Year: 2018

President Muhammadu Buhari has once again expressed his administration’s committment to end every act of killing in the country. The globallly recognized first President in Africa who earned the sobriquet from the United States President, Donald Trump re-affirmed his committeememt to the safety of lives and properties in Nigeria after receiving briefing from the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General TY Buratai at the state house this evening. President Buhari who commended the efforts of the Chief of Army Staff in aligning with his vision on security, took to his…

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The New Initiative for Credible Leadership (NICreL) has backed the former US Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. John Campbell who said that the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) is by affiliation, doctrines, actions and temperament a reincarnation of the deadly Boko Haram sect. The group said the IMN has displayed every attribute of the Boko Haram terrorist group during its early stage and Nigeria cannot afford to make such gamble again. Addressing journalists in Abuja, Reverend Samson Onwu, the NICreL Executive Secretary, said the IMN should therefore be declared as a…

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The recent attempt by the United Nations International Children Fund (UNICEF) through its Global Horizontal Notes (GHN) report accusing the Nigerian Military of violating the rights of children in the North East, has been described as a grand plot aimed at destabilising the military operations in the North East, a reliable source has informed this paper. The source stated that the accusation from UNICEF, through its Nigerian office is the handiwork of some international agents, working in collaboration with some powerful interest aimed at influencing international perception against the soaring…

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The United Nations Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF), and other International organizations have been accused of frustrating the Nigerian Army over its fight against terrorists in the country. A Coalition Civil Society Organisations on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution in Nigeria in its first quarter report released in Abuja on the ongoing war against insurgency in Nigeria noted that after undertaking review of the ongoing-war on terrorism by the Nigerian military observed that UNICEF and other international organizations have been frustrating the efforts of the army through series of blackmails.  …

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Respected elder and Benue community leader, Chief John Apochi, has fired back at Benue clannish  leaders over their recent attack on Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lt. Gen. Tukur Yusufu Buratai in  the ongoing clashes between herders and farmers in the state. The tribal leaders of Benue state had recently slammed Buratai, who called for a review of the state’s grazing law in order to give room for lasting peace in the state. Speaking yesterday through their Chairman Chief Edward Ujege, the leaders under the aegis Mdzough U Tiv (MUT),…

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Former Vice President and presidential aspirant of the People’s Democratic Party(PDP), Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, has described Cross River State Governor, Prof Ben Ayade as an epitome of good governance. Atiku stated this, Monday, at the state executive council chambers, Calabar when he led his team including former governors of Ogun and Imo states, Otunba Gbenga Daniel and Chief Achike Udenwa respectively on a courtesy visit to Governor Ayade. He commended the governor for being broad-minded in his approach to governance, which has ensured peace and tranquility in this state. According…

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Initiative for Transparency, IT, an anti-corruption organisation has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to as a matter of urgency investigate the Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom over with it termed ‘serial appropriation of the state funds and abuse of power.’ IT said the call became imperative so as draw the attention of the international community to the fact that Benue State was dying from the inside slowly as a result of non-stop theft of the state’s resources on an industrial scale by Ortom and his lackeys.…

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Mrs. Janet Gbadebo , wife of the deputy editor, LEADERSHIP Friday, Mr Bode Gbadebo on Friday passed on in a Lagos hospital. She was 40 years old. Her husband, Mr Gbadebo who broke the news to this reporter, said she died in the early hours of Friday morning. She was treating High Blood Pressure which resulted into complications. According to him, she was initially admitted at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) in Ikeja, Lagos until Thursday morning when JOHESU chapter of the hospital embarked on strike. He said,…

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