Tinubu pedals down on sanctions against Niger as junta consolidates power

The hostility between West African countries Nigeria and Niger might cease in the coming days as President Bola Tinubu has directed the opening of Nigeria’s land and air borders with the Niger. The borders connecting the two neighbouring countries were closed in August 2023 following a military coup in Niger which saw democratically-elected President Mohamed Bazoum ousted and locked up on 26 July 2023. The Nigerian government also imposed other far-reaching sanctions on Niger, including...

Hisbah arrests Muslims eating in public during Ramadan fasting period

The Islamic police in Nigeria’s northwestern state of Kano, alias Hisbah, arrested 11 Muslims on Tuesday who were seen eating in public despite the ongoing Ramadan fast. Kano, with its majority Muslim population, operates under Sharia law alongside the country’s secular legislation. Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset during Ramadan, which began on March 11 to end on April 9. Hisbah spokesperson Lawal Fagge reported the arrests on Wednesday. He said ten men were arrested...

Sheik Gumi advises Tinubu to dialogue with terrorists as insecurity worsens

A prominent Islamic scholar in Nigeria, Sheik Ahmad Abubakar Gumi has advised the Nigerian government to hold talks with the terror groups holding communities in the country siege. Terror attacks swept through Kaduna, Borno and Sokoto States in the past week. No group claimed responsibility for any of the recent attacks and abductions, and the security agencies have made no statements. Government at the federal and state levels are overwhelmed by the attacks. As the...

Two Victims Confirmed After Fire Ravaged the  Borno IDP Camp

A fire that swept through the Muna Alamdari Internally Displaced Persons, IDP, camp in Maiduguri, Borno State capital city, on Tuesday morning killed two children. The fire also razed all the over 1,000 tents occupied by the IDPs and their families, including four blocks of 12 classrooms in the camp, according to Nahum Kenneth, spokesman of the Borno State Police Command. A boy and a girl aged five years and four years, respectively, were killed...

“Give herders land to graze freely”, Tinubu tells governors

President Bola Tinubu has called on state governors to provide land for grazing reserves for nomadic Fulani pastoralists to end the years-long violent herders–farmers clashes in the country. Rising conflict between herders and farmers in Nigeria is already six times deadlier than Boko Haram’s insurgency in the North East and banditry in the North West. The violence has claimed over 60,000 lives even as farmers have abandoned their farms because of the daily kidnappings and...

Without presenting facts, FFK claims western nations funding terrorism in Nigeria

A former minister of aviation in Nigeria, Femi Fani-Kayode blames “international criminal cartels, foreign governments and intelligence agencies” for the terror attacks being witnessed in Nigeria that have seen thousands including school children forcefully taken from their homes to deep forests. Fani-Kayode said on Sunday that the West is the “hidden hand” behind Nigeria’s numerous travails, accusing it of a long-term conspiracy to “literally end our nation” because they feel threatened that Nigeria’s growth would...

First Lady Oluremi Tinubu call for death penalty against Terrorists, kidnappers

Nigeria’s first lady, Oluremi Tinubu is deeply saddened by the spate of kidnappings in the country that she has called for the death of any apprehended bandit. A wave of kidnapping swept through Nigeria last week with the abduction of more than 270 school children by Fulani radical Islamic terrorists in Kuriga village, Chikun LGA of Kaduna State on Thursday, 7 March. The next day, Mrs Tinubu, during a meeting with the national women leaders...

Unknown gunmen kill teenage herder, 50 cows in Plateau

Bandits murdered a 17-year-old herder in crisis-torn Plateau State on Tuesday. Dozens of cattle and sheep were also victims of the unprovoked attack. Local media reported Thursday that the attack was in Barkin Ladi county of the Northcentral state. The bandits rode into Fanzo village on motorbikes and opened fire on a group of herdsmen grazing cattle. “They killed one of the herdsmen and injured another. The gunmen also took away more than 50 of...

Policeman and trader killed during bank robbery in Anyigba

A police officer and a civilian were shot dead in Anyigba, the commercial district of Dekina LGA in Kogi State, on Thursday evening during a chilling bank robbery. The heavily armed gunmen stormed Anyigba, 116 kilometres from Kogi’s capital city Lokoja at about 5:00 p.m. Channels Television reported that they made a brief stop at Anyigba town police station, and gunned down a police officer while disarming others before heading to the banks. The banks...

Ngalale: Tinubu means well, Nigerians should support him

Ajuri Ngalale, President Bola Tinubu’s official spokesperson and his special adviser  on media and publicity, has assured Nigerians that Tinubu is working round the clock to improve their lots. Tinubu extended the reign of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, with his election victory in February 2023 after promising to improve the livelihoods of the country’s more than 200 million people. He has implemented a series of wide-ranging reforms aimed at revitalising growth in Nigeria...

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