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Shehu Sani Mocks Federal Government Over Its Interest In The Russian-Ukraine Crisis While Northern Nigeria Is On Fire

Foreign Policy Human Rights & FreedomShehu Sani Mocks Federal Government Over Its Interest In The Russian-Ukraine Crisis While Northern Nigeria Is On Fire

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)March 1, 2022

Human rights activist and politician, Senator Shehu Sani has made a satirical statement that seems to be mocking the Nigerian government over its interest in the Russian-Ukraine crisis while bandits are ravaging lives and property in Northern Nigeria. The security situation in Nigeria is deteriorating. Northern Nigeria is bleeding with rapacious bandits attacking, killing, and abducting hapless people. The trending news every passing day is the killing of innocent people by bandits, who have continued...

Foreign Policy News4,000 Nigerians Stranded In Ukraine- Presidency

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)February 28, 2022

ABUJA — The Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media & Publicity) Garba Shehu has disclosed that 4,000 Nigerians are stranded in Ukraine and unable to cross its borders into neighbouring Poland. In a statement on Sunday night, Garba noted that Ukrainian police and security personnel are refusing to allow them to board buses and trains heading towards the Ukraine-Poland border. The statement reads: “While efforts to begin talks between Russia and Ukraine are underway,...

Law & Justice News18-Year-Old Girl Kidnap Teenager For Ritualists In Mubi

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)February 27, 2022

YOLA — An 18-year-old girl, Blessing John of Michika Local Government Area, Adamawa who abducted a 9-year-old Elkanah Samuel was arrested by the Police in Adamawa while eyeing a ritualist to sell a boy she kidnapped. Elkanah was declared missing on the 19th February 2022 by his parents and all effort to locate his whereabouts proved futile, until on the 21st February 2022 when the girl who abducted him was arrested with the boy in...

Foreign Policy NewsPoland Ambassador Assures Prof. Moghalu that Her Country is Open for Africans Fleeing Ukraine

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)February 27, 2022

AWKA — The Ambassador of Poland to Nigeria, Joanna Tarnawska has in a conversation with Prof. Kingsley Moghalu — retired career United Nations Diplomat, former Deputy Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, and Political Economy expert said that her country is open for Africans and Nigerians, seeking to take refuge in Poland, from Ukraine. The invasion of Ukraine by Russia has forced residents of Ukraine to seek refuge in nearby Poland. However, there have been...

Health MilitaryRegular Exercise Will Keep You Fit, Ready For War, NAF Tells Officers

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)February 26, 2022

LAGOS — Nigerian Air Force has tasked officers with the need for physical fitness for active operations. Hasan Abubakar, the Air Officer Commanding, Nigerian Air Force logistics command, charged the officers, airmen, and airwomen of the command to support their battle readiness by being physically fit to carry out combat operations. Abubakar who gave the charge, on Saturday at the force’s First Quarter Route March Exercise 2022, held at the Sam Ethan Base, Ikeja, Lagos, ...

Law & JusticeBillionaire Kidnapper, Two Others Jailed For Life

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)February 26, 2022

LAGOS — A High Court sitting in Ikeja has sentenced billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike, popularly called Evans, and two others to life imprisonment for conspiracy and kidnapping of a businessman, Donatus Duru. The presiding judge, Justice Hakeem Oshodi found Evans, Uche Amadi, and Okwuchukwu Nwachukwu guilty of a two-count charge of kidnapping the Managing Director of Maydon Pharmaceuticals Limited, Donatus Dunu. Handing down the sentence, Justice Oshodi noted the allocutors of the defence counsels, Olarewaju...

Foreign Policy News NigeriaWithdraw Your Troops From Ukraine – FG Tells Putin

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)February 26, 2022

ABUJA — The Federal Government has asked Russia to withdraw its troops from Ukraine and embrace diplomatic measures to address the current crisis involving both countries. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, made the call on behalf of the Federal Government of Nigeria on Friday after a meeting with the envoys of the G7 countries in Nigeria. Expressing worries over the Russian-Ukraine conflict with a call for peace to resolve the conflict, he said Nigeria...

National SecurityTight Security in Jos, Bassa Over By-election in Plateau

PilotnewsFebruary 26, 2022

JOS — There is a heavy presence of security personnel in Jos North and Bassa local government areas of Plateau for the ongoing by-election for Bassa/Jos North Federal Constituency. A reporter for the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) who visited some areas reports that a combined team of security personnel were stationed in various polling units and other strategic locations. Commissioner of Police in the state Batholomew Onyeka said he had deployed a good number...

Foreign Policy NewsNAN Set to Reopen East Africa Bureau in Addis Ababa

PilotnewsFebruary 24, 2022

ADDIS ABABA — The Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Mr. Buki Ponle, says efforts are being made to reopen the agency’s Bureau in Addis Ababa. Ponle made this known in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, when he paid a courtesy visit to Amb. Victor Adeleke, Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the African Union and Ambassador to Ethiopia and the Republic of Djibouti. He described the reopening of the office, which was closed down in...

Military NewsNCCSALW to Establish Zonal Headquarters In Enugu

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)February 23, 2022

ENUGU — A delegation of the National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (NCCSALW), led by the Agency’s National Coordinator, Rtd Major General Abba Dikko has announced plans to establish their Zonal Headquarters in Enugu. The National Coordinator revealed this move when he led his team on a courtesy visit to the Enugu State Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi at the Government House, Enugu on Tuesday. The National Centre for the Control of...

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