a Doctor of Music…

By Akanimo Sampson Oyo State Government in South Western Nigeria has taken on the Attorney-General of the Federation and Justice Minister, Abubakar Malami, claiming that the decision of the minister on the local government crisis rocking the state is partisan. Malami’s counterpart in the state, Oyelowo Oyewo, a law professor, is insisting most of the minister’s actions in the affairs of Nigeria are partisan and not based on the Constitution, pointing out that many All Progressives Congress (APC)-controlled states are operating caretaker committees and dissolved elected local government leadership, “yet policemen have not been sent to enforce anybody’s rights as…

By Akanimo Sampson A civic group, Sustainable Development Institute (SDI), has begun to mobilise local people in Liberia and empowering them to resist a wave of land grabs in some parts of the country allegedly led by elites and concessioners. The group said Protecting Communities and Forests against a Surge in Land-grabs in Bomi, a project which is taking off in Tubmanburg, is a follow-up to its 2019 report on the situation in the county. That report found that the officials, with help from tribal chiefs and elders, possibly converted more than 9,000 acres of land in the Senjeh, Klay…

By: Israel Umoh Nigeria appears to be one huge-joke community where corrupt practices are rampant. Nigerians are the players and foreigners are the collaborators. A public office holder who swears by the Bible or Koran is undeterred in defrauding the system. A roadside trader or Keke operator can abet the practice provided this puts food on his table. In fact, the ghost left by the British colonial masters in handing over inflated population figures and skewed political structure to Nigerian operators is still haunting the hitherto united entity coupled with the fact that the operators who are naively accessory to…

By Akanimo Sampson Hundreds of native families in Kiryandongo, Uganda are being violently and forcefully evicted off their land by Great Season Company, owned by South Sudan nationals, Witness Radio Organisation says. According to the radio, the eviction is being backed by the Kiryandongo District Police. Witness Radio Organisation, witnessradio.org is a non-partisan and not-for-profit registered network of investigative and human rights reporters/writers using media leaning approaches with the main focus to promote economic, social and cultural rights and development in Uganda. Started in 2016 by a team of senior human rights and investigative journalists, the organisation uses Information Communication…