Day: May 5, 2021

FG Claims Some Religious, Political Leaders Planning To Overthrow Buhari

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Mr Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity The federal government of Nigeria has claimed that some “disgruntled religious and past political leaders” together with what they called “external forces” are trying to overthrow the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. The special adviser to the president on media and publicity, Femi Adesina, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday saying that it has “unimpeachable evidence” of a plan to recruit leaders of some ethnic groups and politicians to issue a vote of no confidence on Buhari…

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Imo, Zamfara States Get New CPs In Latest Police Posting

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Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), Mr Frank Mba As part of the strategies to assert himself as well as tackle the spate of insecurity in the country, the acting Inspector-General of Police, Mr Usman Baba, has requested the deployment of Mr Abutu Yaro as the new Commissioner of Police (CP) in charge of Imo State. Recently, Imo State has been engulfed in series of crisis especially since the state Governor, Hope Uzodimma claimed that he invited the military to engage members of the Eastern Security Network (ESN) and IPOB members…

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Insecurity: Gunmen Kidnap Miyetti Allah Leader In Kogi

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Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) Chairman in Kogi State, Wakili Damina, has been abducted by gunmen according to reports by NAN. Adamu Abubakar, Kogi MACBAN secretary, said Damina was abducted on April 30 by some armed men dressed in army uniform. He said the abductors, numbering about eight, came in a white bus at about 12:00 noon to “forcefully” take away the chairman from his house in Chikara village, Kogi LGA. Abubakar said he was informed of the incident by the younger brother of Damina. The secretary…

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Banditry & Kidnapping Are Not Federal Offences, Lai Mohammed Replies PDP

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Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Mr Lai Mohammed has responded to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for displaying what he called ‘gross ignorance’ that kidnapping, and banditry are not federal offences. The Minister who spoke at a media briefing in Abuja, said it was shocking that PDP who ruled the nation for 16 years was ignorant of the legal structure in the country. Mohammed was responded to an allegation by the PDP that kidnappers and bandits were not being brought to book by the Federal Government. He said, “The…

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It is Boko Haram That Kidnapped Greenfield Students, Not Bandits – Sheikh Gumi

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As the Nigerian security chiefs and the government continue to beat about the bush regarding the abduction of Greenfield University in Kaduna State, the controversial prominent Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has emphatically stated that the students of Greenfield were abducted by Boko Haram insurgents, and not bandits. As we speak, most of the students have been murdered by their kidnappers and are still threatening to kill the remaining 17 if the government does not pay a ransom of N100million. Already, reports have it that some desperate parents of the…

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