Aside Chad President: Meet Other Longest Serving African Leaders

NewsObituaryWest AfricaAside Chad President: Meet Other Longest Serving African Leaders

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)April 21, 2021

After holding on to power for three decades, the President of Chad, Idriss Deby Itno died on Tuesday after sustaining injuries at the battlefield with rebels. The Army made the shock announcement, a day after the 68-year-old was re-elected to a sixth term in office. Aside Deby, here is the list of other longest-serving leaders in the African continent. Some of them reportedly changed the constitution, crushed opposition and used fear and violence to maintain...

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FG Announces Date to Roll Out Digital Switch Over In Lagos, Kano, Others

NewsNigeriaTelecommunicationTelevision & RadioFG Announces Date to Roll Out Digital Switch Over In Lagos, Kano, Others

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)April 19, 2021

The Federal Government has announced the date it will switch over from analogue to digital in Lagos, Kano, and three other states. It added that the Digital Switchover will commence in five states between April and August, the exercise will thereafter kick off in the remaining states. This was disclosed by the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed when he led the members of his Ministerial Task Force on DSO on Saturday on an...

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‘They Told Us Not To Run’ Survivors of Boko Haram Attack Narrate Ordeal

Boko HaramNewsNigeria‘They Told Us Not To Run’ Survivors of Boko Haram Attack Narrate Ordeal

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)April 19, 2021

Residents of Damasak in the northern part of Borno State have given an account of their ordeal in the latest Boko Haram attack on the town that left at least 12 persons dead and several injured. The incident which happened on Tuesday was the sixth in two weeks in the chain of insurgent attacks on Damasak, the headquarters of Mobbar Local Government Area of the state. “What we saw with our eyes on that day...

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ENDSARS Lekki Killings: Eye Witness Presents Live Bullets Shot By Soldiers, Other Evidences

NewsPoliceENDSARS Lekki Killings: Eye Witness Presents Live Bullets Shot By Soldiers, Other Evidences

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)April 19, 2021

One of the coordinators of the #EndSARS protest, Sarah Ibrahim, has said she witnessed how soldiers and later policemen shot innocent and unarmed protesters at the Lekki toll gate. She disclosed this on Saturday in her testimony at the resumed sitting of the Lagos State Judicial Panel on Restriction for victims of SARS and other related matters. The witness had told the panel at a previous sitting that she was at the protest ground in...

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NewsStates IGR Fell from N1.33tn in 2019 to N1.31 Trillion by the End of 2020 – Report

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)April 16, 2021

States Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) fell from N1.33tn as of the end of 2019 to N1.31tn as of the end of 2020. It fell by N20bn. This was disclosed by the National Bureau of Statistics in its report published on ‘Internally Generated Revenue at state level for fourth quarter and full-year 2020’. The report revealed that the Q4, 2020 IGR for states and FCT also fell to N335.25bn from N338.57bn recorded in Q3, 2020. According...

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PDP Rejects Buhari’s Statement on the Continuity ‘of His Misrule’

NewsNigeriaPoliticsPDP Rejects Buhari’s Statement on the Continuity ‘of His Misrule’

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)April 16, 2021

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has reminded President Muhammadu Buhari that his tenure as president ends on March 29, 2023. This was the opposition’s reactions to Buhari’s response while answering questions from journalists on his administration where the President said Nigerians should expect continuity. Buhari made the statement on his return from London where he had spent two weeks undergoing medical checkup. While reacting to the comment on Thursday, the PDP rejected the President’s “declaration...

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18 Terrorist Leaders, Other Fighters Killed In Damasak – Army

Crime & SecurityNews18 Terrorist Leaders, Other Fighters Killed In Damasak – Army

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)April 16, 2021

A senior commander of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), Bukar Gana Fitchmeram, known as Abu Aisha, and many of his fighters, who were on a revenge mission at Damasak, were killed by the troops on Thursday. The Nigeria Army said that the terrorist and his fighters fell to the firepower of the troops as they made a comeback following the killings of 12 high-value ISWAP commanders in Mobbar Local Government Area of Borno...

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We Have Arrested Over 2000 Suspects, Seized N75bn Worth Drugs In Three Months – NDLEA

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaWe Have Arrested Over 2000 Suspects, Seized N75bn Worth Drugs In Three Months – NDLEA

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)April 15, 2021

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has said that it has arrested not less than 2000 suspects in the last three months. The Chairman of the agency, Brigadier-General Buba Marwa, added that over 300 convictions have been secured and his agency has seized illicit drugs worth N75 billion within the period under review. He said this on Thursday when he paid a courtesy visit to the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, at...

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Senate Honors the Victims of Attacks In Ebonyi

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaSenate Honors the Victims of Attacks In Ebonyi

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)April 15, 2021

Nigerian lawmakers have condemned the recent killings by gunmen reported being herdsmen in Ebonyi State. The Senators also called on the Federal Government and authorities in the state to put appropriate measures in place to forestall the recurrence of such attacks. These are part of the resolutions of the lawmakers when the issue came up during a plenary on Wednesday at the Red Chamber of the National Assembly in Abuja. The Senators also resolved to...

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Governors, Speakers Appeal to Judicial Workers to Call off Strike

LabourLaw & JusticeNewsNigeriaGovernors, Speakers Appeal to Judicial Workers to Call off Strike

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)April 15, 2021

The Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) and Conference of Speakers of State Assemblies, on Thursday, in Abuja, appealed to striking judicial workers to call off their ongoing strike, in the interest of the nation. Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State, who is also the Deputy Chairman of the NGF, made the appeal when he fielded questions from State House correspondents after he led officials of the Conference of Speakers of State Assemblies to the office of...

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