Month: May 2018

…As governor solicits prayers for leaders The Aso Rock Chapel yesterday in Abuja honoured Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State with a presentation of a “Legacy Bible,” in appreciation of his propagation and deepening of the gospel, not only in Bayelsa State but throughout the nation. The chapel praised the governor for making the word of God the foundation of his government and urged other leaders to emulate him. A press statement signed by the Governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Francis Ottah Agbo said the “Legacy Bible” was presented to the…

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…

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…

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…

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.  …

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),…