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The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has alleged that the Saraki-led Senate frustrated Buhari government’s efforts to bring insecurity to a halt.   MURIC’s Director, Ishaq Akintola in a statement released on Thursday April 8 alleged that there are anarchists whose main objective is to sabotage security facilities, debilitate the security agencies and …

Former Assistant Director of the Department of State Services (DSS), Dennis Amachree has disclosed that the agency alerted the police and Governor Hope Uzodinma of an impending attack on the Imo police command and prison facility a week before it occurred.   Amachree made the claim in an interview on a Channels Television …

Presidential aide, Lauretta Onochie, has said that the wailing of some Nigerians will not stop President Buhari from embarking on his medical trips   Lauretta said this while reacting to the criticism that has trailed the president’s decision to go to the UK for his routine medical checkup.   In …

Senator Shehu Sani this morning took to his Twitter handle to share a sarcastic tweet about political appointments.   He tweeted ”Surveyor General of the Federation was appointed last year from the South West—Arewa and Ohaneze refused to protest or even object.”   While some people saw the sarcasm in his …

Bashir El-Rufai, son of Kaduna state governor, Nasir El-Rufai, says a majority of people from the South East are not in support of the calls for secession from Nigeria. Members of the Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB have been spearheading the call for the region to secede from Nigeria.   …

The Nigerian Correctional Service has said that six inmates who escaped during the attack at the correction facility in Owerri, Imo state on Monday, April 5, have voluntarily returned while 35 others refused to escape from custody during the attack.   The acting Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS, …

The leader of a bandit group in Zamfara state has been killed by officers attached to operation Puff Adder II, with an AK47, a military uniform, and a motorcycle recovered from him.   A statement by Mohammed Shehu, the spokesman of the state police command, said police operatives were on a routine …

Governor David Umahi has again accused herdsmen of being behind the attack which left 15 people dead in communities in Ishielu LGA of Ebonyi state.   The Ebonyi state Governor who made the allegation during Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo’s visit to the state on Sunday April 4, said the herders “deserted” the affected communities …

A chilling video of a Nigerian mum, Mrs. Victoria Agori, sharing gory details of how her 21-year-old son, Daniel, was allegedly shot dead in front of her on the 11th of May, 2019, by officers of the Inspector-General of Police Monitoring Unit in Alu, Rivers state, after they accused him of being …

Yinka Odumakin has died from Covid-19 related complications.   Yinka, who was the National Publicity Secretary of the pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere, died at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital isolation centre on Saturday morning, April 3.   His wife, Joe Okei-Odumakin confirmed the news of his passing. Mourning her husband, …